The once ambitious American plans for ending the war are now being replaced by the far more modest goal of setting the stage for the Afghans to work out a deal among themselves in the years after most Western forces depart, and to ensure Pakistan is on board with any eventual settlement.
Amongst students and graduates, ex-pats and homebirds, there is a harmony of feeling for a place where form and function are inextricably linked, and the once ambitious concept of a space purpose-built for creative freedom is now a necessary part of the landscape.
Over all, the once-ambitious goal of a major expansion has shrunk to a plan for renovation.
Since January 2009, SEIU has spent millions more battling other unions than in organizing new workers, and while SEIU holds protests against Wall Street and the Bank of America, the union has sharply curtailed its once ambitious plans for organizing in the South and Southwest, and for organizing the millions of unorganized janitors and health care workers across the nation.
Economics is, at best, a multidimensional, evidence-based craft, alert to all the influences on human behaviour, at once ambitious in scope and modest in its claims for what we can ever predict in human affairs.
Given the economic challenges that Time Inc. and the rest of publishing face back in New York, the one-year project in Detroit seems all at once ambitious, oddly timed and ironic.
Now, in a reversal that has stripped a once ambitious program to its core, Oregon has pared back the insurance, and removed prescription drug coverage for things like mental illness and drug addiction.
As a child growing up in suburban Norbury, and the son of a family who (Amis once told an interviewer) "had slipped a rung... [and were] frightened of toppling into the working class", he was immediately seized by feelings that were at once ambitious and vulnerable.
Ahold's 2007 sale of most of its U.S. operations to private equity firms highlighted the nearly complete abandonment, under pressure from dissatisfied minority share owners, of its once ambitious globalization strategy.
He was an idealist, at once ambitious and determinedly naïve.
At once ambitious and charmingly naïve, they are intent on nothing less than a full conquest of America, and to achieve this lofty goal, they roam every inch of New York -- with an electronic dictionary.
