In order to maintain security, the province required the presence of three legions; but command of these forces provided an ideal power base for ambitious rivals.
After being denied entry into Super League, the club's head coach, Neil Kelly, who had guided the team to its recent success moved onto ambitious rivals Widnes.
Unseasoned as a politician, he faced ambitious rivals and ethnic rancor at home.
Almecho would not be the first Warlord to be removed by a more ambitious rival.
He was the most ardent of Quinn's new apostles, a former black stimulant program pusher who was murdered at the age of twenty-three by a faster, more ambitious rival.
Mr. Gorbachev tried to blame the paralysis on ambitious rivals, irresponsible republic and local governments, and what he called "a consistent, well-planned, well-conceived campaign" to discredit him.
Cooperative R&D ventures may also allow dominant firms to control (and, therefore, slow down) the innovative efforts of their more talented and ambitious rivals.
He prepares for the ultimate conquest for his most ambitious rivals, a challenge that no warlord is able to resist as the rewards are unimaginable.
His mother marries Post's ambitious rival, Judd Raike, who then sets about ruining Post.
Liverpool transferred him to an ambitious rival for two million pounds.