Sentence examples for a commendable history from inspiring English sources

Lobby groups and NGOs have a commendable history of holding the government to account and stepping in where it fails, although funding, whether it comes from the government or from donors, is limited.

The South Americans also have a commendable Olympic history (gold medalists in 1924 and 1928 in what was to be a precursor to the inaugural World Cup in 1930).

Considering the dearth of information available, this is a commendable first draft of history.

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.

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).

Vaughan Hart, who teaches architectural history at the University of Bath, does a commendable job with this first in-depth study of Hawksmoor in almost 45 years.

It is one of British history's most ripping yarns, and the assembled historians do a commendable job of recounting it, in between the inevitable silly am-dram reconstructions.

A commendable statement, indeed.

It was a commendable aspiration.

That he had been a commendable governor?

But it was a commendable achievement nevertheless.