"praiseworthy efforts" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use "praiseworthy efforts" when you want to describe someone's actions or work as deserving praise or admiration. Example: The team's praiseworthy efforts in collecting donations for the charity drive helped raise over $10,000.
The diplomat, Robert Brinkley, the British high commissioner to Pakistan, said that although the Pakistani government had made praiseworthy efforts to find and detain terrorists, "the fight is not finished".
Such a survey could also avoid a single perspective or monocular vision; that would only lead to exhibitions like "Science in American Life" from 1994, in which American science after 1940 takes on a villainous or banal cast with ominous innovations like atomic energy and insecticides mitigated by a few praiseworthy efforts (like the invention of the contraceptive pill).
If the exclusionary rule were to be applied in this and similar situations, praiseworthy efforts of law enforcement authorities would be seriously, and quite unnecessarily, hampered; the evidence lawfully obtained under a lengthy series of valid warrants might, for example, be lost by the haste of a single magistrate.
When our public servants sustain injuries -- psychic or physical -- in the course of saving lives, we ought to treat that consequence while continuing to support them in their praiseworthy efforts.
"I'm indebted to the Red Cross for allowing me to tag along this week as they continue in their praiseworthy efforts at helping to save lives and bring hope whenever possible, wherever it is needed".
It is meant to be light commercial entertainment, and in the category of horror films it stands as a praiseworthy effort.
A genuinely praiseworthy effort would involve a more thoughtful account of why white Southerners, and especially white Republican Southerners, have been reluctant to discuss the historical facts about slavery and its legacy in their states.
Recently, in a praiseworthy effort to assess the exposition, and to appraise the French reaction fairly, "Combat", the Leftist non-Communist daily, ran a series of signed articles by its Guy Demur.
And, they have made a praiseworthy effort to demonstrate how Brunswik's insights can be applied to many kinds of organisms or systems, at many levels and, at the same time, contribute to the management of social complexity.
Today, nearly all historians view slavery as the war's fundamental cause, Emancipation as central to its meaning and consequences, and Reconstruction as a praiseworthy effort to establish the principle of racial justice in the United States.
In a praiseworthy effort towards objectivity, general encyclopedias and other sourcebooks soon actually began characterizing the Qumran-sectarian interpretation as a theory - which it actually had been, despite public understanding to the contrary, from the very beginning.
