How To Use Laudable In A Sentence
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The goal to attack the spiralling cost of public services may be laudable, but the precedent is dangerous.
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This landmark and laudable legislative step would go a long way in women empowerment and gender equality.
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laudable motives of improving housing conditions
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The new report has the laudable aim of changing the make-up of the judiciary.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the duty of accumulation -- and I call it a _duty_, in the most strict and literal signification of that word -- all below a competence is most valuable, and its acquisition most laudable; but all above a fortune is a misfortune.
Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers
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Now we have set aside and stewardship schemes where the production of food is secondary to the look of the countryside - all very laudable.
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This is a laudable but somewhat abstract concept.
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The perfectly laudable aim is to engineer a more mixed intake in schools.
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Faith ceases to be laudable when it is blind faith.
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This was seen as a laudable attempt to be both environmentally and economically prudent.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is, in my judgment, a very laudable course of some churches, that use, for the next three days together, to desire the congregation to join in earnest prayer to God for the opening of the sinner's eyes, and the softening of his heart, and the saving of him from impenitency and eternal death.
The Reformed Pastor
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It is a laudable impulse to try to increase your understanding of voters in other parts of the country.
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It is a laudable ambition.
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A close race, their critics argue, implies a less laudable champion.
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At Cambridge University I was taught a laudable method of argument: you never personalise, but you have absolutely no respect for people's opinions.
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Director Jo Ward maintained her faith in her cast and performances all round were applaudable as, indeed, was Jo's choice of play and her patience.
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He had a laudable sense of civic duty and right and wrong.
The Sun
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The aim was laudable - the method was flawed.
Times, Sunday Times
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But Marianne abhorred all concealment where no real disgrace could attend unreserve; and to aim at the restraint of sentiments which were not in themselves illaudable, appeared to her not merely an unnecessary effort, but a disgraceful subjection of reason to common – place and mistaken notions.
Sense and Sensibility
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His record as a terror fighter is about as dismal as his record as a gangbuster is laudable.
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All the same, having an applaudable body is something Berry is obviously aware of, and comfortable with.
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The laudable, though illusory, cloak of improvement in the quality of patient care barely conceals a less acceptable political agenda.
Times, Sunday Times
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The report outlines a number of goals and objectives, all of which are no doubt very laudable.
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The applaudable philosophy is that flexibility is king.
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Who can, without respect and admiration, contemplate the sturdy integrity, and simple zeal with which this rustic moralist enforced his laudable though mistaken notions? who can help reflecting with some surprise upon the fact, that before he ceased to apothegmatise and advise his young friend against having anything to do with the actors he was actually the first who put him seriously in the notion of going directly upon the stage as a public actor?
The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810
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There is also a laudable attitude to capping: funds are closed to new business before they get too big and unwieldy.
Times, Sunday Times
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In other words, it bears witness to the laudable belief that it is evil to speak of nations or persons as though they were embodiments of evil.
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It is laudable that companies are already making redundant equipment available for re-use but in the overwhelming majority of cases, they are not rendering the data on hard drives unrecoverable.
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The aims of Quoting Caravaggio are ambitious and laudable, and Mieke Bal's formula for a contemporary baroque is intriguing.
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Ye haue another vicious speech which the Greekes call Acyron, we call it the vncouthe, and is when we vse an obscure and darke word, and vtterly repugnant to that we would expresse, if it be not by vertue of the figures metaphore, allegorie, abusion, or such other laudable figure before remembred, as he that said by way of Epithete.
The Arte of English Poesie
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Ministers had wanted to put the doctors in charge and to stop politicians meddling, which was a laudable aim.
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The product of the Soviets' laudable campaign for universal public housing, Petrzalka's rank ugliness serves only to emphasize what a jewel the old part of the city is.
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In normal circumstances, piecemeal reforms without a grand signature project might still add up to a laudable conservative record.
Times, Sunday Times
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Obama appears to have finally understood that his softly-softly approach, while laudable, was beginning to set up both the Democrats and himself for major losses come November.
Chris Dalby: Obama Finally Toughens Up - About Time!
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However, while applaudable efforts have been recorded, there are still outstanding challenges that demand our concerted efforts to address with particular reference to rural development and human capital formation.
