Sentence examples for commend it as from inspiring English sources

And in zero tolerance he is dealing with a policy that has much to commend it, as well as much to condemn.The essence of zero tolerance, a policy now applied over much of the country, is that the punishment of specified misdemeanours should be rapid and inexorable.

The fact that the STSS score is measured at a single point in time, its accuracy, and its easily collected component variables commend it as an alternative reproducible system to facilitate the triage and treatment of patients in any future influenza pandemic.

This approach may have much to commend it as a child-rearing technique, but Thomas would make it mandatory.

Without political stability, Bahrain has little to commend it as a business or leisure destination.The longer the economy remains flat, the more Bahrain will be forced to lean on neighbouring Saudi Arabia for support.

Restraint has much to commend it as a judicial value, not least of which is that it extends the hand of tolerance and respect to those whose views we may not share, but whose citizenship we do share and whose love of family, community and country burns no less brightly than our own.

Unfortunately, his proposal does not include either of the two things that would commend it as a serious effort: taxes on carbon emissions, or mandatory limits on them.In principle, taxes and targets are equally efficient ways to reduce a given pollutant, although, as The Economist has long argued, the tax approach has the advantage of simplicity.

I am not commending it as a way to think, but the song sums up a particular way of seeing the world which is very common, which is confused and afraid but also confident.

For his part, Farr was breezily upbeat about Spielberg's adaptation, commending it as a "cracking film" that will bring new readers to Tintin and, by extension, to Tintinology.

The piece is also in large measure a history of the evolution of the climate-change-sceptic movement, and the Columbia Journalism Review commends it as the kind of open engagement with an ongoing public debate that should serve as a model.

Medieval: Total War received acclaim from reviewers; several critics commending it as a milestone in gaming.

GameSpot commended it as "not just a fine Castlevania game--it's also one of the better Game Boy Advance games to come around in a while".