(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.
Salubrious
Definition:
(a.) Favorable to health; healthful; promoting health; as, salubrious air, water, or climate.
Example Sentences:
(1) A naturalised British subject, he spent most of his working life in London and was frequently seen at the most salubrious bars and restaurants, often in the company of beautiful young women such as Kate Moss, who he once painted.
(2) Never salubrious – Pulp's Jarvis Cocker even wrote a song about his time there in which he simply repeats the lines "Oooh – it's a mess alright – it's Mile End" over and over again.
(3) Canteen food is of central importance for two reasons: first of all, it is possible to supply salubrious food that is well-balanced according to modern guidelines worked out by nutritionists; secondly, modern canteen catering can exercise an influence on the general attitude to food.
(4) I don’t know how many hotels Hunt has stayed in, but my guess is that most will have been a little more salubrious than the average care home.
(5) Second, despite numerous claims, in the context of behavioral or psychosomatic medicine, that a joyful, optimistic, or humorous attitude can render a salubrious effect, almost to the extent of preventing illness and curing physical disease, the jury is still out and issuing dire warnings regarding too ready acceptance of this largely anecdotal evidence.
(6) A healthy style of living involves salubrious behaviour and facilitates the health promoting shaping of living conditions.
(7) The Gautrain will also connect with Park Station in Johannesburg's less salubrious downtown.
(8) This salubrious state is attributed to the preservation of a small segment of stomach which enabled the intrinsic factor in the gastric mucosa to participate in and contribute to the normal hemopoietic physiological process.
(9) Poynter, a Chelsea FC season ticket holder, is a former director of the salubrious Royal Automobile Club, the gentleman’s club on London’s Pall Mall.
(10) Les Misérables , Hugo's tale of working-class suffering and strife played out in the sewers and backstreets of Paris's least salubrious districts, was published in 1862.
(11) Problems are shortness of information and instruction of the patient, use of special vocabulary, inadequate reaction to patient's anxiety and insufficient mediation of salubrious references by the doctor.
(12) When distressed couples are relatively stable and interested in effecting a harmonious modus vivendi, didactic training will usually achieve salubrious outcomes.
(13) A "small mortgage" stretched to a one bedroom in the least salubrious area of London's zone two, which we were assured by the estate agent was "up and coming".
(14) The bubble pushed house prices up into less salubrious areas and into the commuter belt.
(15) The salubrious effect of regular physical activity on reducing the risk of coronary heart disease appears to exist even at low levels of physical activity.
(16) These data support the hypothesis that naloxone exerts its salubrious effects in canine hemorrhagic shock by acting at cardiac opiate receptors.
(17) Berman had long since left the Bronx for the more salubrious life of the upper west side, but he found a renewed life in the streets there and he did not hesitate to celebrate it.
(18) Mortality occurs at older ages in our growing and salubrious population.
(19) I said farewell to Rogério at the summit of Rocinha, and in less than five minutes I was walking back down through Alto Gávea, Rio's most salubrious suburb.
(20) The area is not a salubrious one: his neighbours are a methadone clinic, a halfway house and the Rescue Mission, the city's main homeless shelter.