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In the 1950s Caithness County Council, in a laudable attempt to revive the fishing industry on the island of Stroma, spent up to £30,000 on a new harbour.
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Forbearance, though it be no acquittance, is sometimes a piece of needful and laudable charity.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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But improving treatment for PTSD and other conditions (researchers are targeting the "appetitive" memory in addicts) is a laudable goal.
To Pluck a Rooted Sorrow
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All of which may be laudable in itself.
Times, Sunday Times
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The recycling programme is laudable, but does it save much money?
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Indeed, her laudable anxiety to be tidy and compact in her own conscience as well as in the public eye, gave rise to one of her most startling evolutions, which was to grasp herself sometimes by a sort of wooden handle (part of her clothing, and familiarly called a busk), and wrestle as it were with her garments, until they fell into a symmetrical arrangement.
The Battle of Life
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Sadly, though, he will be remembered most for less laudable reasons.
Times, Sunday Times
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They kept close together, and covered for each other with applaudable distrust.
John Terry and David Luiz at the heart of Chelsea's tactical triumph | David Pleat
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Excellent burgers, sides, beer, ambiance, energy level, desserts, service, crowd – everything is applaudable!
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The review is laudable and long overdue.
Times, Sunday Times
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The government's laudable aim is to secure a diverse mix of energy supply.
Times, Sunday Times
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Laudable too are the recent measures by republicans aimed at reassuring unionists that the war really is over.
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Well, Jonathan, my understanding is that the thinking at the time was laudable, but it was probably wrong-headed.
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The one thing I dislike about these week-by-week foetal development diaries is that the writers, pursuing the laudable aim of making things as concrete and real as possible, tend to compare the size of the beast to that of a piece of fruit, say.
Development
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These qualities may be laudable but they are not sufficient to win.
Times, Sunday Times
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_Edward_ the third, and _Richard_ the second for any that wrote in English meeter: because before their times by reason of the late Normane conquest, which had brought into this Realme much alteration both of our langage and lawes, and there withall a certain martiall barbarousnes, whereby the study of all good learning was so much decayd, as long time after no man or very few entended to write in any laudable science: so as beyond that time there is litle or nothing worth commendation to be founde written in this arte.
The Arte of English Poesie
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Sir Ch. Not satisfied with your own acknowledgment; as I know that young ladies are too ant to make secrets of a passion that is not in itself illaudable [I know not why, when proper persons make enqui-ries, and for motives not ungenerous]; I asked your elder sister, who scrupled not to own hers, whether there were any one man, whom you preferred to an-other?
Sir Charles Grandison
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I shall not undertake to draw the line of demarcation between private associations of laudable views and unimposing numbers, and those whose magnitude may rivalize and jeopardize the march of regular government.
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4
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We find them faintly ridiculous, laughable rather than laudable and have a strong desire to puncture their pomposity.
Times, Sunday Times
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This, by some, may be called ostentation -- be it so; it was the way in which I discovered my pride; and I trust, at all events, that it was equally laudable with the generous boon of our reverend doctor and justice, of the "_Old Alderney Cow_.
Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 2
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A society must emphasize self-perpetuation and making parenting easier is a necessary and laudable goal.
Layard and Happiness, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Her commitment is laudable but she does not have the credentials needed for her new position.
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Maybe it was a laudable reluctance to lecture a distant people.
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Focusing on the long term is also laudable in itself - especially in the light of what we've seen lately.
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First of all, the man in question gives millions of dollars every year to charity as it is, a fact I’m sure no one on this blog can say….and to keep them out of the hands of some crepy jesus freak who might burn them is laudable.
More Awards Guff – Brokeback Mountain Wins PGA Prize
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Our council's proposal to target secondary schools, while laudable, is catching them too late.
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I and my collegues applaud the American tradition of TRUTH - and your questioning throughout our nation of claims of heroism is applaudable.
BERNARD RAMSEY
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She has said that she tries to sound natural and unaffected, and that's a laudable goal.
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This was the era of patrician history, when scholars followed the great classical historians in holding up to posterity examples of errors, failings, and laudable deeds.
