It's commendable, even though it didn't lead to further action.
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After all, Malek did a commendable job at capturing Mercury.
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I have yet to experience commendable touch controls on headphones.
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The performances were commendable, though the plot was mildly predictable.
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That was so commendable and respectable because he had freedom.
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"I think it's commendable," Ms. Thurman said at the time.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell did something commendable on Sunday.
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Her early work with the Children's Defense Fund is commendable.
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Now, that would make this a truly commendable move for Nike.
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They have dispatched vaccine to the affected areas with commendable speed.
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"It is commendable effort that Gordhan is putting together," Hulea added.
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Improvements in healthcare and education under the Cuban revolution were commendable.
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Flexibility is normally a commendable trait, the mark of the nonzealot.
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As a potential leader, Singh's reaction is commendable and makes sense.
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Recent funding efforts, while commendable, are proverbial drops in the bucket.
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Morris said the policy proposals are "commendable" but not comprehensive enough.
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Only then can this legislation live up to its commendable intentions.
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I actually didn't know that about you and that is commendable.
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The idea of decarbonizing the economy is ambitious, commendable and urgent.
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Tribe declares this strategy is not just constitutional but also commendable.
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That is, as long as you patronize two commendable charitable enterprises.
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It is a commendable approach to solar power in the Sunshine State.
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It has done a commendable job in the face of extraordinary challenges.
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More often, as in Russia, these choices look understandable — perhaps even commendable.
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Such swift and decisive action is, surely, commendable, as Sterling understandably thought.
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Her success is commendable but it comes by virtue of her privilege.
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She does commendable work both satirizing, and also fulfilling, a sexist conception.
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That much was fine, even commendable, but the protest didn't stop there.
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It's a commendable response, albeit of the brute-force, ex post facto variety.
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The attention to this issue, largely driven by Ivanka Trump's influence, is commendable.
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There's also an argument to be made that his inaction is not commendable.
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But while a manual process is commendable, it forces Ploeger to be scrappy.
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They continue to lead the pack from the front which is highly commendable.
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Aung San Su Kyi had been taking commendable steps to address this conflict.
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There is, I suppose, something commendable about this, but it's the bare minimum.
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Along the way, Gorsuch showed a commendable respect for the tribes' historical experiences.
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Emanuel's ambition is commendable, but children of poverty face treacherous obstacles to success.
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However, there is one aspect here that is commendable and worthy of praise.
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You are being dreamy and idealistic; that's commendable, but totally unpractical and unrealistic.
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So Snapchat's push to keep innovating (even if it gets copied) is commendable.
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Inclusivity is commendable, but the fiscal incentive for more shades is not insignificant.
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To his credit, Dimchev discloses the pay disparity and speaks with commendable candor.
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" But a short time later, in an unusual and commendable move for someone associated with Trump, Sanders ended up not only deleting her tweet, but apologizing to Biden, writing, "I actually didn't know that about you and that is commendable.
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"He put his career on the line for that and that's commendable to me."
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His initiative will, in all likelihood, successfully shelter some families — and that's genuinely commendable.
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Yet while Mr Ouattara's economic record is commendable, his political one is less so.
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Oh, and to appreciate the truly commendable effort others put into their costumes, too.
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It was commendable that you described his language as "racist" rather than "racially charged".
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The fact that he's only 20 and making a huge impact is truly commendable.
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For a company that looks to be struggling to survive, this is pretty commendable.
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He even made a nice thing happen for his team, which is very commendable.
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The team in Washington produced commendable, competitive work on an exceptionally difficult reporting target.
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CS: Your sincere effort to do right by your free-spirited daughter is commendable.
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To be fair, the First Step Act, Trump's landmark criminal justice law, is commendable.
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With commendable ambition, Mathews attempts to combine a serious story with a great lark.
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" Ms. Sanders replied: "I actually didn't know that about you and that is commendable.
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DACA isn't a matter of having a "great heart" (though the sentiment is commendable).
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It calls for "net-zero greenhouse gas emissions" by 2030, which is totally commendable.
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Larry Fink, the boss of BlackRock (which runs mostly passive funds), is a commendable exception.
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There's something commendable about that: it incorporates developer and user feedback, at the very least.
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"Where we are today is absolutely commendable as opposed to three years ago," she said.
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To that effect, abstaining from participating in a ceremony for reasons of principle is commendable.
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HENRIK CARLBORGSolna, Sweden Prince Muhammad's reform plan for Saudi Arabia is commendable and long overdue.
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The president's announcement is particularly commendable since it takes a broad approach to global trade.
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The administration's commendable rhetoric in its major Iran policy announcements hints at the underlying problem.
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Some people have even gotten a head start on their fanfic, which is honestly commendable.
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Humanitarianism is commendable, but not when you're demanding that others share the burdens and expense.
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He has wanted to be the ally of oppressed Muslims, as is commendable and right.
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It helps find homes for dogs that were used in scientific studies, which is commendable.
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Of course, even these measures, commendable though they may be, are a very heavy lift.
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The informal rule demanding consultation by the White House of home state senators is commendable.
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What makes it commendable is when it's done in a careful, thoughtful, impact-driven manner.
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On February 22nd, with commendable speed, the company announced a wide-ranging review of its business.
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"Naomi's long history of commitment to humanitarianism is both remarkably commendable and genuine," Jacobs tells WWD.
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All of Taylor and Cartwright's friends agree the former's growth over about eight months is commendable.
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"All of these officers' actions are more than commendable and should be considered heroic," Blankenbaker said.
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In a way it's commendable Green is still creating—if nothing else, those costumes are creative!
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Evans -- who's district includes Meek's southwest Philly neighborhood -- says the bill is commendable for several reasons.
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The committee's most important recommendation, an executive branch "coordination mechanism" to deal with crises, is commendable.
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He has stuck fast against the Bush-Obama war on terror, among other commendable peacenik positions.
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Each promotes an ideal of globalism in one form or another that may be entirely commendable.
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Collins' efforts to identify a bi-partisan middle ground are commendable, but they face extraordinary odds.
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It was commendable, but what followed was a dark and venomous campaign to drag her down.
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"To keep a reporter's prejudices out of a story is commendable," Irving Kristol wrote in 1967.
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Buttermilk fried chicken is commendable, too, although it should be eaten immediately, before its armor wilts.
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The pizza takes just 10 minutes to heat in a 400-degree oven for commendable results.
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The initiative is a commendable one, but its impact since its inception is open to question.
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And, he said, the promotion of seconds-in-command who have knowledge and experience is commendable.
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The sentencing judge found that Mr. Saucier's offense stood in contrast to his commendable military service.
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Compared with prevailing rhetoric, Delaney's cautious optimism is as commendable as the thoroughness of his plan.
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In medicine, lingering health consequences from experiments, known as legacy effects, are common and often commendable.
