Other activities deemed praiseworthy by the report included: Starbucks' promise to serve 25% of all beverages in its stores in reusable mugs or tumblers by 2015, even though the coffee giant backtracked, saying it would reach only 5%.
Taking a non-ideological approach to the finances of the country was obviously praiseworthy.
VOWS of chastity may be praiseworthy, but 80m years is ridiculous.
In Mr Schwartz's view, Johnson did a praiseworthy job of managing relations with Europe.
Despite his green credentials, Mr Bryson's appointment was welcomed by Tom Donohue, head of the US Chamber of Commerce, who seldom finds anything praiseworthy in what Mr Obama does.Mr Bryson may not be as exciting a choice as some of those who were said to be in the running for the job, notably Eric Schmidt of Google.
Like Mr Chait, I don't mean this moralistically; certainly progressives think the party would be more morally praiseworthy if it were more truculent, not less.
All are praiseworthy for a clarity and precision that helped to pave the way for the artificial language of algebra.Algebra reached Europe via the Arabs.
Despite Koranic injunctions to the contrary, some radical Islamic thinkers have justified the killing of civilians, and of other Muslims, in the name of jihad.Likewise, suicide bombings or "martyrdom operations", as some of their exponents prefer have been rationalised as a praiseworthy embrace of death at the hands of the enemy, and as a legitimate tactic in extremis.
ROSS DOUTHAT thinks liberals should object less strenuously to the Hobby Lobby decision because religion often impels corporations to do things that liberals would consider morally praiseworthy.
In these difficult times, caution and attention to detail are praiseworthy rather than the reverse.Action and reactionThe big test will come when the next boom arrives.
With household debt and house prices at record levels and mortgage rates creeping up, a housing crash is the biggest domestic risk facing the economy.Among the policies deemed praiseworthy in 2003 was a bill to decriminalise cannabis (which was never passed).