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The laudable, though illusory, cloak of improvement in the quality of patient care barely conceals a less acceptable political agenda.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is a laudable intention to build new rail interchanges at Edinburgh and Glasgow and I am very supportive of that.
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Also laudable were the sets and puppets designed by veteran scenic artist Carter and several others.
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It is a laudable ambition, but is it achievable?
Times, Sunday Times
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She has apologised to her fans over the furore about her apparent decision to wear fur, branding their concern regarding animal pelts "fair and applaudable".
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Jon Stewart's laudable Rally to Restore Sanity is a welcome message aimed at bringing calm and moderation to the overheated political debate that Glenn Beck has ginned up with the Tea Party.
Deepak Chopra: Glenn Beck and the faithful are attacking faith
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A budget surplus is a laudable aim.
Times, Sunday Times
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The laudable, though illusory, cloak of improvement in the quality of patient care barely conceals a less acceptable political agenda.
Times, Sunday Times
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The event, though laudable, is sadly not gratis.
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Maybe if you'd been catching balls yourself, instead of spending the whole challenge trying to disrobe Grant Laudable as that lofty goal is, you might have found yourself "meant to win.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 22: Rerun Island: Small Minds and Giant Jesus.
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For the President to encourage children to work hard, get their diploma, go to college, and set goals for themselves is applaudable.
Pawlently takes aim at Obama's address to students
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Edward Hill was more than the foregoing; he was a fair type of a large class of colored men who were then as now struggling against adverse fate in the South, in the laudable effort to vindicate the good name of the so called freedmen of that section.
Recollections of the Inhabitants, Localities, Superstitions, and KuKlux Outrages of the Carolinas. By a "Carpet-Bagger" Who Was Born and Lived There
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Regardless of whether or not one accepts Loach's version of reality, his dedication to realism is laudable.
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The laudable, though illusory, cloak of improvement in the quality of patient care barely conceals a less acceptable political agenda.
Times, Sunday Times
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- “Republicans are also proposing to expand the individual market by creating pooling mechanisms such as association health plans and individual membership accounts”: In theory, Association Health Plans (AHP) are intended to implement a laudable goal: allow small employers to pool their risk nationally so they can get the same economies of scale and negotiating power as large employers.
Wonk Room » Republicans Introduce Another Health Care Alternative, What Was Wrong With The Other Four?
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Enabling the internet's full potential to be used by the world's entire population is indeed laudable.
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It is a very laudable approach, that is, if we are serious about dealing with the issue of drunk driving.
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There is also a laudable attitude to capping: funds are closed to new business before they get too big and unwieldy.
Times, Sunday Times
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The author's use of lots of prose to explain key ideas, concepts and theories is laudable.
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The move was a serious blow to the government's laudable aim of achieving full employment.
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Most farmers would agree that was a laudable aim, but many doubt that the ministry has the will or the wherewithal to bring it about.
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It is obvious that the motives of the Holy See and its agents were laudable; they wanted to save the souls of the millions under their care from everlasting perdition.
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The four of you have based your performances on the laudable premise of entertainment & escapism.
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Why has a laudable achievement such as this not been highlighted as part of the ongoing tourism campaign which is somewhat ungrammatically named ‘Uniquely Singapore’?
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We find them faintly ridiculous, laughable rather than laudable and have a strong desire to puncture their pomposity.
Times, Sunday Times
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Judging School Discipline casts a backward glance at the roots of this dilemma to show how a laudable concern for civil liberties forty years ago has resulted in oppressive abnegation of adult responsibility now.
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But it is entirely possible to teach the child too thoroughly in this respect and to make him so fond of his jingling pennies safe within a yellow crockery pig or iron cupolaed mansion that be will not spend them for any object, however laudable.
Study of Child Life
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Fiscal discipline is theoretically a laudable goal, though in this case the agreement won't prevent governments from embarking on Keynesian spending sprees as "one-off and temporary measures"—the definition of "one-off" presumably being in the eye of the beholder.
Seventeenth Brussels Washout
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But Marianne abhorred all concealment where no real disgrace could attend unreserve; and to aim at the restraint of sentiments which were not in themselves illaudable, appeared to her not merely an unnecessary effort, but a disgraceful subjection of reason to common-place and mistaken notions.
