Sentence examples for despite laudable from inspiring English sources

Despite laudable registration campaigns, the opt-in system can no longer be expected to fulfil its purpose.

Despite laudable efforts by humanitarian aid organisations to deliver materials to those in need, and the humanitarian norms prohibiting the restriction of their access to areas in need of essential materials,21 some areas remain rife with crisis.

Stamp [ 11] notes that despite laudable strides in formal education and modernization, issues of rights and privileges for men, women, and children are still largely constructed in indigenous terms in most parts of contemporary Africa.

Plenty, despite the laudable efforts of Equity, find themselves working on projects with low or no pay.

Despite this laudable approach, he's not about to lambast those who aren't so attuned to nature's flux.

Steve Mariucci wore out his welcome in San Francisco, despite a laudable record, and all but caught a direct flight to Detroit.

Much recent evidence indicates that the mass media still tend, despite some laudable attempts to overcome gender bias, to reinforce conventional notions of masculinity.

Yet despite the laudable rhetoric of this speech, McCain voted for a procedural motion that allowed McConnell to bring various Obamacare-repeal measures to a vote.

Despite this laudable effort, an outcome like that in the Tyson case — in which a company admits the facts and pays a fine but no individuals are charged — hardly seems isolated.

Matthew Maguire's play — about two couples, all biologists, tackling a SARS outbreak in the South while struggling to resolve their relationships — gets bogged down in its multiple, diffuse concerns, despite its laudable attempt at humanizing professionals in scientific fields (1 30).

The infrastructure and technology deficit caused by the devastating collapse of the rail system between the 1950s and 1980s is still vast, despite the laudable efforts made in recent years to rebuild at least the transcontinental trunk lines.