Sentence examples for rather laudable from inspiring English sources

Which, perhaps, make it rather laudable that Mr Brown is having a go.

Readers must remain, for editors, a misty though rather laudable group, somewhere out there in the great beyond.

This seems questionable rather than laudable from a gender perspective.

The president's desire to look forward rather than back is laudable, but it is leaving him seriously exposed.

"Creating competition on the high street is laudable, but rather more difficult than perhaps the commission and the government give credit to.

It is undoubtedly the case that, unless we have greater transparency in pay and in bonuses in both the public and the private sector, the prospect of equal pay remains a laudable aim rather than a target to be achieved.

In John Phillips Duellum Musicumm, a 1673 pamphlet concerning music tuition, there is a criticism of a rival author called Thomas Salmon who had boasted of being a graduate of Trinity College, Oxford: "He shews but a slender sign of his University-Education: Where he seems to have spent his time rather in the more laudable Exercises of Trap and Cricket, than in any sound Reading".

All this seems appropriate and even laudable, but the reality is rather different.

In this regard, it reframes developing country contributions with respect to deforestation as a laudable service to the world community, rather than simply a reduction in bad behavior.

Rather, it's a rational — and in certain ways, laudable — response to an age of female empowerment and material abundance.

It can be both refreshing and reassuring to see an object whose appearance is determined by such laudable qualities as economy, efficiency or reliability, rather than the hope of seducing us visually.