Sentence examples for a laudable exercise from inspiring English sources

President-elect President-elect Obamaot a laudable exercise of political compromise; it is a reprehensible act of moral appeasement.

Thus he condemns a federal "individual mandate" to buy health insurance as an affront to liberty, while defending the nearly identical policy he instituted as governor of Massachusetts as a laudable exercise in state sovereignty.

But not all Britons find the $8.8 trillion sum (5 trillion in pounds) or the statisticians' attempts to compute a price at all, a laudable exercise in spending the taxpayers' money.

In John Phillips Duellum Musicumm, a 1673 pamphlet concerning music tuition, there is a criticism of a rival author called Thomas Salmon who had boasted of being a graduate of Trinity College, Oxford: "He shews but a slender sign of his University-Education: Where he seems to have spent his time rather in the more laudable Exercises of Trap and Cricket, than in any sound Reading".

Overall, I believe this is a laudable proposal for a code of practice in academic peer review.

This is a laudable, indeed, an important goal, and the authors use a battery of appropriate, sensitive and powerful methods.

Reducing automobile use, without harming retail business, is a laudable goal.

A laudable sentiment, perhaps.

For a laudable cause?

A laudable objective.

It's a laudable goal.