The legislation which at first insisted that food had a "sell by" date started as a very laudable way of ensuring that retailers could not pass off old food as fresh.
Not just to support himself financially, but to express himself in an artistically laudable way.
Though Bret Easton Ellis is a good example of someone who "made it" early—he famously published his first book, Less Than Zero, at 21 it's very normal for a writer at my age to struggle both to support himself financially and express himself in an artistically laudable way.
And while a lot of the money generated by its biggest night goes toward putting on the actual event, the Academy spreads the wealth around in a number of laudable ways, most important through its archive's tremendous film collection, preservation and restoration undertakings.
One young man who lost four brothers and one of his arms said afterwards: 'How can anybody expect me to wear a T-shirt with Kony's name on it?'" He added: "For all the victims, the attempt to make Kony famous so as to prop up public support for his apprehension is laudable but the way this goal is pursued in the video is inappropriate and ignores their feelings.
Rather, it's a rational — and in certain ways, laudable — response to an age of female empowerment and material abundance.
The impulse to see an American failure at the root of every international tragedy is understandable, and in some ways laudable; it testifies to a sense of responsibility and a capacity for self-criticism.
The idea, laudable in some ways, is to connect the phones used in kidnappings and drug deals with their owners.
At The Guardian's website, Guy Dammann applauds the movement's aim as "in many ways laudable", but argues that it is absurd to believe that humans will voluntarily seek extinction.
Emma Bovary's response to a loveless union is the opposite of settling down with some needlework and making the best of things; there is a laudable extravagance to the way in which she sets about causing her own destruction, fitting in two failed affairs, bankruptcy and a lingering suicide before the marriage is over.
But while skepticism is always warranted where the next generation is concerned (children that is, not the next generation of wearables), it's laudable in a general way to try to match the capabilities of technology with the needs (well, "needs") of educators, and specifically PE, an hour of the school day often overlooked.
