Sentence examples for not laudable from inspiring English sources

"My children are taught it's not laudable to strive to be the fastest or most skilful.

The willingness to be loyal, whatever the rights and wrongs of the situation might be, in order to remain loyal to one's Lord, however evil or foolhardy he might be, is not an adequate or rational position, and it is surely not laudable ethically.

I'm not suggesting that those aren't laudable subjects, but they don't have an application in this industry.

This isn't to say originality doesn't exist or isn't laudable, only that it's not necessarily the end point.

President-elect President-elect Obamaot a laudable exercise of political compromise; it is a reprehensible act of moral appeasement.

As New York was disproportionately represented in Ms. Abramovitch's book, so too were notable, if not exactly laudable, periods of local history, if only by implication.

What's perhaps not as laudable is affixing a $599 price to a stool test, albeit a sophisticated test that analyzes DNA.

The thinness that I managed in college didn't reflect laudable self-control.

Businesses need to play a greater role in improving education access – and not just for laudable philanthropic reasons.

Paddy Tomkins, chief constable of Lothian and Borders police, said: "We will be making every effort to ensure that a relatively small number of people with criminal intent do not exploit the laudable aims of the tens of thousands of people travelling to Edinburgh to seek a better life for the poorest and most vulnerable".

In the late '50s and early '60s, you could not get a laudable restaurant meal in Boston outside the Ritz, Locke-Ober, Durgin-Park, Union Oyster House (called the oldest continuously operating restaurant in the land) and a few secret ethnic joints patronized by homesick students here from the far-flung corners to do graduate work at one of the many universities.