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However, that's not to say that this is the first commendable thing she's done as of late.
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For brunch on Saturdays and Sundays, there is a commendable egg-and-sausage sandwich called the Bouncer.
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The Chinese effort is commendable, and the data gleaned from this project will be of significant value.
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The sentencing judge found that Mr. Saucier&aposs offense stands in contrast to his commendable military service.
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It's commendable that Digit is taking on the task of addressing the national credit card debt problem.
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"Bizzack's contrition and prompt acceptance of responsibility are significant and commendable," prosecutors wrote in a sentencing memorandum.
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This is refined, high-end construction of the highest order and Blue's progress between generations is commendable.
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"I think that's commendable, and I think that speaks to his true level of remorse," Bruno said.
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"He has done a commendable job and I'm going to support him," said Otho Lane of Dillon.
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And while we're still in the early stages of our relationship, this one shows some commendable promise.
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Earlier this year, Sony did a commendable job remastering the PlayStation Vita original for the PlayStation 4.
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The Senate Intelligence Committee has had a commendable and bipartisan approach to investigating what happened in 2016.
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On the other side, though more commendable, you have Medicare for All emerging as a litmus test.
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The switch, announced on Wednesday, is a case study in unintended consequences, commendable goals gone somewhat awry.
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""Your sugarwork is commendable, the filling is interesting, the puree is not as smooth as I'd hoped.
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The commitment of a number of tech companies to advance diversity numbers is both commendable and smart.
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It could be that people feel like it's more commendable to request public health services than cash.
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But giving away useful things you don't want or need is still an act of commendable charity.
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It is perfectly commendable to take pride in one's home; messiness, like sexuality, exists on a spectrum.
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Despite being a rewarding and commendable profession, the average social worker is not earning a huge payday.
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The final stat line doesn&apost show it, but the Lakers did a commendable job containing Antetokounmpo.
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But I think the MTA is doing an OK job, and their effort is commendable so far.
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But really what's commendable here is that ZTE is launching these devices with Android N. Good job, ZTE.
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The goals of the pilot are certainly commendable, and at first glance, the facial recognition system looks straightforward.
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But it's also meant to pay tribute to the "little people" doing commendable community work around the country.
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Nonetheless, he will leave Pittsburgh with a two-fight streak and a commendable overall record of 23-7.
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Despite the commendable goals of the AZA , most wildlife biologists consider such programs to be works in progress.
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There's no reason to assume Zuckerberg didn't mean well, and Facebook's efforts to help Puerto Rico are commendable.
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Donating money is commendable because it does good, and ideally it'd be commended only if it does good.
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For many leading politicians of right and left reacted with commendable calm to these latest, racially charged shootings.
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The Vista's audio, Bluetooth, and charging case are commendable upgradesThey sound good, and they have good noise isolation.
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This meatball recipe, adapted from the commendable new cookbook "Koreatown," is easy enough to consider for midweek dinner.
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Which is commendable for a group of musicians who don't look or sound like a conventional crossover act.
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Yet the diversity of individuals, commendable as it is, was not matched by an accompanying diversity of ideas.
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Much of his 12-year record as a three-term mayor of America's most populous city is commendable.
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Wordplay, the CROSSWORD COLUMN Sophia Maymudes turns up with family (father, David), and turns in a commendable construction.
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He didn't get a chance to elaborate further on his commendable record on climate change and gun safety.
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Mr. Zuckerberg's concern for the marginalised in society is commendable, as is his commitment to building strong communities.
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Captain Marvel, which was released on International Women's Day, made a commendable effort to bring women into the spotlight.
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"I am especially proud of our nearly 60,000 employees for the commendable job under operationally difficult circumstances," he said.
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Expounding on the possibilities of empathy may be commendable, but it can feel like a corny gimmick, even naivety.
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It's exciting and commendable that Keys remains dedicated to her stance then, now, and even at an awards show.
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As another Twitter user pointed out, Zoe's ability to assert herself at such a young age is truly commendable.
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Helping our first black president win a second term and saving young women's lives are efforts that are commendable.
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The other half of the glassIn some areas, however, relations between China and America have also made commendable progress.
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It turns out that alongside some commendable philanthropic projects, he's also been quietly working on a new startup: Nom.
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James Lankford (R-Okla.) represents a commendable and ambitious reform effort to increase government transparency and expand public engagement.
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The included cartridge, which is the thing that actually reads your records, is of commendable quality for the price.
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This commendable initiative seeks to regularly report on foreign direct investment around the world, gathering data from 87 countries.
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It was commendable that the whole performance was able to produce such a strong psychological effect on its visitors.
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Mr. Zuckerberg's concern about democracy is commendable, and some of the changes he announced could have a positive impact.
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While efforts to roll ATC systems into the 21st century are commendable, the problem lies in the bill's execution.
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What happened to Olson was surely regrettable, but the belated official acknowledgment of wrongdoing could be seen as commendable.
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But it's barely commendable—these are issues and features Uber should have been thinking about before it hit the market.
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There's really nothing surprising nor commendable about it, but I'm all about releasing these reports for the sake of transparency.
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The AEA study is commendable, but only a fifth of its 45,000 present and past members replied to its poll.
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It's commendable that Scandal managed to wrest so much tension out of an episode that felt like a foregone conclusion.
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Out on the street and down in the underground, the CB-1s did a commendable job of insulating external noise.
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That's how badly I died when the Patriots beat the Jags—I'm now prepared to consider the Patriots' cheating commendable.
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That Honor has done this with a phone targeting the upper mid-range of the market is very much commendable.
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Chance's values and charity work around Chicago are commendable but they don't exempt him from criticism as a public figure.
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Marvin Lewis has taken the Bengals to the playoffs five seasons in a row, which is commendable for any coach.
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He did not make his work look easy, because it was not easy, and that somehow made it more commendable.
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Given the staggering complexity of the problem and the tendency of politics to oversimplify, the breadth of positions was commendable.
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While his kindhearted nature is commendable, it is also dangerous to be too forgiving of authorities that obey discriminatory commands.
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"The department recognizes and appreciates Mr. Staley's commendable and constructive steps to accept responsibility for his actions," state officials wrote.
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This was commendable on Moon's part; he's the one who genuinely deserves the Nobel Peace Prize if this works out.
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In this case, it seems the Styles section has done a commendable job of addressing the needs of many ethnicities.
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If getting allies to take on more responsibility were President Trump's real goal, Canada's stance would be a commendable result.
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" Sanders quickly backtracked, deleting her previous tweets and responding, "I actually didn't know that about you and that is commendable.
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Max Ventilla, the founder of AltSchool, has commendable goals, but his vision misses the bigger picture of how schools work.
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While it's commendable that the Dunphys are so exhaustively chronicled, the reams of pages describing them fail to add complexity.
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Portal is clearly meant to be placed at a central point in a room and otherwise not touched, which is commendable.
