Call that particular gesture post-Rudd trauma, and it's laudable in theory.
It is both easy and fashionable to ridicule such comments ("Stop whining, Mr. President. And stop whiffing," Maureen Dowd snarked last spring), but they are laudable in important respects.
Although the law is laudable in some respects — it includes measures to diversify the industry, which is too concentrated — it also seems designed to weaken Clarín.
"In theory this bill is laudable; in practice it is unconstitutional," said Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson, the Texas Democrat who is chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus.
Brown's ambitions were laudable in wanting to move towards a modern constitution, but the government's efforts have not been encouraging.
The 10 Tips campaign is laudable in a lightweight sort of way, but Mr. Corzine and the other speakers also had bigger things on their minds.
The plan is laudable in its ambition but lacks detail: one developer worries that the corporations will find it hard to overcome objections from NIMBYs.Labour also sees expensive houses as a potential source of new revenue.
Re "Schools Confronting Proficiency Demands," by Joseph Berger (On Education column, regional sections, March 23): As a pediatric neuropsychologist, I believe that the objective of the No Child Left Behind Act is laudable in its aspiration to raise the educational achievement of all students, notably those who are functioning below expected levels.
The decision is laudable in that it acknowledges beluga sturgeon is threatened with extinction, but it doesn't go nearly far enough toward protecting them, says fisheries scientist Ellen Pikitch, director of the University of Miami's Pew Institute for Ocean Science and lead scientist of Caviar Emptor.
