It forms an intimate bond that engages ambition, achievement, competition, criticism, fear, failure, reconciliation, growth, renewal.
Henceforth, participation in public affairs became the supreme occupation engaging the ambition of Greek man; it was no longer in athletics and elegant leisure activities that his valour, his desire to assert himself and to triumph, would find expression but rather in political action.
Given that we have emasculated our manufacturing base and that we are slowly realising the dangers of leveraging our future on an overreliance on the financial, don't we seriously need to build a society that engages wider ambitions than those measured in conventional terms?
He compares China's maritime policy with continental powers in the past that also engaged in maritime ambitions, and asserts that its naval ambitions will be a litmus paper to test US China cooperation but at the same time will be constrained by its continental insecurity.
But here the inchoate ambition to engage viewers succeeds.
They see it as a wilful surrender of any ambition to engage with voters who abandoned the party in 2010 and 2015.
There is a window of opportunity for NGOs to get in there and capitalise on the willingness to engage and the frustrated ambition of the private sector, says Bulloch. "But that window isn't open for ever.
Rembrandt's Eyes was originally published 15 years ago, but the ambition to engage with the artist's life and work went back at least another decade to my earlier book, The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age, when I deliberately shut him out as a misleading Great Exception.
So Bilgi became a sort of third track, as "the only education-led artistic resource where the ambition was to engage artists," Ms. Aksoy said.
Two winter-season entertainments — "Haywire," starring the dark-eyed martial-arts specialist Gina Carano, and "Contraband," with the minimalist but inexorable Mark Wahlberg — have no greater ambition than to engage our dreams of behaving badly.
But, for the past 50 years, Wheaton has been engaged in a project of astonishing ambition.
