Sentence examples similar to is not laudable from inspiring English sources

This isn't to say originality doesn't exist or isn't laudable, only that it's not necessarily the end point.

"My children are taught it's not laudable to strive to be the fastest or most skilful.

I'm not suggesting that those aren't laudable subjects, but they don't have an application in this industry.

President-elect President-elect Obamaot a laudable exercise of political compromise; it is a reprehensible act of moral appeasement.

This is not only a laudable goal but also an imperative need.

Roman Polanski has admitted to a sexual crime against a child and spent three decades evading justice for it -- this is not admirable or laudable.

Glimmerglass's initiative in presenting repertory that is not widely performed is laudable in principle, but not if it means sacrificing a work's very essence.

What makes Farah's achievement all the more laudable is not just his ability to get over the physical lows and emotional highs of that first victory, won in his home city at its home Olympics, but the backstory that brought him to this point.

Last week the New York Times reported that even though Dimon's massive pay package was inconceivable to most ordinary Americans: "... in the world of executive compensation, especially when viewed from the rarefied perspective of other chief executives, and more broadly on Wall Street, Mr. Dimon's pay -- and how it is determined -- is not only defensible, but laudable".

While this approach is laudable, it is not enough.

"What we're doing is not only above-board, but laudable," he said.