On the surface, this appears to be a laudable purpose, but whenever you hear those words "true to contemporary life," run for cover.
"Medicine should not kill someone even for the laudable purpose of helping someone else," said Micheline Mathews-Roth, an associate professor at Harvard Medical School who testified against the bill last month.
Moreover the changes in the application of Cleanfeed from 2011 onwards, in particular its use to block file sharing websites, is a clear development of a technology designed for a laudable purpose; to police paedophiles, to another less clear-cut application the policing of file sharing.
But much to their credit, they did not let the law's laudable purpose, or the fact that the restriction was less than a total ban, exempt the government from having to use the least restrictive way of achieving its goal.
This underlines the laudable purpose and scientific method of the volume, in that the images are being published in their entirety as the foundation for their study.
For strictly journalistic purposes, I decided to talk with Holl about his laudable purpose in life, which is to spread the gospel of beer.
That's because one laudable purpose of the Affordable Care Act was to eliminate threadbare health plans that covered too little and left policyholders vulnerable to bankruptcy in the event of a major illness or injury.
The startup founder was named by Forbes as the world's richest and youngest female self-made billionaire, and her company Theranos seemed to actually serve a laudable purpose, unlike many other Silicon Valley firms: It promised a cheaper, faster way to test blood for everything from potassium to herpes.
Excuses aside, by using lame or impenetrable terms, organizations that serve laudable public purposes do not advance their chances in the competition for foundation funds -- not when most jargon and cliches can be avoided with a little effort.
A laudable aim, of course.
