Sentence examples for commends- from inspiring English sources

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.

He commends Richard II for its lessons in the distractions of perks.

Instead, he counselled: "Interest yourself chiefly in the progress of your journey and do not look forward to its end with eagerness".His instructions for dealing with Africans are generally humane, though not (as the introduction delicately puts it) something "which commends itself to modern thinking".

But they inadvertently laid the groundwork for hostility between non-whites.Kirk Dawes, a black former police officer who now runs a mediation service in Birmingham, commends the way in which the police and the council have purged overt racists from their ranks.

"The Navigators" commends itself to Le Monde as a commentary on "l'interminable agonie de ce qui fut le système circulatoire du capitalisme anglais".

In short, rather than demand any change to the foreign policy of the past seven years, Mr Podhoretz commends more of the same, but with more resolve.

Although that commends them to some, it can also be a weakness if hardly a senseless one.

Then maybe 20 years from now we can hold a formal free referendum in Tibet to decide its fate and satisfy the international standard for democracy.Lawrence RenGuangzhou, ChinaA bitter eraSIR – Ronald Holdaway (Letters, April 12th) commends Dick Cheney for trying "to shape public opinion rather than be shaped by it".

However, anti-trade passions can be difficult to control, once unleashed.Clive Crook commends Mr Levy and then muses:The piece mentions recent and much-cited research by University of Chicago economists Christian Broda and John Romalis, suggesting that trade has disproportionately lowered the prices of goods that are important to poor Americans.

He rightly commends Byzantium for preserving the ideals, and aesthetics, of classical antiquity at a time when Europe was subsiding into savagery.However, in this abridgment of his three-volume history, Lord Norwich appears to feel that such admiration speaks for itself.

As a result, the whole is worth rather less than the sum of the parts.When Mr Fisk at last conducts his interview with Mr bin Laden on that bare Afghan mountain in 1997, the Saudi son of a billionaire, who later commends him as a rare western reporter who is "neutral", says: "Mr Robert, from this mountain upon which you are sitting, we broke the Russian army and we destroyed the Soviet Union.