The Family Health Plus initiative is a commendable effort to expand health care for low-income workers.
And for the first time, on a night when Arsenal's supporters delivered magnificent backing for a team that produced such a commendable effort in defeat, Ozil was singled out for criticism, especially when he failed to react to a quickly-taken Bayern corner.
As for food, Barley Vine makes a commendable effort at keeping its prices affordable.
But this half-hour presentation (offered again in three afternoon performances on Dec. 19) is a commendable effort to bring holiday music back to the magnificent space, where for more than a decade, until 2012, the great male chorus Chanticleer gave Christmastime concerts.
It's a commendable effort to make history less dry, but it leaves you unexpectedly longing for a dispassionate guide — a professor in a chair, pointing out what's new and juicy in the account.
It is a commendable effort to educate about and generate discussion of a subject with far-reaching implications for teenagers and society as a whole.
It's a commendable effort by Miliband to normalize new-media engagements in his public diplomacy.
The Carupano carnival parade is a commendable effort, if slightly amateur in execution.
In fact, most times I do think he is "fair and balanced" and makes a commendable effort to avoid "spin".
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).
PGA is making a commendable effort in Pakistan and South Asia to improve HIV awareness on a governmental level.
