The phrase "worthwhile achievement" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to an accomplishment that is considered to be admirable and worthwhile. For example: "Earning a doctorate degree is a worthwhile achievement that took me years of hard work."
Yet St Johnstone's manager, Tommy Wright, bristles when it is put to him that reaching this showpiece game is a worthwhile achievement in itself.
She's not the first person to win an Oscar based as much on politics as the work itself, but it's disappointing that the media circus rendered a worthwhile achievement into something approaching a charity case.
If these "reforms" do indeed guarantee the best outcomes and will restore our standing as the greatest nation on the planet, if that is at all a worthwhile achievement in 2012, then why would the expensive tuition packages the best of us are able to afford not include these initiatives?
In other words, take full advantage of losing 8 pounds, and being noticed for it; or pursue some other, equally modest but worthwhile achievement.
It is the work that makes them worthwhile -- the achievement is everything.
During the 2008 campaign and his first year in office, President Obama's posture was popular with almost everyone: the law embodies worthwhile goals like narrowing the achievement gap between minority and white students, he said, but includes flawed provisions that need fixing.
Researching aspirations and following up their tentative achievement is a worthwhile effort because they still mirror migrants' desired future, and their relative autonomy and efficacy in shaping it.
In that regard, the county's achievement is a worthwhile reminder that job creation is best pursued as a team sport in which the public and private sectors operate together.
The worship of success inspires not just extraordinary achievements but also worthwhile failures.
But there's something about the exactitude of being an athlete and being able to judge your day and your accomplishment and achievement that makes it worthwhile".
While I concur with Margolick's criticism that "ordinary folks" are "missing" from "Life Upon These Shores," Gates's book is nonetheless a worthwhile 21st-century addition to "black achievement literature".
