(a.) Worthy of praise or applause; commendable; as, praiseworthy action; he was praiseworthy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Their high-profile campaigns – to have women on banknotes , challenge online misogyny and banish Page 3 , for example – though necessary and praiseworthy, do not reflect the most pressing needs of the majority of women, black and minority-ethnic women included.
(2) Alternative approaches suggest that praiseworthy efforts to raise immunisation rates in unpromising areas are unrewarded by simple target based assessments.
(3) Is there really such a clear line between his activities that are indisputably praiseworthy – the Prince's Trust, for instance, which provides training for those who might otherwise not find employment – and speaking out about planning and complementary medicine?
(4) As such, it has been variously interpreted as a praiseworthy ideal or an imperative upon society.
(5) The rightwing media are scared of this approach because it breaks out of the politics of cowardice and fear that it would like to keep us all locked into; a politics of cowardice to which many of the leading politicians in the UK are subservient when it comes to migration and Europe (with some notable and praiseworthy exceptions such as Ken Clarke ).
(6) We’ll just have to fuck on the stage While this sort of resistance discourse is praiseworthy, it’s a sorry state of affairs to be in in the first place.
(7) Highs and lows Puzzles are about the only aspect even vaguely praiseworthy – clever design and logical solutions create plenty of satisfying "Aha!"
(8) At any age children are indeed important members of families, but above all they qualify as members of society by providing a glimpse of what could be accomplished by nurturing the early and spontaneous development of their praiseworthy behavior.
(9) Anne Summers Honorary research fellow in history, Birkbeck, University of London • Your article says "nurses will have to spend up to a year helping patients to eat, wash and get dressed"; readers might think that this is something new and praiseworthy.
(10) She’s polite and praiseworthy about Rudd’s management of the global financial crisis, his desire to ensure Australia won a seat on the UN security council, and his advocacy through the G20.
Remarkable
Definition:
(a.) Worthy of being remarked or noticed; noticeable; conspicuous; hence, uncommon; extraordinary.
Example Sentences:
(1) The constitution of chromosomes in the two plasmacytomas remained remarkably stable in their homogeneous modal population.
(2) Well tolerated from the clinical and laboratory points of view, it proved remarkably effective.
(3) A remarkable deterioration of prognosis with increasing age rises the question whether treatment with cytotoxic drugs should be tried in patients more than 60 years old.
(4) Before issuing the ruling, the judge Shaban El-Shamy read a lengthy series of remarks detailing what he described as a litany of ills committed by the Muslim Brotherhood, including “spreading chaos and seeking to bring down the Egyptian state”.
(5) Research efforts in the Swedish schools are of high quality and are remarkably prolific.
(6) Recent research conducted by independent investigators concerning the relationship between crime and narcotic (primarily heroin) addiction has revealed a remarkable degree of consistency of findings across studies.
(7) Tiropramide remarkably increased cAMP level but it had no effect on cGMP level in the bladder at the lower concentrations.
(8) A remarkably close relationship was found between both H. pylori urease subunits and jack bean (Canavalia ensiformis) urease, the subunit of which is a single 840 amino acid polypeptide.
(9) Specific antibody patterns in vaccinees were highly variable and in a small number of subjects a remarkable antibody titre decrease was noticed.
(10) Gove, who touched on no fewer than 11 policy areas, made his remarks in the annual Keith Joseph memorial lecture organised by the Centre for Policy Studies, the Thatcherite thinktank that was the intellectual powerhouse behind her government.
(11) Four of the tumours, 2 adenomas and 2 intramucosal carcinomas, having a remarkable macroscopic appearance like a large mucosal fold are especially mentioned.
(12) During photoirradiation, both in vivo and in vitro, the serum polar (ZE)-bilirubin IX alpha concentration increased remarkably, but unbound-bilirubin values were not affected at all.
(13) Furthermore, the AMDP-3 scale and its manual constitute a remarkable teaching instrument for psychopathology, not always enough appreciated.
(14) The iPTH values found in the hemofiltrate were remarkably high, a finding that could be explained by non-specific effects, by the occurrence of hormone fragments or by an increased secretion rate.
(15) Both Apo AI (48%) and Apo AII (5.5%) were greatly diminished and Apo E was present in remarkably high amounts (39%) with two additional isoforms (Apo E'1 and Apo E'2).
(16) There was a remarkable tendency to newborns weighting more than 2000 g and a duration of pregnancy longer than 35 weeks.
(17) Results of the present study show that epithelial cells of ciliated columnar type covering vocal cords change remarkably to nonciliated squamous cells between prenatal and postnatal stages.
(18) Cyclosporine has a remarkable hepatotropic effect that may be helpful in the context of liver transplantation.
(19) This remarkably reliable examination showed a predominance of anterior and anterolateral aneurisms (87% of cases), and enables definition of the critical cardiac surface area (about 25%) above which the aneurysm is operable.
(20) The influential Belgian scientist Quetelet demonstrated a remarkable scotoma towards the phenomenon.