Music can sum up and symbolize local, regional or national ambitions.

On the positive side, it resolved the basic conflict between regional ambitions and the need for coordination.

And unlike, say, Japan or China, South Korea has never given any nation cause to fear its regional ambitions.

"A moment has come to separate partisan, regional and personal ambitions from the strict necessity to strengthen the state system and reinforce its power," he said.

This American desire to placate the Sunnis could also hurt our regional ambitions.

Egypt and the 1948 War: Internal conflict and regional ambition.

The war proved costly, but it ended Iran's regional ambitions and kept Mr. Hussein in power.

It is now its own Times, with national, international and regional ambitions.

And there is no doubt that his aggressive regional ambitions will lead him into future confrontations with his neighbors.

Promotional as they may be, they frequently pick up details that can escape Web sites with regional or national ambitions.