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While Andersen understands this is a commendable effort, one goal of Plastic Oceans is to ensure these companies enforce recycling internally.
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It's a commendable move, and just one of many acts of kindness that tend to follow these increasingly, heartbreakingly frequent shootings.
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But just because it's sold out on the brand site, doesn't mean we can't snag some commendable replacements until it's restocked.
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Netflix took the big, difficult, commendable step of encrypting all of its video streams in 2016 to better protect user privacy.
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Whoever the true record-holder is, all these workers show commendable commitment and hard work, not to mention enviable job satisfaction.
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Mee Audio is a company that hasn't done premium audio before, which makes the quality of its first attempt highly commendable.
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To the Editor: Your focus on the disabled forced to live in nursing homes is commendable, but not the whole story.
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JB Hi-Fi's profit was "a commendable result...in a challenging consumer backdrop", Macquarie Group analysts wrote in a research note.
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Only Toyota and Nissan go further by making those features standard on more cars, but Volkswagen's effort is noticeable—and commendable.
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And it's true that some employers, including in the finance sector, make commendable efforts to hire, promote and retain more women.
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With more than 3,000 reviews posted on Amazon, the Eedor Thin Casual Boat Line Socks enjoy a commendable 4.5-star rating.
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"Although FirstNet has made commendable progress in the past year, questions linger about the future viability of the network," said Sen.
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Although it's commendable that he didn't drive a car, it's still illegal to steal things, even from Walmart, even in Louisiana.
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" Canaccord said in its downgrade that while Square has done a "commendable job" of creating "competitive" payment products, competition was "increasing.
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That makes the contribution of those who did the latter all the braver and more commendable — and all the more necessary.
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Yes, being aggressive in words and deeds toward them is commendable, but they do supply ammunition for their use against liberals.
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So it's commendable that someone has tried to make a film about hope, and not pie-in-the-sky hope, either.
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Whatever else one can say about him, the president appears to have a commendable caution about ordering the military into action.
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Team Flakes may be gone for good, but the Lincoln team did a commendable job of returning the Continental to market.
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That's commendable, of course, but Netflix still has 60+ million subscribers in the U.S., and 158+ million worldwide, for comparison's sake.
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OPEC Secretary General Mohammed Barkindo, speaking at the same panel, said what OPEC+ has done is "commendable" and helped save U.S. producers.
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The well-intentioned and commendable, pragmatic advice that men should do housework seems barely to bring the Catholic Church into the 1960s.
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Fact No. 1: Texas has regulated abortion clinics for years through strict licensing requirements and annual inspections, achieving a commendable safety record.
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While you might want to turn the volume down a bit, Tim triumph over the game's second boss, King Dodongo, is commendable.
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But the longer you stick with Swiss Army Man, the more its commendable audaciousness starts to succumb to the story's underlying triteness.
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The boldness is commendable, and it's probably necessary: Sherlock's fourth season won't air until 2017, a consequence of its stars' packed schedules.
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More importantly, despite predictions that Barr might delay the report's release, redact embarrassing material or make unexplained redactions, Barr's record is commendable.
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Despite Ms. Gavigan's commendable efforts at instilling Emily with warmth and a libido, the script largely, and indefensibly, deprives her of both.
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While the progressive victories for trans rights made by Obama's administration are highly commendable, the treatment of Manning stood in stark contrast.
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The willingness to take a hard look at this experience and ask whether the Fed hasn't gotten something wrong is certainly commendable.
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While rescuing the boys from the cave was clearly commendable, distributing bednets saves young children and adults at a dramatically reduced cost.
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" James added, "The time and the commitment that you guys are putting in, it's truly commendable and remarkable at the same time.
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If a few thousand Model 3 vehicles exit the Tesla factory in Fremont, CA this year, it will be a commendable achievement.
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"The Which Way Tree" is a commendable and very readable addition to the tale-spinning tradition and its beautiful use of language.
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That the Justice Department should seek divestitures would — absent the Trump effect — seem logical, commendable and a continuation of recent merger practice.
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Yes, it's commendable that Google ultimately committed to creating what may ultimately prove to be a valuable tool in combating the coronavirus.
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Mr. Schoen said that investigators had found his client's efforts to research the provenance of the piece commendable, not that he had.
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Cynthia Gardner, regional executive director of American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities (ALSAC), St. Jude's fundraising and awareness organization, called Diesel's compassion commendable.
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But while these protests are courageous and commendable, they do not represent any threat to an inevitable Putin victory in two weeks.
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It's a commendable goal for anyone who doesn't run and wants to get a little healthier: Run 365 miles in one year.
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The film also has a longer-than-usual coda featuring interviews with the real figures fictionalized in the movie, which is commendable.
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While a commendable, community-spirited deed, it's not exactly the sort of act you'd think would get thousands of likes and shares.
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He pledged to end the epidemic in the United States by 214, setting commendable, ambitious goals for domestic prevention and treatment efforts.
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I can say objectively that they appear to be healthy — the museum has done a commendable job of caring for the birds.
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It's commendable that tech companies chose to make information about government requests public, but transparency reports often feel too nebulous to be useful.
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By 2016, his wealth had increased to $75 billion, "despite his commendable attempts to give it away through his Foundation, " the report says.
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"The scale and contextual response of this clearly executed project is commendable," Douglas Hocking, the award's jury chair, said in an email statement.
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While public service of any type is commendable, all the ways of fulfilling that service definitely are not equal, in terms of risk.
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Andrew M. Cuomo's action holding institutions and companies that unlawfully boycott Israeli businesses accountable for their discriminatory conduct is commendable and morally compelling.
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While company loyalty is commendable, unless it's specified in the terms of your hiring agreement it doesn't mean a raise is in order.
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While such an action is commendable and should placate lawmakers and the public for now, it won't work as a long term solution.
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To those who would rather buy a Miata and pocket the extra $100,000, your frugality is commendable; the Mazda is a fun romp.
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Several Republicans defended Facebook against the harshest rhetoric from the Democrats, calling Libra an idea with "tremendous potential benefits" and a "commendable" mission.
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The brand has a commendable 4.7-star rating based on 160 reviews on REI's site, a place of esteem in its own right.
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But he has commendable restraint, and his latest film, "I Remember You," transcends genre pyrotechnics even as it incorporates elements of Nordic noir.
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Their plan, while commendable, is unlikely to lower premiums because it does not do enough to get more consumers back into the market.
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The dedication by everyone involved is commendable, but the story itself is so powerful it rivals some documentaries in how realistic it is.
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It called the vote in the House and Senate "commendable ... to reverse the FCC's off-course privacy rules" in its own Friday blog.
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Mr. Schoen said that investigators had found his client's efforts to research the provenance of the Italian piece commendable, not that he had.
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As gluten-free goes, her treats are commendable, but she advises warming up the babkas and breads to improve them before digging in.
