Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator at the Financial Times, hailed the extraordinary and admirable choice of a foreigner such as Mr. Carney to assume the country's most important official position, "even if Canadians are not very foreign".
The first state-of-the-union address of a president's second term is no time to be timid, and it was an admirable choice to bookend his proposals with appeals to good citizenship and a call to civic duty and reciprocity.Looking at the speech a week later, I am even more convinced Mr Obama hit it out of the park.
While I've long ago lost my own interest in bargain fashion, for children, who spill constantly, whose tastes are unpredictable, who grow quickly and who rarely notice if a shirt fades, pills or pulls, spending so little seems like the practical, even admirable, choice.
The Embassy of Cambodia – what a pleasure to write it in italics as an independently published work, rather than the inverted commas that style guides would demand of a short story in a volume – is an admirable choice for this treatment.
And Standing Tall, though not a perfect film, was certainly an admirable choice on their part.
If your mitts just can't grapple with something like the Galaxy S III or Galaxy Nexus (or if you just prefer a phone that's less conspicuous in your pocket), the Incredible 4G is an admirable choice in spite of its minor flaws.
It's her right and, indeed, may be a very admirable choice for her family.
And while that's an admirable choice, it's not one without its own set of consequences.
In early 1904, Benjamin Wheeler, president of the University of California, suggested to President Roosevelt that Lane would be an admirable choice to serve on the ICC.
It's an endeavor thousands of mothers we work with undertake daily and we salute them for the courageous and admirable choice they've made to lose weight and take charge of their own health.
