1.   He acknowledged that military action alone cannot rid Iraq of chemical and biological weapons nor compel Saddam to abandon his ambitions to stockpile dangerous materials.

2.   One chooses love, abandoning her ambitions for a family.

3.   Still, if Microsoft has abandoned its ambitions to be a media company, it is not clear what other ambitions the company has shelved.

4.   We may have to abandon any ambitions to live in space.

5.   Brother Albert abandons worldly ambition for a life of religious devotion.

6.   Iraq urged the United States on Thursday to abandon its ambitions in Iraqi Kurdistan after accusing it again of interfering in Kurdish affairs.

7.   After abandoning its ambitions as a global player in next generation mobile telephony, BT has now returned to concentrate on its mainstay fixed line business.

8.   After abandoning its ambitions as a global player in next-generation mobile telephony, BT has returned to concentrate on its mainstay fixed-line business.

9.   It argued the Congress, which brought down the government in a bid to form its own administration, would not abandon that ambition.