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As commendable as this sounds, the subsidies are often given to wealthy companies to build in more affluent, economically vibrant parts of town.
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Yet while Gibney's refusal to simplify his subject, whom he clearly admires, is commendable, his attraction to Khodorkovsky's story in particular remains elusive.
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Tuesday's clemency grants — which included hundreds that shortened or ended outrageously long sentences for low-level drug offenders — are bold and commendable decisions.
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The Trump administration made commendable progress last September when it got the entire United Nations Security Council to back meaningful and severe sanctions.
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It's commendable when public figures risk losing the support of a base or a demographic to stand for morals, values, respect and freedom.
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While that's commendable, they of course receive no professional instruction or guidance about what life representing the United States abroad will be like.
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"They deserve appreciation, they have done a commendable job," S. L. Bunker, a former senior member of the CCI, told Reuters on Monday.
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That it had made it so far was commendable, but it still revealed just how little it had been in control all along.
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While their change of heart is commendable, the fact that it came about only because they were personally touched by the matter is telling.
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"If the attack was conducted by Israel, it would be a commendable and moral action by Israel against the slaughter in Syria," Yadlin said.
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For McConaughey and others, perhaps this boils down to judgement, or a commendable desire to experiment and take risks that doesn't always pay off.
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In foreign policy, EU countries have displayed commendable unity over sanctions on Russia, and have been vital in striking a nuclear deal with Iran.
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They also did a commendable job of reining in the candidates when they went over, and of calling them out when they avoided questions.
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But, in a commendable display of caution, Tesla (TSLA) decided that Navigate on Autopilot will, for now at least, be disabled when there's rain.
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Vaidyanathan, who converted from Hinduism to Catholicism while living in Dubai, said the Emirates' religious tolerance is commendable given the trends of the region.
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He's now a commendable 20-3 overall, while Buscape falls onto a two-fight skid and assumes an overall record of 19-5-1.
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"In his first quarter as CEO Hans Van Bylen seems to be doing a commendable job," said Mirco Badocco, an analyst with RBC Europe.
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I think it's really commendable to even doubt the process out loud, because I don't feel like people should be pressured to have children.
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While her charitable contributions are commendable, suggesting that Trump is donating all the proceeds from the book, as some media outlets have, is misleading.
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Of course not; he has done a thorough, commendable job of identifying and indicting Russian agents behind the effort to interfere with our election.
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Though not quite an olive branch, it is a commendable step forward, one that demonstrates an awareness of a community of scientifically involved citizens.
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Facebook is taking some commendable steps to ensure transparency for voters, including its actions in Germany and a manual-review process for political ads.
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Galli stresses that everything depends on "the talent of the players," that "there are no gurus here," but such modesty, while commendable, is misleading.
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Darcy and Ng seeing the potential here and getting in on the ground floor is commendable, even if the product still feels half-baked.
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The results, over the last few days, have been encouraging: a win against Switzerland followed by a commendable draw with a slightly weakened Iceland.
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Legal paper is almost always dyed a rich shade of yellow, part of a commendable, and successful, effort to make the cheap pulp beautiful.
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Made between 1988 and 2002, these ranged from the generally commendable ("Ash," with its marvelous Michael Torke score) to the ghastly ("The Infernal Machine").
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The typical red wines, like the commendable assortment of aglianicos and Taurasis we tasted, provide earthy, darkly brooding complements to this happy, familiar fare.
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Ethiopian Airlines said its pilot Yared Getachew, a dual Ethiopian-Kenyan national, had a "commendable record" and more than 8,000 hours of flying experience.
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You can trust that Amazon will provide you with reliable two-day delivery of affordable products without trusting that it has commendable labor practices.
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This unfortunately means that they are more likely to be staying late and working well into the night, thinking this is necessary or even commendable.
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The new FCC Chairman, Ajit Pai, has promised to roll back net neutrality—a decisive step that rolls back the commendable actions of his predecessor.
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The way it fits childhood queerness into a squeaky-clean parable about difference is a commendable thing, and rare in this kind of blockbuster filmmaking.
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It would have been reassuring and commendable for the organizations to take ownership over their role in the lack of inclusivity in the fashion industry.
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Despite its conventional, aesthetic hang, the effort by the Newark Museum and the curators in this reconsideration of its Native American art collection are commendable.
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That's essentially the experience that SoundCloud has always provided, and it's, perhaps, commendable that SoundCloud is staying true to that while launching a paid service.
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With encyclopedic rigor—and commendable patience—she attempted to introduce me to the discipline: its converging histories and sub-fandoms, its vicissitudes and interior controversies.
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It's commendable, and puts the game squarely on my radar again, as we wait for the winter-themed expansion, The Frozen Wilds, coming November 7.
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At a glance, one of the most obvious choices in this regard would be Cheick Kongo, who owns a commendable 6-2 record in Bellator.
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"It's commendable that they have actually tried to make a petroleum sector policy," said Aaron Sayne, senior governance officer with the Natural Resource Governance Institute.
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Out of a commendable distaste for the opacities of artspeak, Perl insists on a simplicity of language that can sometimes spill over into the fatuous.
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Some Democrats said that while Pelosi's handling of the standoff is commendable, the nature of the debate has given her an easy hand to play.
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That commitment to the film format is commendable and also a revenue generator for the company, because the camera is useless without more (expensive) film.
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This triple-ply cladding provides stability, even distribution of heat in the base and along the sides from bottom to rim, and overall commendable performance.
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That's commendable, but they should consider how their comments will be taken by the vast majority of Americans, particularly in a highly politically polarized time.
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You talk about "passing" as white and about your responsibility to visible minorities (a commendable sentiment), and you evoke a sense of free-floating bias.
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While the City has advanced commendable initiatives to study and combat segregation, it needs the support of the federal government to achieve its ultimate goal.
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Shepard's hard work is commendable, but two of the most haunting stories in the collection succeed by standing in relief to his heavily researched inventions.
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Under other circumstances that might be commendable, but here it undercuts Ms. Breslin, who is already having enough trouble making Baby something other than bland.
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Bills such as the Sessions-Cassidy Bill, the Price Bill, and the Ryan Bill each have commendable qualities that would mark an improvement over ObamaCare.
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That Davies does so as well as he does — and that Years and Years feels like an eerie prediction of what's to come — is commendable.
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So it was perhaps commendable on Thursday that Christie refused to take Fox News moderator Megyn Kelly's bait and advocate for the indiscriminate profiling of Muslims.
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U.S. investigators cited a defective titanium alloy part and weak inspection procedures, although they also praised the "highly commendable" performance of the crew of flight 232.
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That is commendable progress, but it is shocking that one in three Oxford colleges failed to admit a single black British A-level student in 2015.
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As one of the first community tourism businesses in the country it's commendable, but a two-night, three-day package there costs $800 for two people.
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The movie displays commendable frankness in taking on at least one topic that few pictures, indie or not, would touch: sexual attraction between mentally disabled adults.
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Yes, he's a patriot, and yes, I believe that what he did in 2013 to reveal dangerous elements of our surveillance state was important and commendable.
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Rebooting X-Men was a risky idea (before reboots became tres chic), but rebooting it with James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender was nothing short of commendable.
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"I think it's really commendable to even doubt the process out loud, because I don't feel like people should be pressured to have children," she said.
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Ethiopian Airlines said its pilot Yared Getachew, who was a dual Ethiopian-Kenyan national, had a "commendable record" and more than 8,000 hours of flying experience.
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The pilot Yared Getachew, who was a joint Ethiopian-Kenyan national, had a "commendable record" and more than 8,000 hours of flying experience, the airline said.
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Indrawati, who met Finance Minister Kemi Adeosun on Tuesday, said she and Buhari discussed the government's "commendable goals to improve tax collection and crackdown on corruption".
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The pilot Yared Getachew, who was a joint Ethiopian-Kenyan national, had a "commendable record" and more than 8,000 hours of flying experience, Ethiopian Airlines said.
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A commendable, long-term devolution of power from the centre to individual states means that these now spend some 1.7 times what the national government does.
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"And committee chairman Mike Crapo of Idaho offered conditional praise for the plan's vision: "Despite the uncertainties, Facebook's stated goals for the payments systems are commendable.
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Improving a small percentage of investigative staff, while commendable, won't change the bias inherent in having the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision investigate itself. Gov.
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I've said many times -- and still believe -- that Tillerson and others on the national security team have done a commendable job handling the peril in Pyongyang.
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She called the Nobel committee's decision to award the peace prize to Mr. Santos — despite his failure to get a peace deal approved — consistent and commendable.
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It is always commendable when a major landowner decides to conserve a large tract of land they own in a remote, picturesque part of the country.
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Jordan should be helped to uphold its own commendable record of saving Syrian lives, either by hosting the refugees or by moving them to safety elsewhere.
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The neighborhood, with Bobby Flay's commendable fast-food Burger Palace and the steakhouse chain Capital Grille just steps away, is not bad, as suburban malls go.
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More demanding, less inclusive, but more meaningful, a stricter pledge could have been a stronger signal that a signatory was doing something genuinely commendable and important.
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But these efforts, commendable as they are, may not have had a huge effect on Barilla's bottom line — and it's possible Guido's homophobic comments didn't either.
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On balance, the overall ergonomics and interface of all the systems that Infiniti has located on the center console and between the front seats were commendable.
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" If the attack was conducted by Israel, Mr. Yadlin wrote, it would be both "a commendable and moral action by Israel against the slaughter in Syria.
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Although your sense of indignation is commendable, it's not your duty to enforce these rules, merely to report violations to the appropriate authorities, and you have.
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But Gus Van Sant's drama about Milk's career isn't commendable just as a superbly crafted biopic, or as a vehicle for a remarkable Sean Penn performance.
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"The notion that our reporter's commendable and insightful work led to a criminal prosecution that has resulted in this wrongful conviction is intolerable," Mr. Lewis said.
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Alex Lehmann, who directed the movie, and Duplass, who wrote it with him, make a commendable effort in observing its characters' tics in hyper-specific detail.
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Every year, over 480,000 people die from tobacco use and secondhand smoke according to the American Lung Association, so any attempt to curb smoking is commendable.
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Aim Sinpeng, a digital politics expert from the University of Sydney, said the report was commendable in opening up the conversation on Facebook's impact on human rights.
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Arlington officials said although the service of those in WASP was commendable, it did not "reach the level of Active Duty service required" to be buried there.
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It's commendable that hospitals focus overwhelmingly on day-to-day quality of care, but times change, and they must look at their mission with a broader perspective.
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Hodges's leadership is commendable, but the full commitment to the alliance, the security of Europe, and Western interests cannot rest with one general's ingenuity and sheer will.
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"For a sovereign nation to prosecute and punish, under the law, those responsible for the illegal trade in drugs is, of course, understandable, even commendable," he said.
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To be fair, this is a rather uncomfortable question to answer and he did choose to tell the truth instead of pleading the fifth, which is commendable.
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For Washington, while these operations are commendable, they're not good enough because they don't address the heart of the matter -- the terrorists that target Americans in Afghanistan.
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A commendable policy — like reducing the number of regulations — is rendered meaningless if agencies' existing, sweeping authority is not narrowed to a few important, identifiable public problems.
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That Facebook is moving on misinformation and fake news in a more aggressive manner is certainly commendable and there are probably worse methods for going about it.
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I think it is very commendable that you are so dedicated to criminal justice, that you are spending your time and money to do this important research.
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Trying to shake off the sameness that has settled over a lot of wildlife programming is a commendable instinct, but the treatment here is a bit much.
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Laura, played by Evan Rachel Wood with her usual commendable concentration and attention to detail, works for a home-cleaning company run by her father (Denis O'Hare).
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It's also commendable that ABC devoted a chunk of primetime programming to a first-person account of sexual violence, before directing viewers to a sexual assault helpline.
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If you've been given the right to do so, contributing to the best outcome for Country C (by your lights) would be a commendable thing to do.
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Hardly. Teamwork has led to a commendable new cheese: Bone Char Square, initially developed by the chef Dan Barber to serve at Blue Hill at Stone Barns.
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So it's commendable that Daniel Handler's newest novel, "All the Dirty Parts," is a coming-of-age story that doesn't shy away from the omnipresence of smut.
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"It's very commendable that somebody in that position wants to try to earn their own living," Philip Hammond, a former chancellor of the Exchequer, told BBC radio.
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There are a few commendable sides: greens smoky-sweet from courting ham hocks and bacon, and fried green tomatoes crackly with bread crumbs from leftover Leidenheimer loaves.
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"In coming forward with these allegations, the whistleblower made a commendable effort to ensure public safety," the special counsel wrote, urging Congress to continue its oversight efforts.
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Taking a step back and addressing those holes when Rawlings might well have been the kind of fighter Vanzant could overwhelm through pace and pressure is commendable.
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On a serious note, both airline and airport staff did a commendable job of managing what is clearly a very challenging situation for both them and their customers.
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" Nonetheless, Baer added, "Having said all of this, I readily acknowledge the Court's commendable attempt to compress the process of correcting the map to conduct timely primary elections.
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It's commendable that the company is supporting its older phones like this, though OG Pixel users won't get quite the same quality as owners of the later models.
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Industry insiders say Apple's approach to data collection and user privacy, while commendable from an ideological standpoint, hamper its ability to keep pace with other Silicon Valley heavyweights.
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EXPERIENCED PILOT Ethiopian Airlines said its pilot Yared Getachew, who was a dual Ethiopian-Kenyan national, had a "commendable record" and more than 8,000 hours of flying experience.
