The phrase "ambitious honor" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a type of honor that is driven by strong aspirations or goals, often in a context where one seeks to achieve something significant or noteworthy.
Example: "His pursuit of an ambitious honor led him to take on challenges that others deemed impossible."
Alternatives: "aspirational honor" or "noble ambition".
It was supposed to be a feather in the cap for the City University of New York's ambitious honors college.
The city of Gary, Indiana has planned an ambitious $300 million complex honoring the legacy of native son and superstar Michael Jackson.
The Mary Ellen Gilstrap Memorial Scholarship, named after a longtime resident of Glendale and La Cañada Flintridge, honors ambitious women who are active in the community and graduated from a local high school.
In a single stroke, those who join in the ambitious project are both honoring tradition and testing its bounds.
The speaker was the guest of honor, the young ambitious president of the nation's leading steel company.
One New Yorker wrote that Washington acted rashly and that he was "too ambitious of acquiring all the honor", while London commentators dismissed the failure casually, citing a lack of colonial military experience.
Excellent local reporting will be honored from an ambitious series about energy from Detroit Public TV, to a WFAA-TV, Dallas series of investigative reports about corrupt practices at local trade schools, WSB-TV, Atlanta's dogged investigative series about sovereign citizens and housing fraud, and WTVF-TV, Nashville's relentless look at state agencies' abuse of the law for profit.
Dingwell, who has more than 240 publications to his name as well as a series of awards and honors, is "an ambitious scientist and very conscious of the quality of research being done," says Tuija Pulkkinen, dean of the School of Electrical Engineering at Aalto University in Finland.
Studious, disciplined, ambitious, Obama received, in 1991, the honor of being asked to speak at the annual banquet of the Harvard Black Law Students Association, an occasion at which a prominent judge or attorney is usually featured.
Imitation may be a sincere form of flattery, but something more ambitious than imitation is far more honoring.
At the prescreening cocktail session Summit executives said they were counting on critics and cineastes to honor the film as an ambitious and ultimately uplifting treatment of an extremely difficult subject.
