These reforms, though laudable, look like a last-minute attempt to head off stronger action.
Laudable as all this is, it looks like a quick fix, rather than a much-needed overhaul of a culture of dependence, waste and secrecy.
Heroic fightbacks may be laudable, but giving the opposition a 16-point start almost looked laughable as Leicester Tigers bowed out of the Heineken Cup with a 22-16 defeat at Clermont Auvergne.
It is pursuing an aggressive anti-corruption drive which, though laudable in principle, has created uncertainty in the economy, causing a worrisome drop in investment.In any case the restoration of democracy looks far-off.
The president's desire to look forward rather than back is laudable, but it is leaving him seriously exposed.
In a city abundant with trained waiters and cooks looking for work, the course "is laudable, and adds to the students' value, but so would work experience at Gramercy Tavern," said Clark Wolf, a restaurant consultant based in New York.
Sustainable fashion is laudable, but if it doesn't look good, no one's going to buy it.
Without finance, the sustainable development goals agreed by UN member states in September are just laudable normative statements of what the world should look like, lacking the means to make it that way.
But I've just looked it up and I see that in 1979 he was still at Norwich, which somehow makes his attendance more laudable, and puzzling.
Mr. Archer's narrative ambitions are laudable, and some of his images (the cinematographer is Aaron Platt) are striking, though a lot of scenes also look like glossy fashion magazine layouts come to relative life.
