To many global viewers the idea would have seemed fanciful, yet Okon's ambitions in that sense were fulfilled.
And Summerhayes's ambition is not fanciful over-confidence, it is a distinct possibility.
The ambition was not entirely fanciful; there were Christian communities in India, founded according to legend by St. Thomas the Apostle.
Both the other British boats on the water yesterday also made it through to their respective finals, though any ambition beyond bronze looks fanciful for Bill Lucas and Sam Townsend, in double sculls, or the ladies' eight, who only survived a repêchage that sieved out just one of five crews.
GB are aiming for a top-eight finish, an ambition that does not seem so fanciful after a recent 3-2 win over Peru, a side ranked 17 in the world.
Such a scenario may be fanciful for now, but perhaps Guan is due credit for at least showing ambition.
Unfortunately, the ambition of U.S. policy appears to stretch no further than the somewhat fanciful hope that President Sisi can somehow return Egypt to the stable status quo of the Mubarak era.
If it is not, the chancellor's ambition to achieve a budget surplus in this parliament will once again look fanciful.
It would be easy to dismiss the rumor as being fanciful, and many already have, however any serious Google watcher knows that Google's ambitions seem to have very little or no bounds.
