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Third, Race to the Top treated education as a "system" rather than as a collection of discrete "silos." Whereas past reform efforts generally targeted one element, Race to the Top asked states to build comprehensive and coherent education agendas across four key pillars or "assurances." That ambitiousness was risky and bold, and it had downsides (read on).

Bearing in mind the ambitiousness of the dam project, Belhaj was keen to seek assurances from Lebanese officials that the plan enjoyed broad support to quell concerns among the bank's authorizing board that the country lacked political will.

The prevalent view of Peckinpah's Garrett --I've argued it myself--is that he was depicting in the character much of what he worried about, feared, or hated in himself: his abusiveness, his ambitiousness, his personal corruptibility, his spiritual emptiness, his own capacity for violence (notably toward women), his attraction to the sordid, his fear that he had sold himself out, his increasing isolation from family and old friends, and of course his alcoholism.

Finally, they considered the scope of innovations necessary to replace the Carnegie Unit, the ambitiousness and uncertainties associated with these tasks, and the vast array of practical problems that would need to be solved.

That said, in spite of--or perhaps because of--its ambitiousness, Media, Society, World: Social Theory and Media Practice is lacking in certain regards.

What was most impressive, after the sheer ambitiousness of the main work, was the formal and intellectual coherence of Rudquist's art as she moved between functional and nonfunctional, pedestal and wall, individual and multi-element works.

Ambitiousness: Difficult optical configuration, grand scope of project, courageous modifications

Some consider it a ggold standardh or g21st centuryh FTA because of its prospective number of participants, its scope, the breadth of non-traditional issues it tackles, its incorporation of labor and environmental standards, and its ambitiousness relative to other conceivable alternatives such as the World Trade Organization (WTO).

The essence of the issue here is that we have to commit ourselves to the virtue of pride--the virtue of upholding all of the virtues all of the time--the virtue of moral ambitiousness. (6) Contrary to the tenets of fantasy philosophies (such as religion and Kantianism), moral perfection is not only possible, it is also necessary if you want to make your life the best it can be.

"It taps into ambitiousness, even materialism," Cohen said, posing the question:

Karissa Kruse, who took over as the group's president in March 2013, acknowledged the plan's ambitiousness but said she is confident the economic, environmental and social benefits of sustainability will convince the county's 1,800 growers to certify their vineyards through the California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance (CSWA) or another third-party certification process.

The ambitiousness and far-reaching goals of the potential project has also shortlisted the institution, the Tonga High School, among one of the finalists for the upcoming Zayed Future Energy Prize.