The Emerson String Quartet has undertaken so many big projects over the years — Beethoven, Bartok, Mendelssohn and Shostakovich cycles, most notably — that when it offers a conventional program, it can seem as if the ensemble is setting adventure and ambition aside and taking it easy.
But now he has set those ambitions aside.
A set-up that once had quixotic visions of competing with the best teams on the planet following the promise of the 2014 World Cup must set global ambitions aside for now and prove it can dominate its region in this summer's Gold Cup.
But when a full-time investigator position arose, she set her academic ambitions aside and "jumped at the chance" to apply for the job.
He insisted that Iran "set aside ambitions for a nuclear weapon".
He also said it was "in the world's interests for Iran to set aside ambitions for a nuclear weapon".
Hobbled by debt, most of it run up financing new digital mobile phone services that have yet to pay off, British Telecommunications has set aside ambitions of becoming a global telecommunications player.
So he set aside ambitions to become a coach and began the process that eventually led to Argentina joining New Zealand, Australia and South Africa in the Rugby Championship, the southern hemisphere version of the Six Nations, as well as masterminding his country's first professional side, in Super Rugby.
And from the dribs and drabs of information we've got about her interests, it seems that she is setting aside her earlier ambition to be a pediatric cardiologist and moving in a more political direction.
A year later, Mr. Azoff set aside his ambition to "fight clout with clout," and Live Nation and Ticketmaster unveiled the mother of all music industry mergers.
There are Eric Cantors everywhere — reckless baby boomer politicians for whom no crisis is too serious to set aside political ambition and ideology.
