But in less than two years, Mr. Seidenberg has been eclipsed in ambition by Edward E. Whitacre Jr., the longtime Bell executive who engineered SBC Communications' takeover of AT&T last year.
Do your travel ambitions eclipse your bank account?
After a while though, he realised that his literary ambitions eclipsed notes on designer stubble.
But in showing a man whose career has been guided by principle, advanced by fearlessness and derailed when his political ambitions eclipsed what he knew to be right, the film says as much about Washington's maverick as it does about the impotent Congress he's leaving behind.
In an unbeaten decade of dominance Brian O'Driscoll's capacity to crush red-rose ambitions has eclipsed even the haunting figure of All Black Jonah Lomu in English nightmares.
Oblivious to the duplicity of such lavish offers, Galleria allows ambition to eclipse her ideals, and in between bragging sessions at school, she starts assessing her co-performers with a cool, critical eye.
But whatever else Mr. Madoff's game was, it was certainly this: The first worldwide Ponzi scheme — a fraud that lasted longer, reached wider and cut deeper than any similar scheme in history, entirely eclipsing the puny regional ambitions of Charles Ponzi, the Boston swindler who gave his name to the scheme nearly a century ago.
The nation-state allowed for undertakings, like the investigation of space, that eclipsed what private ambition could achieve.
The twin articles of independent Ireland's faith, Catholicism and nationalism, were eclipsed by material ambition: the desire to get on, to improve one's station in life.
But I'm weary and wary of politicians whose ambitions precede and eclipse any serious, necessary preparation for the office they seek.
But after its defeat last November, and given the high improbability that any sort of comprehensive immigration reform will progress this year, her career ambitions are necessarily eclipsed by the simple goal of remaining in the United States.
