It was life-changing: we fulfilled ambitions that had been gnawing away at us for years.
Whether Mr. Waksal's comments will prove to be hyperbole or fulfilled ambitions may depend on acquisition acumen.
Diamond shares soared as the company appeared to fulfill ambitions to grow from a walnut co-operative to a global player in salty treats.
Such people did not have to go.They earned decent livings, fulfilled ambitions, enjoyed adventures or found husbands in places far from home.
"What we have, what we wish we had — ambitions fulfilled, ambitions disappointed, investments won, investments lost, elections won, elections lost — these things may occupy our attention, but they do not define us," he said.
How revealing was his recent Liberty University commencement speech, in which he describes the worldly dreams and challenges we all face as "ambitions fulfilled, ambitions disappointed... investments won, investments lost... elections won, elections lost".
Ray's year at Hornsey College of Art emerges as more influential than is usually thought, leaving him with a lifelong (and only partially fulfilled) ambition to make films.
It is a mark of the novel's soaring and largely fulfilled ambition that McCann just keeps rolling out new people, deftly linking each to the next, as his story moves toward its surprising and deeply affecting conclusion.
As City, owned since 2008 by Sheikh Mansour of Abu Dhabi, pondered fulfilling its ambitions, the agreement was renegotiated last year.
