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Spreading democracy around the world is no magic bullet, even if it is a laudable long-term goal.

It is laudable as well that Lee has decided to donate the prize money to help nurture Taiwan's budding filmmakers.

You'd have to be some kind of cynic or misanthrope to object to such a laudable goal.

A laudable, noble sentiment. But impractical, unless the father will marry you and give the child a name.

Indeed, it is likely that the laudable extension of insurance coverage now makes it more important to tackle the question of costs.

Nonetheless, his attempt to reach out to Nigerians directly is laudable.

Many nominees appear to have been excluded for laudable reasons: their backgrounds as warlords or suspicions of corruption and incompetence.

Walking for walking's sake may be as highly laudable and exemplary a thing as it is held to be by those who practise it.

well , madame , it will be a laudable action on your part , and i will thank you for it !

Spencer believed that individual freedom was the most laudable goal in society, and he sought to protect it from infringement by others.

Part of the reason for the intense interest in infants was Labour's laudable desire to improve social mobility.

However, an Internet user identified as "yunzhuiyue" said the ceremonies are laudable.

Walking for walking's sake may be as highly laudable a thing as it is held to be by those who practise it.

The level of access that the venerable publication has continued to provide has been laudable.

The article can be regarded as a laudable enumeration of the points of academic discussion still associated with cost-utility analyses.

At the same time he pushed an anti-corruption agenda, which (while laudable) was highly politicised and often did not follow due process.

Furthermore, their exaggerated emotionalism occasionally made a mockery of some of their most laudable intentions.

Nevertheless, her soft-spoken, pragmatic style is respected, and many of her ideas strike me as laudable common sense.

China's relationsh­ ip with the shunned countries is laudable, at least they are being corralled in by China.

That is because, laudable as their goal might be, the new liquidity guidelines are likely to do more harm than good.

As laudable as this intention may be, it raises several issues regarding distribution, notably with regard to supply and demand.

The contemporary 'art' that advocates social and political intervention, while laudable for its virtues, is decidedly ineffective.

Those are laudable goals, but some believe the main motivation for this new effort is simpler: containing costs.

Right now, the U. S. government's boldness is laudable, but it is being bold in spending money.

The FBI has embarked on a laudable and proactive programme to establish ties with the amateur biology community.

Perhaps, only first and business classes in every airline can be actually laudable.

China's seizure of the moment is laudable.

Walking for walking's sake may be as highly laudable and exemplary a thing as is held by those who practice it.

However laudable the aims may have been, the results were precisely what one would expect.

Even if the goodwill, products, technology, etc, also want really laudable, grasping abuse praise.

Admiration, though, while a laudable reaction, is less likely to spur us on than a solid dose of benign envy.

In the emerging world China's boldness is laudable, and fat reserve cushions have also given other emerging economies more room.

This is being done in the name of the laudable objectives of economic growth and rural development.

China's achievement in lifting vast numbers of people out of poverty is laudable.

His laudable project is an urgent message on the vital issue of global warming.

However laudable, these projects should be delayed for better times.

Many of their social policies, which the Maoists describe as a war against "feudalism" , are also laudable.

The initiatives to make school breakfasts and lunches healthy are truly laudable .

Colleges like Laudable are escalators; even if you stand still, they will move you upward toward greater economic opportunity.

His ambition to reopen former trade routes across a peaceful Indian subcontinent is laudable.

Mr Ban's efforts to improve farming are laudable and ambitious. So were Mr Annan's efforts to boost peacekeeping.

Your humility is laudable, but at the very least, surely you'd put yourself above Vernon Kay?

That's laudable, not to mention rare in modern American business.

How will this trend affect the current laudable drive towards universal coverage?

Mr Dodd had originally planned to merge America's four overlapping bank regulators into one. He has given up that laudable fight.

this is one of the Administration's most laudable endeavors.

The aim of screening healthy people for cancer is to discover tumours when they are small and treatable. It sounds laudable and often it is.

These are laudable goals, and suggest that China's leadership is not beholden to a single-minded pursuit of quantitative growth targets.

In 2007 the government announced laudable plans to align the systems better (though its own subsequent tinkering undermined them).

As for the way Laudable spends its money, I can assure you that your professors aren't overpaid.

But his record on whistle-blower protection, another key area of concern, has been less laudable.

Mr Obama's aspirations may be laudable, but he has several tough years ahead.

Laudable's surroundings, by the way, will remind you of where you came from.

Her concern for accurate recording is laudable .

But most schools are like Laudable: we need your tuition dollars.

In all these Puranas the goddess Lakshmi is given a laudable place without any sectarian dispute.

That's a "laudable goal, " says Gyourko, but it hasn't worked well, pointing to the current crisis.

They have some environmental stances that are laudable which may help make you feel better about buying them.

Laudable could save some money by paying me less.

The team spirit of the Japeanese is laudable really.

This is laudable, but will probably not solve the problem, especially if the crisis spreads.

Analysts said that, while the programme was laudable, the key was implementation.

The professors here are Laudable's most important asset, and they, not I, are the ones who run the show (just ask Larry Summers).

That is a laudable departure from the network's typical habit of making its default settings as open as possible.

So what IKEA does is laudable, and we wish IKEA's business will prosper.

The anti-spam industry has done laudable work in saving e-mail.

This is a long way off, but it is a laudable dream.

A laudable goal for any project is a code base that is easy to refactor.

It is this, sometimes blurred, cleavage that makes Mr Obama's laudable multilateralism so hard to execute in the region.

Yet he also acknowledges a set of laudable, impassioned public ambitions: to help other struggling veterans;

To please is a laudable and elegant ambition, and is properly rewarded with honest praise. (No. 126)

What is there so very laudable in a precipitance

them unavoidable and laudable. Consider, for example, that income varies with education. According to census data,