Sentence examples for the commendable from inspiring English sources

In the Netherlands, this recognition has led to the commendable Room for the River initiative, which protect urban centres by reversing many centuries of dyke building and reconnecting rivers to their floodplains to allow them to fill and store flood waters.

Much the same holds for the former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, minus the commendable actions.

For all the commendable efficiency of this performance, I was left feeling emotionally short-changed.

Despite the commendable focus on long-term horizons, that still matters.

The former Labor government significantly expanded Australia's marine national parks, growing the commendable work done under the conservative Howard government.

This last dimension is too often missing from the commendable work of "social entrepreneurs," both young and old.

This enables the government to stick by the commendable commitment to spending 0.7% of GDP on overseas development.

But in her actual day job she displayed the commendable patience that would have been an essential asset had she being dealing with a roomful of tiny terrors.

But Yael Farber's insistence on an optimistic ending undermines the source material and nearly undoes all the commendable work that preceded it (1 30).

In Hungary, the commendable idea of integrating Roma and non-Roma children in the same schools has sent parents scurrying elsewhere.But there are some shoots of hope.

Retreating in order to avoid violence is not the commendable act of a prudent man, but the act of a coward, of someone who runs away.