"rational ambition" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe someone who has ambitions that are well thought out and achievable, or to describe a goal that requires careful planning to reach. For example, "With a rational ambition of becoming a doctor, Jane set forth an achievable plan of obtaining her degree."
He adds, "His mind and world were poised between Catholicism and Protestantism, old feudal ways and new bourgeois ambitions, rational thinking and visceral instinct, faith and skepticism".
In his Monday column, Shalom Yerushalmi, a political analyst for the Maariv newspaper, said Mr. Olmert ultimately would not run "unless virulent political bacteria and insane ambition overcome simple rational consideration".
I wanted to say that we're still the same people, with the same skills and talents – don't assume we're all struck down with "baby brain", devoid of ambition and incapable of rational thought.
Coleridge described boom and bust as occurring when rational "circumspection" gives way to "emulous ambition", "incaution" and "a vortex of hopes and hazards, of blinding passions and blind practices".
Mr Putin may not have lit the match this week, but he assembled the pyre.To most rational observers, fomenting chaos across the border in Ukraine might seem an odd ambition for Russia.
The president, who made outreach to Iran a hallmark of his first year in office, said he still believed Iran's leaders could make a rational calculation, under the pressure of harsh sanctions, to give up their nuclear ambitions.
For instance, in the act that switched ownership, it is stated that the cabinet's ambition is to "combine availability, quality and care for the patient with a rational resource allocation and a holistic societal responsibility and leadership" [ 7].
Iran's oil policies are not solely driven by economic factors, like other rational state actors, but by geopolitical parameters as well as Tehran's regional hegemonic and ideological ambitions.
