Sentence examples for in a laudable from inspiring English sources

"It is not uncommon for the more cynical among us to be overly rude to this particular species, in a laudable attempt not to appear obsequious," she observes.

That was also the year in which James convened the Hampton Court Conference, gathering together mainstream Anglicans and crosspatch Puritans in a laudable attempt to find some liturgical common ground, while at the same time bolstering his own authority.

On Broadway and in a laudable string of film credits that included Get Shorty and True Romance, the man breathed life into unglamorous men the way only a true character actor can.

In a laudable desire for historical authenticity, Bragg recreates his sermons by using snippets of genuine quotes from the excommunicate chaplain's own letters: unfortunately, these are cryptic and tame moral aphorisms that give no idea of the visceral appeal to heart and soul that inspired the rebels to leave their homes and take up arms.

In a laudable move — especially for Sony, once the king of propriety accessories — there's no specific stylus required here.

In a laudable attempt to discourage abusive NPE litigation, the act increases costs for everyone and ties the hands of the judges who are at the front lines of the problem.

While the understanding of mechanisms of disease is in itself a laudable goal, an added utility of murine models lies in the preclinical testing of novel therapeutic agents.

First it was the £3.8bn Better Care Fund in June 2013, a laudable attempt to encourage clinical commissioning groups and councils to join up health and social care.

Away from the Croisette, the encroachment of hard-core imagery into mainstream cinema seems ubiquitous, facilitated, in part, by a laudable relaxation of censorship standards in the UK.

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

The Oslo peace accord in 1993 was a laudable effort to resolve the Israel-Palestine tangle; a 1996 peace accord in Guatemala was nudged along with Norwegian help; a Norwegian negotiator has been trying to get Colombia's government and various rebels to talk; in Sri Lanka a tentative peace deal was concluded last August with help from Oslo.