Sense and Sensibility
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But it was no less laudable for that.
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Neither is it in Gods esteem the diminution of his glory, when honorable things are spoken of good men and worthy magistrates; which if I now first should begin to do, after so fair a progress of your laudable deeds, and such a long obligement upon the whole realm to your indefatigable virtues, I might be justly reckoned among the tardiest, and the unwillingest of them that praise ye.
Areopagitica: A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing: Paras 1-19
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It was a laudable aim - but an elusive one.
Times, Sunday Times
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_metaphore, allegorie, abusion_, or such other laudable figure before remembred, as he that said by way of _Epithete_.
The Arte of English Poesie
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Nowadays a reasonable degree of certainty for third parties is not merely a laudable aim, it is a mandatory requirement of the law.
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A person can be successfully evil only if he or she can embody a peculiarly nasty blend of vicious evil and laudable good.
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Such laudable and honorable strivings are the only real ways to make profit honestly.
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For those who suppose a bad cause for laudable works and commendable actions, endeavoring by calumnies to insinuate sinister suspicions of the actor when they cannot openly discommend the act, — as they that impute the killing of
Essays and Miscellanies
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Besides, another really laudable step was the running of coaches and umpires' clinics concurrent with the National Championship.
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But if pleasure is to be had in admiring great works of art, 50 Years at Pace packs a laudable punch.
Dorothy Spears: Pedigree and Promise in 50 Years At Pace
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We find them faintly ridiculous, laughable rather than laudable and have a strong desire to puncture their pomposity.
Times, Sunday Times
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The goals are laudable and no one doubts the sincerity of the soldiers, the aid officials and the diplomats to carry out the job.
Times, Sunday Times
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As such, he doesn't explain the essential mystery here - how modest funding for a laudable goal could have become such a punishing liability.
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Maybe it was a laudable reluctance to lecture a distant people.
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Itis a laudable tale, but it often seems as though it's on autopilot.
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Neither is it in Gods esteem the diminution of His glory, when honorable things are spoken of good men and worthy magistrates; which if I now first should begin to do, after so fair a progress of your laudable deeds, and such a long obligement upon the whole realm to your indefatigable virtues, I might be justly reckoned among the tardiest, and the unwillingest of them that praise ye.
Plea for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing
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We find them faintly ridiculous, laughable rather than laudable and have a strong desire to puncture their pomposity.
Times, Sunday Times
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His view is simple: all real power must stay in the Commons - a laudable idea when the second chamber is a mix of heredity and appointment, but indefensible where it is democratically elected.
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Maybe it was a laudable reluctance to lecture a distant people.
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Her appeal to a range of sources within the tradition is laudable, particularly since patristic theologians had been neglected in her book until this point.
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Perfection is a laudable aim in sport but rarely, if ever, is it attainable.
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His attempt is doubly laudable given the rough ride that it has had inside and outside his department.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ye, O most laudable, have forsaken the life that draggeth down, the delights of food and flourishing glory as transient things, and have attached yourselves unto Christ, kindled by His exceeding beauty, cleaving unto Him as sweet-smelling wild roses, and ye were God-beseemingly crowned with the crowns of the incorruptible Kingdom.
The General Menaion or the Book of Services Common to the Festivals of our Lord Jesus of the Holy Virgin and of Different Orders of Saints
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While your attitude is applaudable, most prominent anti-abortion groups are also anti contraception and they don't tolerate anyone who is pro-life and pro-contraception.
Diana Whitten and Anita Schillhorn van Veen: Abortion Ship Forced To Cease Operations After Passage Of Dutch Pregnancy Law
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His noble ideas and polite behavior are laudable.
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International ambitions are laudable, but from a financial standpoint it will be some time before they have an impact.
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It may be laudable but now is probably not the time.
Times, Sunday Times
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Now while such achievements are laudable, tactical vote swapping should, if it is to be organised by a third party, be run on a non-partisan basis.
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applaudable efforts to save the environment
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Governments are good at spending taxpayers' money on less laudable things.
