Sentence examples for praise for efforts from inspiring English sources

The department won praise for efforts to improve relations with minorities, but its overall approach to race relations was viewed as flawed.

Mr. White said that Mr. Walder faced criticism for presiding over a fare increase and service cuts, but that he won praise for efforts to improve bus service and make the agency more transparent.

Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck compared the effect of praise for talent and praise for effort.

"Kids who are praised for effort, those kids learn that intelligence is something that can be built".

Only 23% of children who had been praised for effort asked for this type of feedback, with the vast majority of them asking for feedback about how they could do better.

Children who had been praised for being smart became far more likely to view intellect as a fixed entity — determined at birth and stable throughout life — whereas those praised for effort became more likely to see it as a result of hard work that could improve and grow over time.

What's more, they became more likely to misrepresent their scores to others: thirty-eight per cent of the children who had been praised for their intelligence inflated the number of problems they'd solved correctly, compared with just thirteen per cent of those who were praised for effort.

Captain Eoin Morgan was full of praise for their efforts.

Today, however, the government won praise for its efforts to provide expensive drugs free.

Peres won worldwide praise for his efforts in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks in the 1990s.

He has also won wide praise for outreach efforts in Cleveland neighborhoods.