11.   The power to support its global ambitions eroded long ago.

12.   This global ambition is now being tested daily in battle in the Balkans.

13.   This is particularly true in the banking industry, where a number of European firms have declared global ambitions.

14.   Thomas Krens, director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and champion of its global ambitions, arrived in town Thursday on his own motorcycle.

15.   Thursday Warburg is the one British-owned investment house that could assert that it is pursuing global ambitions.

16.   To be sure, the Botins know their global ambitions are not without risks.

17.   When transportation was slow, global ambition was necessarily tempered.

18.   With Europe dissolving its protective telecommunications boundaries, any company with global ambitions must fight for the upper hand in Europe.

19.   Foreign Minister Kharrazi said the accusations were intended to divert world attention from Israeli violence against Palestinians and reveals U.S. global ambitions.

20.   But Williams has insisted that his global ambitions will not stop him defending his British title against Harrison.