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"laudible" [sic] exercise of building "a bridge across the social and intellectual divide that exists between most of US academia and the so-called heartlands."

homunculus 2009

Whilst Dr. Griffin's objective of NASA 're-learning' the trade was laudible, ultimately the timing for such an endeavour was wrong.

Doubts About Ares 1 Continue to Mount - NASA Watch 2009

While it was laudible for my grandfather's generation (he's 80-ish) and fairly normal for my father's (mid-50s), it's mocked by mine (I'm 30-ish) for good reason.

Innovation, Business Behavior, and Education, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Calls for greater respect for theoffice of the President are laudible and late.

Wilson says no more apologies for outburst against president 2009

The point which came blasting through the stunning technology was laudible, were it not for the predictable anti-civilization.

MTV Movies Blog Readers Respond To ‘Avatar’ » MTV Movies Blog 2009

I applaud you and other bloggers for asking for civility, but you're spitting into a tornado, and so long as you realize that, your plea is laudible.

The Civility Plea, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

People risk death to go pot-holing, climb mountains, yet these are laudible persuits?

GRANDFATHER’S SMOKE • by Lee Ann Sontheimer Murphy 2008

London previously had said that no matter what, his team always had demonstrated laudible energy and effort while trying to overcome its weaknesses.

Maryland 42, Virginia 23: Three up, three down Steve Yanda 2010

Your devotion to your candidate is laudible but the hard fact is that if she gets the nomination without a majority of the pledged delegates and a majority of the popular votes, she will lose the general election and she may well deal the party a blow it will take a decade or more to heal.

Hillary Would Have Benefitted From Winner-Take-All Primaries 2009

In particular, our completely laudible policy of justifying inclusion of articles by requiring citation of multiple stable reliable sources and a showing of some degree of prominence can be taken too far, and has decimated our coverage in areas like webcomics.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Wikipedia: Some Responses to Comments: 2009