A child must learn early to believe that she is somebody worthwhile, and that she can do many praiseworthy things.    From LearnThat.org.  [Benjamin Mays (1895-1984)]

What makes this especially praiseworthy is that such an increase, like all taxes on goods and services, hits especially hard on the poor.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Bland and Deadly Courtesy] Reference

What's especially praiseworthy is their ensemble acting, the ebbs and flows of who's in and out being handled with confidence and control.    From Wordnik.com.  [GreenCine Daily: This Is England. In England.] Reference

They may wish to take the needs of her or his subjects into account (III. 15) but this is only "praiseworthy" and not imperative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hugo Grotius] Reference

You can also the BBC Newsnight piece on Abu Izzadeen here where he calls the 7/7 bombers as "praiseworthy" and his friend tries to put it all into context.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference

Nothing is praiseworthy which is not the result of effort.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nature of Goodness] Reference

The SEC has been doing it's usual "praiseworthy" job of oversight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dvorak Uncensored] Reference

Disgusting, yet that's what passes for "praiseworthy" these days coming from the "Tour de Hate '08" that is the McCain campaign!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Raising Kaine - Front Page] Reference

A SOUTH Korean official got it all wrong when he called Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's decision to fly economy class "praiseworthy" and "pragmatic".    From Wordnik.com.  [SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator] Reference

But in the service we render to another for his profit, that is the more praiseworthy which is rendered to the most needy, because it is of greater profit to him.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Prayer and The Contemplative Life] Reference

"praiseworthy," but "the majority are unrelated to the financial crisis and add billions in wasteful pork projects and payoffs to special interests.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Heath Haussamen on New Mexico Politics] Reference

(10) Seeking knowledge, that is, the praiseworthy way. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV] Reference

Everything was deemed praiseworthy, and highly approved.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference

Now I am not of those who think it praiseworthy to be always at home.    From Wordnik.com.  [Girls and Women] Reference

They do a thing which they feel to be praiseworthy, but it is not noticed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference

There are two reasons for this -- one praiseworthy and the other terrifying.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rape In The Ranks] Reference

Mr. Horace E. Scudder has executed a difficult task in a praiseworthy manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Girls and Women] Reference

That's praiseworthy, perhaps -- but it also went against widespread public sentiment.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Last Chance For Europe] Reference

He has overcome many of these difficulties in a manner, that is very praiseworthy and commendable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy] Reference

But her efforts, if praiseworthy, were hardly successful, especially her attempts to teach her to sew.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicken Little Jane] Reference

In nearly all young men there is more or less of noble ambition, of praiseworthy aim for an active and useful life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference

America's stance on global peace is praiseworthy, but what about the integrity and sovereignty of independent nations?.    From Wordnik.com.  [MAIL CALL] Reference

The career of this woman shows that her motive in adopting and following the career of a soldier was a praiseworthy one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference

With an admiration of the fine arts truly praiseworthy, he had fondly decorated the walls thereof with sundry pictures from.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference

M.. Frank Keenan, with whose praiseworthy effort to emulate the tactics of M. Antoine in Paris my readers are familiar, gave up the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference

It clearly filled a place that had been wanting; and moreover, the objects it had in view were identified with all that was praiseworthy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference

Neither Sam nor Penrod showed any interest in what the other had written, but both felt that something praiseworthy had been accomplished.    From Wordnik.com.  [Short Stories of Various Types] Reference

Tahitian hospitality is boundless, and the more praiseworthy that the island, although so fertile, produces but a scanty amount of edibles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference

A long friendship, founded on mutual services, gave him certain rights, and as his motive appeared praiseworthy I allowed him to have his way.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

After decades of praiseworthy service, the 230,000-member National Police Agency is under fire for corruption, inefficiency and downright incompetence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Battling A New Breed Of Criminal] Reference

Among freeters, telling Japan Inc. to (as country singer Johnny Paycheck once crooned) "take this job and shove it" is deemed praiseworthy, even heroic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Japan's Young Slackers] Reference

It is the mark of a noble nature to be quick to recognize that which is praiseworthy in others, and ready on the moment to award to it its fitting meed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference

But there are answers, and they go well beyond the current (and praiseworthy) talk about renewing family values and restoring community leadership in the inner city.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Price Of Neglect] Reference

This was hardly true a decade ago when Vice President Quayle was ridiculed for doubting (in his "Murphy Brown" speech) that single-parenthood was culturally praiseworthy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Limits Of Materialism] Reference

Moreover, it is universally conceded that French writers and artists have this particular and praiseworthy quality: they are most accessible to people of other countries.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference