Alas, he had time to make only a beginning of that last ambition.
Others think that too sanguine, and reckon that Jacques Chirac, France's president, is determined to resist American pressure and to isolate Tony Blair, the British prime minister, within Europe.New versus old?That last ambition may be too much of a stretch.
This was his last ambition: after a lifetime of atheism, it was his plan, he wrote in his 1982 autobiography, "My Last Sigh," to shock his friends by having a priest appear and, to their horror, "make my confession, ask for absolution for my sins and receive unction.
So fine, in fact, that he has one last ambition.
There's still time to talk him out of this last ambition.
Our jury commended its consummate use of metaphor to evoke a "world of precarious flight and desperate, last-ditch ambition, in which everything is falling; nothing is secure.
The success of Il crociato in Egitto (1824) throughout Europe, including at Paris in 1825, persuaded Meyerbeer, who was already thirty-three years old, to fulfil at last his ambition to base himself in Paris, and to seek a suitable libretto for an opera to be launched there.
He also said his "humble but strong" foreign policy would improve America's relations with the rest of the world.These ambitions lasted about five minutes.
Lennon wants a job that matches his ambition and hunger to build something new and lasting.
That was 12 years ago, and even he wasn't sure whether his ambition would last this long.
