Her co-workers often scoffed at what they saw as her unrealistic ambitions, but though she knew no Brazilian Indian woman had ever become a lawyer, she ignored them.

"They started off with unrealistic ambitions and expectations and they've had a number of failures," he said in a telephone interview last week.

Sometimes, gloriously unrealistic human ambitions had a certain merit.

Now the Bosnian Government should scale back its unrealistic ambitions and withdraw its army to establish a viable, independent republic around Sarajevo.

Mr. Kornblum said completely closing the clubs was an unrealistic ambition.

Gurgeh was well used to such flattery - it usually masked an unrealistic but slightly feral ambition - but had suggested they play Possession.

In this mixture of live action and animation, two black children wander into an enchanted grove, where Aesop tells them fables that differentiate between realistic and unrealistic ambition.

By all accounts, Curt Boettcher was a perfectionist, a control freak, a megalomaniac and a fount of unrealistic ambition.

Riccardo (Riccardo Fellini), the baritone, nourishes unrealistic ambitions to sing and act.

The Kyoto Protocol's demise is erasing unrealistic ambitions on the left, and a swelling majority of centrists now recognizes the need for precaution on burning carbon-based fuels.