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Even today, seven years later, when he couldn't live a life further from what he grew up knowing, he clings onto his background with an almost commendable stubbornness.
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So while legislative efforts are commendable, he says, a mechanism needs to be in place that appropriately reprimands staff for violating the law—and a prisoner's civil rights.
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Between friendships, relationships, work or school, and the already commendable efforts we put into being healthy, who has time to add resolution-related to-dos to the list?
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The honesty was important, but not necessarily commendable; this also colors Tarantino as a more hypocritical director than his feminist-leaning works such as Death Proof would suggest.
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The unusually high-profile intervention — which appears to be in line with Beijing's new foreign policy goal of becoming a "leading global power" — is on its face commendable.
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There are many commendable California cabs, but my favorite is Ridge Monte Bello, a Bordeaux blend from a vineyard in the Santa Cruz Mountains that's predominantly cabernet sauvignon.
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They nominated and elected a sexist, bigoted, white-supremacist sympathizer because, to them, those traits were, on the one hand, not disqualifying, and on the other hand, commendable.
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While transforming your body is commendable, far more impressive is maintaining a fit physique and healthy lifestyle that allow you to enjoy your life in a balanced way.
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Krieger, too, ends his book with a set of recommendations, all commendable—minimize inequality, share access to abundance—but none tied to particular buildings or developments that work.
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This is a novel with broad sweep, accomplished with commendable economy and humor, in a sinewy, compact prose that has the grace and power of a gifted athlete.
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"For a sovereign nation to prosecute and punish, under the law, those responsible for the illegal trade in drugs is, of course, understandable, even commendable," Mr. Taylor wrote.
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While commendable, this action is not really environmental enforcement, which is about stopping pollution and making polluters pay out of their own pockets for the harm they cause.
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Say what you will about the UFC's treatment of its fighters, but the organization does have a pretty commendable history of telling fighters when it's time to retire.
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Some people will likely play the map simply for fun, as they would any other game, but the campaign's approach is a fresh one, and it's certainly commendable.
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"Countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have largely maintained a commendable open-door policy," said Eduardo Stein, UNHCR-IOM Joint Special Representative for Refugees and Migrants from Venezuela.
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This kind of collective rallying power against a multinational corporation would be commendable — if not for the very fact that the Note7 is a ticking time bomb, of course.
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We were suitably impressive by the phone, noting the company's commendable ability to build upon its mobile devices' impressive feature set, while maintaining a consistent and aesthetically pleasing product.
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" Sam Joseph Benallack, however, felt the East Liverpool police had done something commendable: "These images are necessary to educate people about rampant drug use in the presence of children.
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"The teenager's quick thinking actions are certainly commendable and he later said that he remembered the Fire Service advice given in his school talk in Year 5," Helliwell said.
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HSBC in 2015 spent more than $680 million and added 2, 584 compliance staff while making 'commendable progress' but still has more to do to improve oversight, Capers said.
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By co-sponsoring the study, the American Bar Association took a necessary and commendable step of demonstrating leadership on a difficult issue that had gone unexamined for too long.
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On their company blog, Twitter lays out their new rules: While Twitter's updated policies are commendable, the site operated with little to no accountability for triggering tweets for years.
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Clinton for the boring reason that she had been my senator in New York, and though I didn't always agree with her, I thought she did a commendable job.
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Hanging over this is the acknowledgement by the department, which initially seemed commendable, that street cops don't have any real training and direction about how to make adversarial arrests.
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While some suggested Drake only called out the man because he knew he'd have the support of the crowd, one Twitter user wrote that his stance is still commendable.
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While the bar does a commendable job of evoking the past, it feels more like an after-work or pre-dinner spot, rather than somewhere one would seek out.
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The doctrine on its face is unremarkable and even commendable for a Court seeking to limit the ability of unelected judges to make arguably political decisions over governmental policy.
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That's a commendable goal, but the widespread adoption of driverless cars will happen only when people are comfortable with carmakers' solutions to these ethical dilemmas, however seldom they arise.
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I see her every morning, I see her train and I see her sweat and I see all the work she does outside of the gym and THAT is commendable!
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As an actress of immeasurable influence and resources, her desire to elevate issues of equality and women's rights on every platform available to her are commendable and important to acknowledge.
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Yet while Andromeda makes some commendable attempts at humor in romancing, and the inclusion of more varying types of relationships is welcome, it misses the mark more often than not.
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Jelly Belly's dud flavors did a commendable job of capturing the disgusting essence of earwax, grass, and the like, while blunting the full impact of those tastes with candy sweetness.
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Instead, they set up a working group on detainees on Friday, which de Mistura said was "commendable as a first step towards reaching a comprehensive arrangement between the conflicting parties".
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"I believe the cruise lines have it all under control and the fact that they have these drills and take extra precautions like the dusk-til-dawn ban are commendable."
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And Hatch praised the guidance as "commendable," arguing the IRS doesn't need the donor information and that requiring the information in the past has posed a risk to taxpayers' security.
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Although CMS' efforts to rout out fraudulent activity are commendable, maintaining a system that is highly inefficient, costly, inconsistent and burdensome to both providers and Medicare is not the answer.
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The faith the team showed in giving Luck a gigantic new contract while declaring last season to be a fluke was commendable, as long as it actually was a fluke.
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"Kocienda offered this one final warning to candidates hoping to nail the interview (which also doubles as commendable life advice): "Don't portray yourself as someone who knows all the answers.
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Their savings rates are commendable considering Federal Reserve data shows that about one-quarter of non-retired adults have absolutely no retirement savings, nor do they expect any pension benefits.
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The Brewers have found a way to both, and it's commendable not only from a baseball standpoint, but in a weird way, from a decency point of view as well.
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There's also a clip of the robot repeatedly slipping on a metal bar placed under it by its human captors — but it keeps its feet under it with commendable alacrity.
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On home-remodeling shows, couples are escorted to different houses, made to choose one, then enjoined to sledgehammer the walls and expose the structure's commendable bones — and its alarming rot.
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You can do a decent workout in 20 to 30 minutesFirst up, that you're prioritizing 20 to 30 minutes of your incredibly long day for exercise is commendable, so bravo.
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Some principle is at work, I thought: commendable, taking an interest in human life, but to be safe I threw some snow over my shoulder, since I had no salt.
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Any such projects are against Blizzard's Terms of Use, but by all accounts the Nostalrius team ran it with commendable professionalism, and the team even adhered to Blizzard's original patch schedule.
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Actually managing to ship a Kickstarter almost seems commendable these days, and now you can buy Mighty directly from the company for $85.99; orders placed today should ship by July 30th.
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Over the years, Motorola's done a commendable job setting itself apart — and from the looks of it, the company's acquisition shows no signs of abating under its relatively new Lenovo umbrella.
