And now he wished for his company again, repenting he had not made better use of it when he had it, and had given no greater heed to his admirable lessons.
His story is admirable and filled with lessons for those who are seeking to get out of bad situations and improve their life.
It was unfortunate that the Russians then ignored the requirement to pull their troops out of Georgia proper, but Mr Sarkozy had a response to this too: he threatened to call an EU summit.Mr Sarkozy's activism may be admirable, but not all the lessons he is drawing from the crisis are convincing.
It had all the qualities of a sitcom geared to younger viewers: an admirable, if sometimes irreverent, lead, and a moral lesson embedded in each episode.
That's nice -- it's even admirable -- but without a clear larger lesson it isn't art.
I hope that some highly positive lessons are learned from this admirable attempt to find another way.
His moral instinct is admirable.
But the debates about debates both on the Democratic and Republican side of the race led to both admirable and questionable negotiation behaviors that suggest key lessons for professional dealmakers.
