It commended a number of drug monitoring and rehabilitation teams for their work in trying to reduce drug and alcohol dependence.
In order "to live in accordance with the spirit," as Porphyry puts it, Plotinus commended an ascetic way of life: "The attention [Plotinus] devoted to himself was never relaxed, except during sleep; but he was prevented from sleeping, because he ate so little," Porphyry writes.
It commended the New York Police Department for initiating a program, in the wake of the Edwards shooting, to test officers for unconscious racial bias, something Mr. Stone said he hoped would be replicated across the country.
When we call something good, Hare writes, we commend it, where to commend a thing of a certain sort is to guide choice among things of that sort by implicit reference to a standard for such things.
To commend a thing is always to commend it in virtue of the nonmoral features it has.
It was commended as a comprehensive classification of organizational climate perceptions that reflects the integration of existing literature (Carr et al. 2003).
Make It Better: The obvious way to commend an employee is with a monetary bonus.
In fact, it was just featured in the December issue of Architectural Digest, with an essay by Lynne Cheney that notes that their "white nineteenth-century house has much to commend it: a lovely setting, a wide veranda from which to view the acres of surrounding greenery [and] gracious high-ceilinged rooms that manage to be both stately and inviting".
It was briefly opened this afternoon so that Chief Constable White could accept a protest letter from the Orange Order marchers, and although he was spat upon as he accepted it, he commended the crowd as a whole on their good behavior.
But it cannot be commended without a cautionary label.
