Sentence examples for a commendable exception from inspiring English sources

Depending on your point of view, all this represents grotesque overindulgence or a commendable exception to the usual Olympics rule, which holds that the showcase infrastructure falls into varying degrees of disuse and grand "legacy" pledges go unfulfilled.

The night, a mix of songs, skits and documentary-style shorts chronicling poverty in African villages and mobile homes in Appalachia, was a commendable exception to the show's ruling formula of commercialized pop music and corporate cross-promotion (viewers who want to hear the contestants on the "Idol" Web site must download their songs from Itunes).

A commendable exception to this overall trend was the Texas-based Meadowshiftedation, which shifted priorities to provide emergency operating support for its grantees.

8 A commendable exception is the recent HANDOVER study, a large multicentre and multinational study on patient transitions from the acute hospital to the primary care setting using a mixed-methods approach involving patients and care providers.

Moderation in all things is a commendable maxim – but the exception is travel.

A commendable statement, indeed.

What a commendable attitude.

It was a commendable aspiration.

That he had been a commendable governor?

But it was a commendable achievement nevertheless.

This is a commendable overall statement.