"excessive ambition" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
For example, you can use it in a sentence like this: "His excessive ambition caused him to forget the importance of humility and patience."
This overview does not suffer from excessive ambition.
Mr. Dodd, Democrat of Connecticut, added that the administration was "getting precariously close" to excessive ambition for the legislation.
The Obama administration's troubles are the result not of excessive ambition, but of policy and political misjudgments.
First among these is allowing private wholesale markets.Various putative dauphins were raised up by Fidel only to fall from grace, accused of corruption or of excessive ambition.
Its bosses believe they have done well since 2010, ending an era of bloat, excessive ambition and corner-cutting on safety.
But his enemies saw the same qualities in a less favorable light, and ascribed to him excessive ambition, arrogance and manipulativeness.
Had events forced Louis to accept a total surrender, it would have been even more tempting for historians to blame the defeat upon the excessive ambitions of an arrogant man.
When parental actions are disruptive or disturbing as, for example, in relationships coloured by alcoholism, hostility, cruelty, neglect, overprotection of the child, or excessive ambitions for and expectations of the child behavioral disorders are commonly found in the children involved.
Mr. Evans is also a source of unstinting loyalty, which is a nonnegotiable demand of anyone in Mr. Bush's inner circle and a vestige of the Texas governor's belief that his father was occasionally ill served by aides with excessive ambitions and egos.
And in the first week of January Las Vegas also becomes home to the excessive ambitions of an industry that believes it really knows what consumers want.
This is the time of year when banks either shower stacks of green onto 100-hour-a-week workers, or dump lumps of coal on excessive ambitions.
