ambitious definition

• Pier Project Debate Supposed to Be Political ; Transparency Keeps an Inherently Political Process From Veering From the Public Interest.

By definition, selecting a developer for the ambitious remaking of Portland's Maine State Pier is political. Judging that selection process, then, must take into account the fact that factions and coalitions will form around the proposals, with advocates on all sides trying to press every advantage. As such, this is a messy way to do business relative to how things are often done in the private sector.

• Portland Press Herald
• July 13, 2007

• Vieth v. Jubelirer, 541 U.S. 267 (2004)

...No substantive definition of fairness in districting commands general assent... the Court's refusal to undertake that ambitious project. Ante , at 15. I am persuaded, however, t...

• U.S. Supreme Court

• Magic Flutes & Enchanted Forests: The Supernatural in Eighteenth-Century Musical Theater

[...] given the wealth of interconnected concepts to which the author resorts, a theoretical discussion of how he understands the semantic functioning of these earmarks would have been desirable. [...] no matter what quibbles one might pose, this book is an indispensable tool for anyone who pretends to understand eighteenth-century music, and the rich insights it offers more than make up for its minor imperfections.

... of eighteenth-century style and genre definitions (later in the same phrase the composer equates "st... of that masterwork: "a kind of ambitious German version of recent opéra comique with an or...

• Music Library Association. Notes
• Vol. 66 Nbr. 3, March 2010

• Seana Shiffrin's thinker-based freedom of speech: a response.

... consequences because autonomy by definition is about what individuals have in common by virtue..., and exaggerating is an altogether more ambitious objective for a legal regime. Were that objective ...

• Constitutional Commentary
• Vol. 27 Nbr. 2, September 2011

• Investors Avoiding Alternative Energy

BOSTON - President Barack Obama laid out an ambitious goal in his latest State of the Union address: By 2035, America will get 80 percent of its electricity from clean energy sources. Achievable? Maybe, if you consider that Obama's expansive definition of clean energy includes nuclear and emerging clean coal technologies, which many environmentalists don't embrace as ways to combat greenhouse gases.

• Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
• February 13, 2011

• Part III

...: Final priorities, requirements, definitions, and selection criteria. Catalog of Federal Domest... college and careers; and implementing ambitious plans in four core education reform areas--. (a) A...

• FR, November 18, 2009
• Separate parts
• Education Department

• Workplace empowerment and organizational effectiveness: an empirical investigation of Indian banking sector.

... concept is relatively new, a universal definition has yet to emerge, yet its implementers have repor... this direction to the policy makers and ambitious implementers of the empowerment programmes. . Many...

• Academy of Banking Studies Journal
• Vol. 10 Nbr. 2, July 2011

• Slow Down On Health It ; Rushing Could Turn Progress Into a Mess

With federal checks for electronic health records only months away, our nation's health care system is on the brink of an unprecedented digital makeover. The stage was set for this technological revolution when $20 billion in government money for health information technology found its way into the $787 billion stimulus bill. The stimulus package contains bonus payments to doctors and hospitals designed to encourage adoption of electronic health records starting in 2011. These payments are to be phased out gradually and replaced by penalties beginning in 2015. The stimulus legislation also created the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and directed it to establish standards to attain interoperability and define key terms. The government recently release...

• The Washington Times
• August 23, 2010

• Lack of Venture Capital Hurts Evansville's Growth

During the early `90s, Louisville, Ky. and Evansville were on the same level when it came to local venture capital firms that offered funding for local entrepreneurs with ideas to pursue prosperity. At that time both Evansville and Louisville had no venture capital firms. Local people with ideas in need of funding had to pack their bags and leave town to pursue entrepreneurial dreams.

... not available, have caused educated, ambitious, and energetic young professionals with ideas to d...? I guess that answer depends on one's definition of survival. Perhaps a better question would have ...

• Evansville Courier & Press (2007-Current)
• January 21, 2011

• in Re General Motors Corporation Pick-Up Truck Fuel Tank Products Liability Litigation. Jack French, Robert M. West, Charles E. Merritt, Gary Blades, Dawn and Tracey Best, Gary and Jackie Barnes, Betty Marteny, John and Mary Southands, Edmund Berning, Dale W. Plummer, Edmund and Anneta Casey, John and Connie Yonki, Carl and Kathryn Corona, Dallas and Patricia Nelson, Mynard and Mildred Duncan, Kirby L. Stegman, Dewayne Anderson, Morris and Barbara Betzold, Appellants in No. 94-1064. Rudolph Jenkins, William D. Cunningham, Mather Johnson, Forrest Charles Ginn, Buren William Jones and Martin D. Parkman, Appellants in No. 94-1194. Parish of Jefferson, Appellant in No. 94-1195. the State of New York, Appellant in No. 94-1198. Elton Wilson, Individually, and Frank I. Owen, Individually and on Behalf of the Residents of the State of Alabama, Appellants in No. 94-1202. City of New York, Appellant in No. 94-1203. Betty Youngs, Barbara Phillips, Margaret Engel, Larry Swope, Robbin Maxwell and Center for Auto ..., 55 F.3d 768 (3rd Cir. 1995)

...The class definition included all persons and entities who purchased in...'s conclusion in part depended on the ambitious definition of the class in terms of both geography...

• Federal Circuits