Cardiff's officials are in ebullient mood, seeing the summit as their big chance to project their town as one of Europe's leading cities.This ambition is likely to be greeted with derision in most of the rest of Britain.
"It is therefore extremely disappointing that the government has today removed a world-leading ambition for all new homes to be zero carbon from 2016".
The United States had nearly completed establishing control over its territories on the North American continent, leading American ambitions to stretch beyond its shores.
For eight years, Bill Clinton was a natural to lead a nation swept in workaholic frenzy -- a huffing, puffing mass of cholesterol and ambition, leading the country as if it were the world's biggest aerobics class.
"We are leading Europe in ambition!" said the secretary of state, the Lib Dem Ed Davey.
At a time when urban planners in the West frown on hulking high-rises as forbidding, Mr. Mori presents a new Asian urban sensibility, where architecture reflects soaring economic ambition, leading to mighty projects that dwarf the individual.
Dilthey gives the example of strong ambition leading someone to gradually overcome shyness in public.
For her, writing was a hobby, that became something of an obsession, leading to an ambition to write a book in the adult romance genre for a niche readership.
In contrast, many VCs in Silicon Valley thought Skype was amazing and liked the sheer level of ambition, leading them to ask when the London, U.K. and Tallinn, Estonia-based company was planning to relocate.
