The phrase "a laudable ambition" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a goal or aspiration that is commendable or worthy of praise.
Example: "Her desire to improve education in underprivileged communities is truly a laudable ambition."
Alternatives: "a commendable goal" or "an admirable aspiration."
That was a laudable ambition, but it told only half the story.
To pair sociological sweep with psychological intimacy, as this book sets out to do, is a laudable ambition.
I think that the promotion of baseball overseas is a laudable ambition because it is something worth sharing.
"Implementing seven-day services is a laudable ambition but is not realistic unless additional funding becomes available and workforce challenges can be overcome".
The odd critic has allowed that motherhood remains a laudable ambition, although having children seems to have become unnervingly disconnected from finding a partner first.
A few months ago, one of my canaries, who's in his mid-teens and harbours a laudable ambition to be the world's greatest ever rock musician, was messing about on his electric guitar.
"What Professor Duffy desires to do I believe – and if so it is a most laudable ambition – is to humanise the linguistic semantic detritus of our particular phase of oligarchical consumerism.
And while his book is an amalgam of voices, moods, styles and forms — a collection intermittently burdened by its laudable ambition — the stories speak to an important literary pursuit: that of pushing limits, of embracing challenge, no matter the gharials at your toes.
It is hard not to recognize Ms. Goldberg's laudable ambition to create a complicated work, and in Dean she has imagined a central character with powerful and potentially moving conflicts.
Whether any of this conjecture has a basis in fact, the deluge of 15 CD's provides an opportunity to assess Mr. Marsalis's career, its laudable ambition as well as its flaws.
But for all its laudable ambition, her programme seemed to overlook the obvious.
