Sentence examples for laudable motives from inspiring English sources
Richer people in Latin American and Caribbean countries had poured their savings into Sir Allen's offshore schemes, seeking protection from instability at home (or for less laudable motives).
After all, while a commitment to chastity can be virtuous, it can also be born out of less than laudable motives: the need to exercise control, anger toward and fear of sex, and so on.
The problem, then, is that whatever the laudable motives of the giver, organisations with a rigid ethical code derived from scripture cannot help but view part of their job as proselytising for those values.
"We are in business to make money, like everybody else," he said with just a touch too much gruffness, as if unwilling to admit any ulterior, laudable motive.
But they combine two laudable motivations.
But I also see it driven by a laudable profit motive, not by any need of Germany to pander to its Muslim lobby.
A beautiful toddler gone missing will always be catnip to newspaper editors, but Kate and Gerry McCann also chose to make themselves active characters in the story, and though their motives were laudable, their relentless drive for publicity unsettled many.
Yellen's motives are certainly laudable.
It could be argued that there is nothing sinister about Prince Turki's wish to overcome ancient taboos that his motives are both peaceful and laudable.
Section 5 takes a look at how recent historically sensitive research in the philosophy of science suggests that self-interested motives can stand in proxy for epistemologically laudable goals within communities that are socially structured in the way that the scientific community is structured.
His motive here — to investigate desire without a blink or a blush — is laudable, but the look of it suggests that he rushed the project through, leaving the script to founder at the level of a student film.