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Reactions TO THE EDITOR: Re "Bodies at War" (May 31): Mary Roach identifies and explains a commendable but not widely known Army effort to enhance the survivability of ground combat vehicles.
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" Similarly commendable is a suicidal man, in one of her novels, who lives near a church, and who makes sure that "the striking of the hour coincided with the revolver shot.
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Which is both commendable and a possible explanation for why his former college roommate told The Daily Beast that he'd rather vote for a name picked randomly from the phone book.
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In the end, "Defying the Nazis," directed by Ken Burns and Artemis Joukowsky, a grandson of the Sharps, remains valuable to watch, and commendable for bringing the couple's story to light.
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It checks off all the boxes for basic transportation but throws in a commendable suite of extras that should keep owners so satisfied that they might decide to skip an upgrade.
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There is a commendable bipartisan urge within Congress to rebuke the Trump administration for failing to articulate a comprehensive strategy for countering the "devil may care" foreign policy of the Kremlin.
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These limitations aside, Ellsberg's effort to make vivid the genuine madness of the "doomsday machine," and the foolishness of betting our survival on mutually assured destruction, is both commendable and important.
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"This authoritarian approach to governance threatens to irreparably damage 30 years of commendable efforts by the Philippines to strengthen the rule of law and respect for the human rights," he said.
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I keep hearing people go on about something called the "Senate popular vote," which Democrats won overwhelmingly, but that's like mentioning your high G.P.A. at a singing contest: commendable but irrelevant.
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While that kind of life-choice is much easier to make if you have the resources to hire a personal chef to cook all your meals for you, it's still commendable.
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While laws such as the Anna Westin Act — which allocated critical funds towards awareness education — are commendable, the resources to help us fully comprehend these complex mental illnesses are still lacking.
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New ideas and new faces are needed to carry on the torch from past opposition political leadership who within their capacities have done a lot of commendable work under difficult conditions.
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Religion can do (and mostly does) the commendable job of connecting people's everyday lives and actions with great imperishable truths, without inspiring them to go out and kill themselves and other people.
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Being hand pies, these fruit-filled delights are meant to fit in the palm of your hand, so the fact that Clark-Bojin managed to incorporate so much detail is definitely commendable.
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The device was first unveiled at CES earlier this year, and unlike many of the new smartwatches we saw then, the Smart Outdoor Watch was commendable for its clear sense of purpose.
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Its products — which range from general solutions for small businesses through to products built for specific verticals like healthcare — currently have an average churn rate of 10% (commendable for an SaaS product).
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Yet Company Curiosities is a commendable collection of sources amassed by a scholar who has long worked in the field and gained access to numerous archives, encompassing a staggering array of sources.
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While the move by the administration to involve Native Americans in communication and planning on infrastructure projects is commendable, it is also too little too late for the Sioux in North Dakota.
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Julianne Margvelashvili's Classic Cuisine of Soviet Georgia and Darra Goldstein's Georgian Feast are commendable efforts, but both books are over 20 years old and lack pictures to inspire or guide the neophyte.
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Like CBS's "Code Black," which arrived last fall with Marcia Gay Harden in the lead role, the series is an effort to put a female doctor front and center, which is commendable.
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The person Alanis was meant to trust most, the one in charge of her cash, taxes and investment choices, has admitted he was behind a stitch-up so bold it's almost commendable.
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Recognizing the potential ramifications of this infectious disease, he utilized the tools available to him in an attempt to raise public awareness — a commendable action in the eyes of any rational observer.
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I'm in no position to judge the value of the decisions and policy changes the task force have developed, but Vice President Mike Pence is doing a commendable job marshalling the effort.
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It's a vast and arresting resort that is doing commendable conservation work (the new Papagayo Explorers Club is cataloging every species on the peninsula), and offers the best-paying work in Guanacaste.
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Its commendable that the Hungarian State Opera and the Hungarian National Ballet, to make their American debuts, brought some 350 artists and technical crew members to New York to present six productions.
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We were far too slow to report and embrace the social and political upheavals by racial and ethnic minorities, women, and gay people — movements we take for granted today as commendable progress.
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It is displaying commendable discipline, he said, because Apple has had no better use for the money, either internally or with a big acquisition of a less-profitable or money-losing company.
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While it's commendable that Thompson is able to save about $1,000 every month, she could be making her money work harder for her by putting it into a high-yield savings account.
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Missing from the Murthy's commendable call to arms, though, was mention of the role technology plays in reducing drug diversion and doctor shopping, and providing ready access to services to support patients.
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He has shown commendable stalwartness in walking the walk, so to speak, not just starting a foundation to help victims of Haiti's 2010 earthquake but traveling there to help on the ground.
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On paper it was a commendable feat, but it was a rocky campaign for the former Napoli boss whose team never seemed to fully adapt to his so-called "Sarri-ball" system.
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Like far too many highly paid, pampered celebrities, Kaepernick has evidently deluded himself into believing his commendable success in the entertainment field makes him a moral beacon, a voice for the downtrodden.
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The Raptors' whole those-shots-will-fall-eventually attitude is commendable from a confidence standpoint, but there is undeniable evidence that what worked in January is no longer working in April and May.
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While Martin's story did include a black character in the 1980s, and while it's commendable that he's working to raise the issue of erasure, the adaptation is working off of some shaky footing.
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So far, automakers have done a commendable job meeting the latest fuel economy standards, which gradually ratchet up year by year, and which set different targets for different sizes and categories of vehicles.
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"The ministry has handled industry pressure well, it is a commendable step," said Amit Yadav, director, southeast Asia region at Framework Convention Alliance for Tobacco Control, a group of more than 350 organizations.
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So, helping people on the micro level—donating clothing, giving away pocket change, buying someone a meal, maybe letting someone camp out back for a bit—are all commendable actions to be encouraged.
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"They're Watching," a horror film by Micah Wright and Jay Lender, does a commendable amount with very little, using an amusing premise to separate itself from much of the genre's low-budget fare.
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Mr. Amendola of the Consorzio Tiberina called it "commendable" that city administrators were "thinking of people who perhaps can't go on vacation or to the sea," but said Tiberis had missed the mark.
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As Jason Kint points out, it&aposs commendable that Mr. Dorsey wants to understand and collaborate in markets outside the US, but that doesn&apost require the CEO to be on the ground.
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Letter To the Editor: "A Severe Reception at America's Front Door" (news article May 2) is commendable for its careful refusal to ascribe tough scrutiny at United States borders solely to President Trump.
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In our wellness-obsessed era, the idea of working yourself to the bone is no longer a commendable trait but a failure of self-care; recreation is now cast as a divine pursuit.
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Just this year, House Bill 1375 — which takes steps to equitably share funding from local tax dollars with charter schools — was passed due to the commendable cooperation of Colorado's Republican and Democrat legislators.
