Sentence examples for Commendable attempt from inspiring English sources

"I'm gonna treat you all like Denzel would treat you," Hanks began, before launching into a commendable attempt.

The production is a commendable attempt to shine a light into an obscure byway of the classical canon, but memorably moving or memorably funny it is not.

Forster's point about novelists sitting in a circle was a commendable attempt to avoid any Whiggish sense that they are somehow improving on their predecessors.

The NCAA's response to the scandal was a commendable attempt at behavior modification.

Rome adroitly conveys Roz's commendable attempts at maintaining a professional facade, as well as the emotional needs that lead her close to ethical transgression.

Over the past year BAT has actually been a poor performer – knocked by commendable attempts by regulators in the US to ban menthol cigarettes, which make up around a quarter of BAT's profits.

But despite Ek's commendable attempts to make things right, there's certain to be a huge backlash from European users, and also from a European startup community that has celebrated Spotify as one of the few home-grown Euro success stories.

The Big History project is an admirable attempt by Professor David Christian to make history interesting to students (and a commendable effort by Bill Gates to make it more accessible).

With encyclopedic rigor and commendable patience she attempted to introduce me to the discipline: its converging histories and sub-fandoms, its vicissitudes and interior controversies.

The difficulty with the otherwise commendable initiative is the attempt to cover an entire range of products in the Directive.

It is commendable that the Tories are attempting to look at alternatives to the unwavering support to the aviation industry given by Labour.