Sentence examples for may commend from inspiring English sources

And if we use possessions to gain that life with God, Jesus may commend us, as he did the dishonest manager in the reading.

The substitution of dynamic communities for punctual origins in order to explain the emergence and divergence of biological and perhaps cultural trends (such as the origin of languages) may commend itself as a general principle.

Since the expression of p75NTR, which binds to sortilin to mediate neuronal cell death (Nykjaer et al., 2004) and modulates cholinergic transmission (Yang et al., 2002), was also found significantly elevated in mutant cells when compared with wild-type), one may commend that under pathological conditions dysregulation of sortilin may upregulate p75NTR expression levels.

We may reasonably commend Nike for good intentions.

Persistent fluorescent chlorophyll catabolites, which are endogenously provided by (one branch of the split path of) chlorophyll breakdown, may, hence, commend themselves as natural molecular in-vivo reporters of senescence and senescence-associated cell-death symptoms.

Clarke may be commended for his chutzpah.

It may be commended for its subtlety; what it needs is a more surprising twist.

As a perfect blend of the utterly unexceptionable (not too experimental, not too elitist, not too grubby, not too posh), his choice of events may be commended.

The judges wrote on Thursday that the city "may be commended for aiming to address serious and growing public health problems".

In doing so he addressed many nonconformist gatherings; the historian Owen Chadwick suggests that this may have commended him to David Lloyd George, who became prime minister in 1916.

Dweck tells us that praising the process versus praising intelligence "may involve commending effort, strategies, focus, persistence in the face of difficulty, and willingness to take on challenges".