(v. i.) Worthy of being lauded; praiseworthy; commendable; as, laudable motives; laudable actions; laudable ambition.
(v. i.) Healthy; salubrious; normal; having a disposition to promote healing; not noxious; as, laudable juices of the body; laudable pus.
Example Sentences:
(1) Why is it so surprising to people that a boy like Chol, just out of conflict, has thought through the needs of his country in such a detailed way?” While Beah’s zeal is laudable, the situation in South Sudan is dire .
(2) But, considering the high stakes involved in the gamble to permit suboptimal glucose regulation, it seems no longer rational to regard hyperglycemia as any more inevitable in the diabetic, than was "laudable pus" in the post-operative patient of yesteryear.
(3) The BBC Trust said director general Tony Hall had shown “laudable public ambition and commitment to change” but said it had “yet to feed through into change on air and in audience perceptions”.
(4) Laudable but not original, and a direct copy of an article published 12 years ago on Health Care in a Land Called PeoplePower (Health Expectations 2001; 4: 144-50).
(5) Honesty should extend to new commitments like seven-day services, a laudable aspiration with a hefty price tag.
(6) There’s a generosity of spirit there, which I think is laudable, and the British film industry ought to be very grateful.” Scott also has had to grapple recently with the shock of sudden personal tragedy.
(7) But even their contribution of 2,000 soldiers, while laudable, falls short of achieving anything other than the absolute basics: protecting French interests and citizens, and guarding key points like the airport and parliament.
(8) While the aim may be laudable, the centralised, top-down, regulation-driven approach seems odd given the potential for such a scheme to become costly and complicated; it is also ironic given the title of the bill.
(9) While the trend toward more conservative transfusion practices is laudable, blood transfusions should not be withheld because of fear of transfusion-transmitted disease.
(10) What started as a laudable if ambitious simplification of the welfare system has since been undermined by a toxic mix of hyperbole about what it will achieve, predictable IT bungling and, crucially, a series of stealth cuts that are changing the policy's character in advance of it coming to fruition.
(11) In one sense, it's laudable that he won't submit to the strictures of manufactured outrage, but his stance against professional offence-takers seems increasingly marked by coarse sensationalism.
(12) "We have come to the reluctant conclusion that the offender management model, however laudable its aspirations, is not working in prisons," say the chief inspector of prisons, Nick Hardwick, and the chief inspector of probation, Liz Calderbank.
(13) A laudable trend of preserving the knee was noted but poor stump conditions were the most important factors influencing the length of hospital stay (average 51 days).
(14) Interestingly, the Honolulu Heart Program, with its laudable efforts to collect both autopsy and arteriographic quantitations of atherosclerosis, provides perhaps the best illustration in the current literature of the power of using multiple endpoints for coronary artery disease to more completely elucidate the role of risk factors in the natural history of that disease.
(15) Medical empowerment of the elderly, a laudable social goal, can be as contradictory as informed consent itself and many elderly patients may opt out of their own decision making.
(16) For all the laudable initiatives, the more you complicate it, the more you benefit those who have got advice.
(17) The goal towards greater effectiveness and efficiency of the legal aid system is laudable, but a legal system that does not help those in need to get access to justice is a system which will, ultimately, be less efficient and cost more.
(18) Efforts to reorganize the survey process to make it more outcome-oriented are being initiated and, while this is laudable, there is no assurance that the process will be effective.
(19) Foster and adoption placements must be right first time Read more Fostering and adoption agency Tact, of which I am chief executive, recognises that these proposals are well-intentioned and come from a laudable place.
(20) If – a big if – the laudable new ICT curriculum (due to start this September) works, in roughly seven years' time we'll be in great shape, as a new generation of properly tech-ready kids graduate into the industry.
Plausible
Definition:
(a.) Worthy of being applauded; praiseworthy; commendable; ready.
(a.) Obtaining approbation; specifically pleasing; apparently right; specious; as, a plausible pretext; plausible manners; a plausible delusion.
(a.) Using specious arguments or discourse; as, a plausible speaker.
Example Sentences:
(1) Doctors may plausibly make special claims qua doctors when they are treating disease.
(2) The ordered aspect of the genetic code table makes this result a plausible starting point for studies of the origin and evolution of the genetic code: these could include, besides a more refined optimization principle at the logical level, some effects more directly related to the physico-chemical context, and the construction of realistic models incorporating both aspects.
(3) It seeks to acquaint them with 'ethical' arguments against their work which, because they are simple and plausible, persuade many people.
(4) This algorithm is not only efficient for the recognition of order and disorder in "machine vision", but also plausible in biological visual perception.
(5) For the lysozyme-catalyzed hydrolysis of cell-wall proteoglycan three plausible mechanisms of substrate inhibition can be postulated.
(6) The pathogenesis of the prolific mite population is unclear, but either a specific immunologic deficit or the inability to effectively eliminate the mites by scratching is a plausible possibility.
(7) Now 31, England captain and a respected veteran of the game, she's seen plausible, semi-professional wages become a part of women's football – finally – and can currently expect to earn about £25,000 a season.
(8) A debate in 1998 in International Security magazine saw the Chicago academic, Robert Pape, barely challenged in his view that only around five of the 115 cases of sanctions imposed since the war could claim any plausible efficacy.
(9) The only plausible response is an appeal regarding the likely side effects and exploitation of the system, but that is something that could be tested with controlled pilot studies, and safeguards could be put in place.
(10) On the basis of a comprehensive review of the literature, it is shown that among all the locally employed NSAIDs, kinetically reliable and plausible evidence of therapeutic effectiveness is, at present, available only for indomethacin, diclofenac, salicylic acid salts and ibuprofen.
(11) The comparative risks of these exposures are computed and the plausibility of the relative risks is examined by comparing the equivalent doses with actual measurements of exposure taken in the homes of smokers.
(12) In other cases no localization occurred, and we suggest plausible reasons for this failure and modifications of imaging technique to improve the performance.
(13) Based on the results obtained with the in vitro assay system and from a consideration of data currently in the literature, plausible schemes for ferritin and bacterioferritin iron uptake and release are described.
(14) The findings also cast doubt on the idea that sex-related differences in spatial ability could be caused by sex differences in timing of puberty or lateralization, although other biological mechanisms remain plausible.
(15) The most plausible explanation for the difference in the endocrine response of islet cells in the two types of widely used in vitro systems is that the alpha and beta cells have lost inhibitory receptors in the plasma membrane as a result of the collagenase isolation technic.
(16) The objective is to comment on some plausible mutual implications of generally attested pathologies and normal models of lexical retrieval for production, particularly with respect to the roles of semantic and syntactic categories.
(17) However, the cost-benefit ratio under a range of plausible assumptions remains extremely high--in the region of six to one to 30 to one, or even higher.
(18) They give no biologically plausible explanation for a cause and effect.
(19) Semantically congruent situations consisted of adjective-noun pairs that were not highly predictable but were nonetheless plausible (e.g., GOOD-AUNT).
(20) No one else need bother to paint them as a ramshackle and rancorous rabble marooned in the past and without a plausible account of the future.