Times, Sunday Times
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And shall only take notice of such whose experimental and judicious knowledge shall be employed, not to traduce or extenuate, but to explain and dilucidate, to add and ampliate, according to the laudable custom of the ancients in their sober promotions of learning.
Sir Thomas Browne and his 'Religio Medici' an Appreciation
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The aim is laudable: to make films so cheaply that there are no creative restraints or interference from financiers.
Times, Sunday Times
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The protesters are incredibly courageous, and their aims laudable.
Times, Sunday Times
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Catholic faith, you have hitherto been much occupied in the expugnation and recovery of the kingdom of Granada, by reason whereof you could not bring your said laudable purpose to the end desired.
Great Epochs in American History, Volume I. Voyages Of Discovery And Early Explorations: 1000 A.D.-1682
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Whatever happened to the applaudable moral values you upheld in the classic scathing satirical attack on corporate mentality and economic imperialism?
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Whereupon it came to passe, that all the commendable parts of speech were set foorth by the name of figures, and all the illaudable partes vnder the name of vices, or viciosities, of both which it shall bee spoken in their places.
The Arte of English Poesie
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In the first case, his pleasure consisteth in two conditions: first, in the having gained his fortune, and secondly, in the laudable115 issue of his quest; and in the other case, his pleasure consisteth, first, in his readiness to seek his daily bread; secondly, in his abstaining from being a burthen to the folk; and thirdly, in his freedom from liability to blame.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Although some of his reforms were laudable, they were combined with strict curbs on the powers of the parliaments, convincing many that the hour of despotism had struck.
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The laudable, though illusory, cloak of improvement in the quality of patient care barely conceals a less acceptable political agenda.
Times, Sunday Times
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Anyone familiar with my previous ham-fisted attempts to establish myself as a domestic goddess will find this new urge more laughable than laudable.
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It may sound laudable but, in the chamber, there was only carping.
Times, Sunday Times
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However laudable these goals, the implementation often bulldozes individual rights and autonomy, just as the old eugenicist planners did.
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Three fatalities put paid to that laudable sentiment, and Jenga had ordered them stopped.
TREASON KEEP
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The ambition was laudable but the execution was marred by a series of ill-timed and increasingly expensive acquisitions.
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His point is laudable, but will likely prove ineffective once US news shows pick up the scent.
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Such a move could turbocharge the government's laudable but as yet lightweight northern powerhouse initiatives.
Times, Sunday Times
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But whilst I blame the illaudable customs of the inconsiderate, I rejoice in the number of the worthy.
The Wife; or, Caroline Herbert
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Machiavelism, but to a "laudable desire to connect the actions of one's country with something more stable than interest.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863
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Well, Jonathan, my understanding is that the thinking at the time was laudable, but it was probably wrong-headed.
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Obviously, it's a laudable aim, but it is oddly catholic in its objectives.
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The proposal to give tax exemption on the pension received by ex-servicemen and their kin is laudable.
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At least some of the candidates were quick to recognize the potential for abstraction within these laudable yet undefined goals.
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Repubs have perverted the honest, laudable notion of ’supporting our troops’ to mean supporting the criminal acts of our administration that have put those young men and women in harm’s way in in the first place.
Think Progress » ThinkFast: January 9, 2007
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But how do I know, thought I, that even these bruises and maims that I have gotten, while I pursued only the laudable escape I had meditated, may not kindly have furnished me with the opportunity I am now tempted with to precipitate myself, and of surrendering up my life, spotless and unguilty, to that merciful Being who gave it!
Pamela
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MR: You've taken your careers into your own hands and that's applaudable, and you're selling these huge amounts of records by self-promoting.
Mike Ragogna: Give A Little: Yesterday's Conversation with Taylor Hanson
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He would dart out his tongue right and left, as rapidly as lightning, and lap up the ants in quick succession, with the most laudable gulosity.
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Though the treaty is all but defunct, its goals remain laudable.
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Do you, my dear (to whom theory and practice are the same thing in almost every laudable quality), apply the observation to yourself, in this particular case, where resolution is required; and where the performance of the will of the defunct is the question — no more to be dispensed with by you, in whose favour it was made, than by any body else who have only themselves in view by breaking through it.
