The phrase "a laudable effort to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to commend or praise an attempt or initiative that is considered worthy or deserving of admiration.
Example: "The organization made a laudable effort to improve community health through various outreach programs."
Alternatives: "a commendable attempt to" or "an admirable endeavor to".
So, a laudable effort to change our perceptions of beauty?
This may be a laudable effort to ensure that responsibility is spread throughout the organisation.
It is a laudable effort to keep federal financing rules from crimping advances on this frontier of human biology.
Others have praised the program, which they called a laudable effort to circumvent Cuban restrictions on Internet freedom.
In what at first might seem a laudable effort to put the public interest ahead of his own financial gain, Mr. Trump called for abolishing the loophole.
The Oslo peace accord in 1993 was a laudable effort to resolve the Israel-Palestine tangle; a 1996 peace accord in Guatemala was nudged along with Norwegian help; a Norwegian negotiator has been trying to get Colombia's government and various rebels to talk; in Sri Lanka a tentative peace deal was concluded last August with help from Oslo.
Therefore, the Humanium Metal Initiative is a laudable effort at making this world more peaceful through concrete human action," the Dalai Lama is quoted as saying on the Humanium Metal web site.
We are sure we missed some good ones and all readers are invited to suggest any laudable efforts to define centrism in the comments below, but to start off the discussion, we decided to put the following thoughts together.
But in our laudable effort to avoid racial profiling, we must not damage our national security by painting a benign picture of China's espionage techniques.
At times, in his laudable effort to critique biological arguments, especially the idea that talent is dispensed by the luck of the genetic draw, Gladwell goes too far.
To the editor: K.C. Cole's laudable effort to encourage tolerance of opposing views by comparing it to wave-particle duality in quantum mechanics is undermined by the brute reality that not all frames of reference are equally valid.
