As the smallest in that cohort by a wide margin, Santa Monica looked like an outlier from the beginning, but its modest size also made its proposal more viable, given its stated ambition of not just breaking down overall quality of life into a set of measurable factors, but actually going out and measuring them in its population of 93,000.
Even Steve Bannon, Trump's recently departed chief strategist and one-time National Security Council member, doesn't think a military solution would be viable to halt the nuclear ambitions of North Korea.
Separatist leaders make no secret of their ambition to carve out a viable, self-contained entity encompassing the three eastern oblasts of Donetsk, Luhansk and Kharkiv that could, in time, become an independent state.
He retains ambitions and wishes to remain a viable national figure in a post-Karzai Afghanistan.
Over the past few years, Mr. Fini has moved from the far right toward more moderate political conservatism in his ambition to position himself as the most viable alternative to Mr. Berlusconi in the party leadership.
Merging Five with Channel 4 has been mooted as a way to create a viable public service broadcasting alternative to the BBC, which is the ambition of Lord Carter as part of his Digital Britain review.
But United States officials have reservations about South Korea's ambitions, fearing that the project may not be economically viable, and that the rocket technology could be put to military uses elsewhere.
But United States officials have reservations about South Korea's ambitions, fearing that the project may not be economically viable, and that the rocket technology could be exported to countries who may use it for military applications.
There are benefits to spreading democracy in the Middle East, but hegemonic ambitions are sabotaging the shorter-term project of turning Iraq into a viable state.
As Curry found, entrepreneurship is a viable option for veterans, offering the opportunity to apply the skills developed in the army – resilience, ambition and leadership.
