Opponents condemn such percentage plans, because one school's A may denote less knowledge than another's B. Yet this valid criticism fails to ask what qualities of ambition, discipline and sacrifice take youths to the top ranks of troubled schools.
The author can't really tell us much that is new or important about John Lindsay's character, or his judgment, or the quality of his ambitions, or his po tential for further growth, or the sort of men he has surrounded him self with.
In China, the new government under President Xi Jinping has promised to rein in pollution as part of its effort to assuage the quality of life ambitions of a burgeoning middle class.
On the other hand this draws our attention to the issue of critical mass: what is the basis for challenging the quality of our ambitions and actions, or in other words, which assessment criteria are relevant and who should be involved in the assessment?
"It's immediately considered as positive recognition of the quality and ambition of the scientist," says Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, president of the ERC.
Nonetheless, the strategic quality of Swift's ambition comes through in everything written about her.
According to Montesquieu, it should seem to be merely a negative quality; the absence only of ambition and avarice; and he thinks that what he thus advances is confirmed by the unanimous testimony of historians.
If that food is sometimes overly orchestrated, the quality and ambition of what comes out of the kitchen are commendable.
There is a serious disconnection between the quality and ambition of the cooking, and the front of house – largely because there is no front of house.
Burns is both a symbol of the essential value of non-commercial television and an example of what can be achieved in terms of quality and ambition.
