1.   He accused Kremlin hawks of a conspiracy to keep the war going to bolster their own power and thwart his ambitions.

2.   Her lifelong ambitions had been thwarted again and again.

3.   His military ambitions thwarted by vision problems, Clancy was selling insurance while plotting thrillers at his dining room table at night.

4.   Washington is rightly determined to thwart that ambition, even if it comes to military force.

5.   Beijing has asked for reassurance that the new Japan-U.S. military guidelines are not aimed at China or at thwarting its ambitions to reunite with Taiwan.

6.   Beijing wants clear assurances that the agreement will not be aimed at China or thwart its ambitions to reunite Taiwan, a former Japanese colony and U.S. ally.

7.   Beijing particularly wants clear assurances that the agreement is not aimed at thwarting Chinese ambitions to reunite Taiwan, a former Japanese colony and U.S. ally.

8.   Such recognition would discourage union between the Bosnian and Croatian Serbs and thwart ambitions of forging a Greater Serbia.