Clarissa Harlowe
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And I will not reach aboue the time of king Edward the third, and Richard the second for any that wrote in English meeter: because before their times by reason of the late Normane conquest, which had brought into this Realme much alteration both of our langage and lawes, and there withall a certain martiall barbarousnes, whereby the study of all good learning was so much decayd, as long time after no man or very few entended to write in any laudable science: so as beyond that time there is litle or nothing worth commendation to be founde written in this arte.
The Arte of English Poesie
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Senior officers in the transport department agree that Minister's intention may be laudable.
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Religious studies courses in secular schools may be laudable exercises in comparative religion, but they don't provide in-depth textual knowledge or the language tuition, say in Hebrew or Arabic.
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That is wholly laudable, and I suspect that it does not divide the parties.
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It highlights the applaudable actions by the government in revoking 29 licenses to foreign super trawlers earlier this year, while exposing the urgency and the need for the establishment of sustainable fisheries policies in Senegal.
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It has become a laudable tradition among all chipset developers to introduce their new products in series rather than singly.
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It is a record only the most churlish, or those with almost impossibly high expectations, could deem anything less than laudable.
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The "Verses on the Unfortunate Lady" have drawn much attention by the illaudable singularity of treating suicide with respect; and they must be allowed to be written in some parts with vigorous animation, and in others with gentle tenderness; nor has Pope produced any poem in which the sense predominates more over the diction.
Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope
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Their generosity with a minimum of paperwork is applaudable.
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The report said it had a laudable aim and created skilled jobs - but was not open to proper public scrutiny.
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The economy of material for the design is quite applaudable.
Beautiful Coffee Table Crafted From Sawdust Scraps | Inhabitat
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But in the second place, admitting that the apostle's design here is to discountenance this practice, not only as weak and illaudable, but also as sinful and disallowable; yet I affirm, that he accounted it not sinful from the very nature of the action, but only the irregularity of the circumstance; that they went to law upon every slight occasion, before unbelievers, in verse 1.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII.
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Do you, my dear (to whom theory and practice are the same thing in almost every laudable quality), apply the observation to yourself, in this particular case, where resolution is required; and where the performance of the will of the defunct is the question -- no more to be dispensed with by you, in whose favour it was made, than by any body else who have only themselves in view by breaking through it.
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2
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Its effort is particularly laudable, for it is aimed at conserving nature as also beautifying the city, without disturbing the natural surroundings.
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International ambitions are laudable, but from a financial standpoint it will be some time before they have an impact.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sir Hugh could now repair the omissions of his youth; but he was willing to console his want of knowledge, and sooth his mortifications; and while he grieved for his bodily infirmities, and pitied his mental repinings, he considered his idea as not illaudable, though injudicious, and in favour of its blamelessness, forgave its absurdity.
Camilla
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"I just hope that in our effort to clean up some of the worst practices we don't completely overreact and try and clamp down on perfectly normal and applaudable reporting," he said today.
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If that happen in their nonage, which is probable, appoint commendatories to discharge the duty for them for a laudable allowance, but gathering the fruits for the support of your grandchildren, till they come to virility to be consecrated, '&c.
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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It is a laudable aim, if not an original one.
Times, Sunday Times
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The improvement of lighting in the castle area to enhance the safe use of the cobbled area is laudable.
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Now we have set aside and stewardship schemes where the production of food is secondary to the look of the countryside - all very laudable.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her work for charity is highly laudable.
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From this perspective, cosmetic surgery can be grouped with laudable efforts at self-improvement.
Times, Sunday Times
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(See Obama promotes nuclear-free world.) It is applaudable that the US and Russia systemtically reduce their nuclear stockpile and encourage every other nuclear power to do so.
Obama's Nuclear Free World: All but Israel
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You acquire gravitas and project it like a cologne whenever you discuss the singular and laudable Salomon Brothers culture.
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From a laudable desire to assert the dignity of his theme, Procopius defends the soldiers of his own time against the morose critics, who confined that respectable name to the heavy-armed warriors of antiquity, and maliciously observed, that the word archer is introduced by Homer 8 as a term of contempt.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Both are laudable aims, and both may be partially realized in the course of psychoanalysis.