ambitious proposal
collocation in Englishmeaningsofambitiousandproposal
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ambitious
adjective
uk/æmˈbɪʃ.əs/us/æmˈbɪʃ.əs/
having a strong wish to be successful, powerful, ...
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proposal
noun[C]
uk/prəˈpəʊ.zəl/us/prəˈpoʊ.zəl/
a suggestion, sometimes a ...
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(Definition ofambitiousandproposalfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It is absolutely essential that steps should now be taken to make ambitious proposals for the time after 2012.
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In his contribution to the debate, he set out further ambitious proposals.
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The first difficulty concerns trade and the environment, areas that give us particular cause for concern due to the lack of ambitious proposals.
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One point that worries me is whether the implications of the scheme have been thought right through and whether the resources are available to match these ambitious proposals.
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Those are very ambitious proposals.
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This was anambitiousproposalfor the time.
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It is a veryambitiousproposal, but it does not have the necessary resources.
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The food standards agency is anambitiousproposal.
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This is a moreambitiousproposal—to give £100 to all children ranking for the allowance.
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A fully harmonised directive on unfair business-to-consumer practices was already a veryambitiousproposal that would have failed had its scope been extended to unfair business-to-business competitive practices.
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It is anambitiousproposal.
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It has anambitiousproposal: to gear all its forces towards the century of the environment - the coming century - and provide all possible information to those taking the decisions.
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That is anambitiousproposaland timetable.
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Extended technicolor is a veryambitiousproposal, requiring that quark and lepton masses and mixing angles arise from experimentally accessible interactions.
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To get on to the more ambitious proposals, it is proposed to establish a new disablement allowance varying with the severity of the disablement.
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It is precisely in this context that we must present ambitious proposals.
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We expect you to embrace this assumption and to come forward with clear, firm and ambitious proposals and reforms in all these fields.
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Some ambitious proposals are being thought out and framed.
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Some ambitious proposals of that kind have been outlined by one of our major construction groups.
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