Their vision sparked rival ambitions in Jackson, subsequently dubbed 'a bottomless man' by Edward Pease (diary, 27 March 1857).

Along the way, Howard meets Myron Larabee (Sinbad), a postal worker dad with a rival ambition, and the two soon become bitter competitors in their race for the action figure.

The Frankfurt and Paris exchanges have rival ambitions to primacy in Europe and have been making alliances or planning acquisitions while London has been distracted.

It grew out of rival imperial ambitions of the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over Manchuria and Korea.

More than once, the aging, infirm ayatollah has proved himself capable of pulling fractious Shiite political groups together when their rival ambitions have threatened to fragment Shiite political power.

Tensions are mounting in the tangled triangle of rival ambitions surrounding Air New Zealand.

The other bill was from the L&CR itself, which wanted to block its rival GNR's ambitions to reach Scotland.

The conflict arose over rival ambitions in Manchuria and Korea.

He called attention to countries around the world where "social imbalances and rival ambitions" cause human suffering.