But unlike so many of today's pseudostars of reality television, Zohn put his relative celebrity to a laudable use: he cofounded Grassroots Soccer, a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to educating African children about AIDS.
New recruits are told that slipping out during the afternoon for several hours to see a child's game or a school play is a laudable use of time.
I used to be loyal to Lonely Planet (in fact, they play a major and laudable role in my debut novel) but then the BBC bought them out and watered them down.
However laudable the goal, using the capital gains tax "is a misguided approach," said Mr. Burman (a view echoed by everyone I interviewed).
However laudable that aim, using it to determine vice-chancellors' pay might distort admissions decisions.Previous administrations have struggled with this issue.
Mr. Nieve, leading the Brodsky String Quartet and the saxophonist Ned Rothenberg from behind his piano, used laudable restraint as both composer and conductor.
Many grapes have multiple names, and though the authors made a laudable effort to use the name by which it is best known in its country of origin — grenache and mourvèdre, for example, are listed under their Spanish names, garnacha and monastrell — the principle sometimes defies common sense.
Mountain View, with its low-density housing and relative lack of mass transit (there are some buses and trains), is not designed in this way, so Google's proposal to increase bicycle and shuttle use is laudable, according to Platkin, but doesn't alter the underlying lack of transportation infrastructure.
As Dominic Coyte of Borough Cheese Company tells me, although organics is "a totally laudable reaction to the obsessive use of chemicals, it's not in itself a green light for quality and best practice".
It was laudable that Big Sister had used her money, and then raised the additional funds by convinced Little Sister to invest, too.
