In Federalist No. 51, James Madison famously pondered the circumstances that warrant a government in which "ambition must be made to counteract ambition".
In particular, he expressed his concerns about a return to a risk adverse theatre culture in which ambition is the first casualty.
What better show to test ambition's mettle than one in which ambition is its core accelerant?
Turkey, which has ambitions to be the regional gas hub, has bolstered Gazprom's ambitions.
Page after page is an Ozymandian landscape in which grand ambitions rest at the edge of oblivion.
So Mr. Pfeiffer seemed an auspicious choice for the award, which harbors ambitions of becoming the American Turner Prize.
Having only just spent $1.7 billion on its new terminal, Singapore, which has ambitions to become a regional gas-trading hub, is already planning a second.
But more often than not, "The Tempest" has been a dramatic island on which musical ambitions have been shipwrecked as surely as the denizens of the Neapolitan court.
Two areas stand out on that list: the Northeast corridor from Boston to Washington and Californiaa, which has ambitions to build a high-speed rail system from San Francisco and Sacramento to San Diego.
Petrobras, which has ambitions of surpassing ExxonMobil as the world's largest publicly traded oil company, is investing more than $200 billion to meet its goals.
