Sentence examples for on a worthwhile from inspiring English sources

In Brkic's case, this courage manifests itself in more than her determination to take on a worthwhile and serious subject.

President Obama's disturbing silence on his commission's efforts — while members of his party take political shots — makes it even less likely the commissioners will agree on a worthwhile final draft.

You'll fit perfectly in an outreach or fundraising team, where you can help people spend their money on a worthwhile cause by finding them, engaging them, schmoozing and building relationships with them.

The question of what the Commonwealth Games counts for in the 21st century will be debated for some time to come after the last few weeks, but for Britain's leading cyclist, Mark Cavendish, it is a no-brainer: the Games is a force for good, and his fellow sportsmen – including most of England's leading cyclists – who opted not to travel missed out on a worthwhile experience.

Once you have those small teams set up with their missions in place, you have to establish rules and metrics that allow them to work quickly, but still have a set of milestones they have to meet to prove they are on a worthwhile project for the company.

Let's take some of those dollars that we pay out on fake science and so-called miracle weight-loss products and spend them on a worthwhile alternative.

He added: "I think she's going to have some difficulty justifying to her members that they ought to carry on funding on such a worthwhile body if the money is spent in such a flippant way".

Investors got a positive surprise from the nonfarm payrolls portion of the report, which showed the pace of job losses slowed, but unemployment hopped up to 9.4% and put the kibosh on any hopes for a worthwhile rally.

Mark Ruffalo trolled fellow actor Paul Rudd for a worthwhile reason on Thursday.

One of the featured matches on Centre Court, however, was a worthwhile one, Robin Soderling's rebound from two sets down to beat Lleyton Hewitt, which pointed out the once-unfathomable fact that Hewitt has actually become a crowd favorite, writes Jon Wertheim on SI.com.

On Capitol Hill, a worthwhile if modest package of gun control measures remains bottled up in a House-Senate conference committee -- providing grist for this fall's battle between the Democrats and Republicans for control of Congress.