Sentence examples for have little to commend from inspiring English sources

But beyond that, price controls have "little to commend them".

The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and his "business partner", Mrs Lovett, Victorian penny dreadful characters, have little to commend them in human terms, but for reasons that can only be to do with their interesting non-vegan cuisine, they remain popular.

Lucy argues against the notion that the "ten percent solution" is a do-good effort, which frankly would have little to commend it to leaders of corporate America: "This isn't altruism, mind you, but enlightened self-interest; investment in a stronger company and certainly a stronger America in which the company does business".

He made much of the fact that workers on lower-to-middle earnings would benefit from the reform.Labour's move to raise revenue by pushing up payroll contributions, a stealthier tax than most, had little to commend it.

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.

Apart from a short coast with white, sandy beaches, which along with a bustling sex trade catering to middle-aged women provide the basis of a small tourism industry, it is entirely surrounded by Senegal.Its president, Yahya Jammeh, who has run the desperately poor country since he took power in a coup in 1994, has little to commend him.

The ballets were sensibly chosen John Taras's "De signs With Strings" is ideal for this kind of program, as is Balanchine's "Grand Pas— Glazounov". Artistically, Wil liam Dollar's "The Combat" has little to commend it, yet it is always popular and gives a certain opportunity for dance acting of a quite odious intensity.

Then you will be put in solitary confinement, still a widely used form of punishment, which has little to commend it beyond the fact that it so steadfastly avoids the notion of progress.

They had commended and awarded a major prize to a book demonstrating that private gun ownership was rare in early America, a finding that implied that the Second Amendment had little to do with individual rights.

There is little to commend in Mr Obama on that front.

"Inspectors found that, overall, services were poor and there was little to commend.