It's an admirable ambition, but it demands original research or interpretation, preferably both.

Those might be admirable ambitions, but they were not what made an actor or an actress.

This is not your everyday apotheosis, or high on most people's lists of admirable ambitions.

Shortening the time of games is an admirable ambition.

Lots of people want to save the world or at least feel they are making a contribution and exploiting those admirable ambitions is easy.

He wants to blend politics and drama, an admirable ambition.

"Might that not be considered an admirable ambition?"

But even this admirable ambition was lost in the laundry list.

To sacrifice such admirable ambition to rigidity about grades would be lamentable.

It was some time before he said, "An admirable ambition.