Sentence examples for would be praiseworthy from inspiring English sources

The zeal of Maxime Verhagen, the Dutch foreign minister, in insisting on accountability for offences against humanity would be praiseworthy if it was consistent with his approach to other conflicts.

Certainly it would be praiseworthy if designers were "motivated by a sense of incorporating positive things from previously marginalized subjects," said Harold Koda, the curator of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

There's no doubt that excessive fees can curtail deployment and it would be praiseworthy of the FCC to tackle that.

I think that there are actually two movies at hand — the one that Cianfrance seems to have thought he was making, and that would indeed be praiseworthy; and the one that's present on-screen, which is an overdetermined blend of a TV commercial and an acting class — and the disparity between them is the most interesting thing about it.

Edward Wierenga counters this by claiming that whatever God chooses to do is good, but that his nature means that his actions would always be praiseworthy.

Considering that Gov. David A. Paterson has already signed the law easing consolidation of special districts and local governments, this would be another praiseworthy reform.

Moreover, as Leibniz argued, "In saying… that things are not good according to any standard of goodness, but simply by the will of God, it seems to me that one destroys, without realizing it, all the love of God and all his glory; for why praise him for what he has done, if he would be equally praiseworthy in doing the contrary?

Except for a small dry lobster tail and a few sandy clams, a special of black linguine with two huge shrimp would have been praiseworthy as well.

VOWS of chastity may be praiseworthy, but 80m years is ridiculous.

Like Mr Chait, I don't mean this moralistically; certainly progressives think the party would be more morally praiseworthy if it were more truculent, not less.

From an intrinsic perspective, it is often considered whether it would be better, more praiseworthy, or more authentic, if a person betters herself without resorting to biomedical means?