Muriel may be excessively ambitious and Arthur excessively cautious, but each has enormous respect for the law as a means of getting at the truth.

It is also an excessively ambitious wish list that is too diffuse to generate the kind of support that can be realistically expected from Washington.

This is a slight overbid, but since North is a passed hand, South should not get excessively ambitious.

But it was also clear that the founders were excessively ambitious.

The most amusing drawings are those in which amateur artists were excessively ambitious - looping o's across a page as an artistic way to detail anatomy, for example.

But in testimony last year, he acknowledged the problems with Trailblazer, describing it as a "moon shot" with excessively ambitious goals.

There is no doubt that the war limited her career as it occurred during her prime singing years; though she was also said not to have been excessively ambitious.

Bevin reiterated a warning against what he regarded as excessively ambitious hopes of integration.

"I eventually abandoned the idea as excessively ambitious and decided instead on the cycle of novels" centered on an Albany family.

Excessively ambitious targets (such as 50-60%) would lead to stipulations that cannot be implemented.