She whisked like Cinderella from room to room, showing off the carved mahogany fireplace, soaring ceilings, and sunken bath -- still agog at her good fortune, and as much astonished by her daughter's persistent ambition.
Two days later, Secretary of State Colin Powell, appearing before a closed hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, also cited Iraq's attempt to obtain uranium from Niger as evidence of its persistent nuclear ambitions.
That collective desire — paired with Mr. Bloomberg's persistent personal ambition — still lacked a public service rationale, but then came the decimation of the New York financial sector.
There was a nervousness that a startup might overreach itself and promise more than it could realistically deliver but Persistent Peril's ambitions were grounded and are being achieved.
They also show the enduring character of such dreams to create a central archive and to erect a monument to American Jewish life as well as the persistent conflicts such ambitions provoked.
Why is there such a persistent gap between ambition and performance?
The business secretary began life in Labour and has never disguised his discomfort about aspects of his party's marriage with the Tories, particularly on immigration policy, fuelling persistent rumours of leadership ambitions.
But that probably says more about the persistent failure of political ambition than it does about the value to children of mastering a stringed instrument.
Mr. Talele's misfortune, and that of many other farmers here, is a grim reminder of a persistent fact: India, despite its ambitions as an emerging economic giant, still struggles to feed its 1.1 billion people.
And there is persistent scepticism about its political ambitions from Western powers and some ordinary Egyptians.
And that is by design, part of a considered effort to address the challenges that it, along with many other museums, face: how to appeal to a new generation in a climate of persistent financial pressure and the ambition to grow, to do more, to expand its audience.