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While its relatively shallow financial markets mean that it remains a hostage to global capital flows volatility, policymakers have exhibited commendable finesse in preserving currency stability without resorting to measures that might spook markets.
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The flexibility of natural gas will also help India meet its commendable renewable-energy target, providing reliable support for the integration of an increasing share of variable wind and solar generation at lowest cost.
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However, it is precisely the nature of the protective nation state that means that, despite his commendable efforts, Kingsley is not likely to change the course of European or U.S. realpolitik with his book.
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They thought it was commendable and that they were well aware of the problem, but they couldn't help because they had to think of their clients, and it would be bad for their business.
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The authors have done a commendable job of returning to his rightful place the man who inflated the reputation of art and artists so successfully that he himself was squeezed out of the picture.
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By contrast, notwithstanding his commendable insistence on deploying the phrase "radical Islamist terrorism," President Trump has portrayed the Iranian threat largely in military terms, devoting little attention to the regime's longstanding human rights abuses.
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The unity was inspiring and the support of teams that mustered the backbone to condemn the inflammatory words of the President through a press release was commendable, but what are we talking about now?
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Fans of the scene were of course on board, and it received generally favorable reviews and scored a commendable 8 in the album charts – but it didn't quite cross over into the wider audience.
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Yet even with these shortcomings, "Call Her Ganda" ("ganda" means "beautiful" in Tagalog) remains commendable for its focus on the case, and for its insistence that the crime against Ms. Laude not be forgotten.
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That was well over two months ago, and while Uber's excellent executive leadership team is making commendable progress on these changes, many of the most important issues agreed to by the board remain unaddressed.
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The women behind the Time's Up campaign — some of whom are assault survivors themselves — are undoubtedly sincere in their efforts, and their fund-raising for a legal-defense fund for working women is commendable.
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Some schools make the commendable effort of allocating hours to L.G.B.T. health, but often they focus too narrowly on subjects like sexually transmitted infections and H.I.V., Dr. Holthouser explained, which can further stigmatize patients.
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The commendable aspect of her behavior, is that her aloofness and silence has kept her rivals in ZANU PF on their toes and the regrouping of her supporters has given their adversaries sleepless nights.
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The Weeknd creates a nightmare world for people to play out their fantasies as the biggest piece of shit they can be—which, while not particularly commendable, certainly isn't confined to a particular gender.
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Huawei's balance of the two with the Mate X is commendable, and with a 5.4mm thickness of the main display panel, the device still enjoys that sci-fi cachet that comes from being vanishingly thin.
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Whatever might be decided in politics, we Americans will likely continue to be carried forth not by any commendable nobility of principle or purpose, but by an altogether predictable eruption of personal and collective agitation.
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It's not necessarily a commendable perception—it can be fed by racism as well as by the Protestant ethic—but any program that aspires to expand the welfare state has to take it into account.
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On top of making the kind of melodic punk that makes you feel like you're stuck in a dream, these guys are commendable for their relentless approach to touring (kind of like fellow Canadians PUP).
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Where to eat Bundu Khan is a Pakistani kebab house with a commendable menu of hard-to-find dishes, such as paya, a cozy braise of cow or goat feet with a silky, peppery sauce.
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Xolani Dube, a political analyst from the Xubera Institute of Research and Development based in Durban said while it is commendable for governments to strive for gender balance, political appointments should based on merit and performance.
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"It is commendable that the authors of this bill recognize the significance of the La Lomita chapel to the Catholic community and to the historical and cultural heritage of the whole Rio Grande Valley," he said.
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Editorial The people of Ireland have shown a commendable willingness to strike anachronistic bias from the country's laws, most emphatically in legalizing gay marriage last year in a referendum approved by three out of five voters.
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Still, "the structural changes the region has shown are commendable," Khoman added, noting that the diversification strategies of many Gulf states and investment in their non-oil sectors should make them more resilient to oil shocks.
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While it's commendable that publications like Black Bride, Bridal Bridal Bliss, and MunaLuchi Bride saw a need (and created a space) to celebrate Black brides, it's not unreasonable to expect representation at mainstream media properties, either.
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He will remain on the Citadel forever, but he hopes by doing a commendable job, he can get a clone of himself (complete with all his memories from the Citadel) created on a more interesting planet.
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Kennedy's stoicism is certainly commendable, but the electorate deserves to know when their President is so incapacitated by pain that he can barely function—and to the point where he's forced to seek out illicit narcotics.
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It is my opinion that the remaining language more than adequately conveys the message, and should not be used as an excuse not to vaccinate nor to undermine the commendable efforts of the Department of Health.
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In a way, though, arguing for a Watergate-style replay of the hearings, while commendable, is also a way of wishing that it could be 1973 again: that we could have that shared focus and trust.
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Echoing Gostin's sentiment, Jha said that among the few commendable aspects of Trump's handling of the outbreak was the decision to tap Dr. Deborah Birx to be the coordinator of the White House's coronavirus task force.
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U.S. District Judge Eldon Fallon in New Orleans on Tuesday wrote that the lawyers' "diligent and commendable effort" justified the fee award after they secured a $775 million settlement with the companies resolving thousands of lawsuits.
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It's one of many commendable things about this book that it both relishes the brothers' talents and presents them within a bigger picture, revealing the many varieties of corruption and damaging obsession that surround such endeavors.
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The show would be better if the brothers spent less time laughing at their own jokes, but over all it does a commendable job of translating the deadpan quirkiness of the podcast to the small screen.
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With their exhaustive touring schedule, it's not just commendable that they've managed to stay consistent, releasing two of the year's best albums in U.F.O.F. and Two Hands; it's also impressive that they've gotten better doing it.
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However commendable even the Trump administration's most ardent supporters might find the president's goals in Mexico and China, the unfortunate truth is that tariffs are insufficient at best and counterproductive at worst in achieving non-trade outcomes.
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Raising money for a good cause is a commendable thing to do at any age, but for six-year-old children, opportunities to organize big-time fundraising events are few and far between… Or so we thought.
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Mr Modi portrays himself as a leader who is willing to break boldly with convention—from the botched withdrawal in 2016 of most cash in circulation to the (commendable) abolition of instant Islamic divorce on July 30th.
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It's just a shame that, once again, it seems to be more informed by identity tourism stitched together with pop culture references than a deep connection with a community that could benefit an otherwise potentially commendable project.
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I think what's most commendable about PizzaDome isn't the modern technology that lets you cook a pizza and charge your phone at the same time in a forest, but that the dome is a Kickstarter success story.
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Yet in the wider spaces of "A Place Called Winter," Gale plants unmusical patches of exposition — how to install plumbing in a frontier home, for instance — that point to commendable research but don't make for great fiction.
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In a rare but commendable act of bipartisanship earlier this year, Congress came together to pass the largest public lands package in a decade, which included the permanent reauthorization of the successful Land and Water Conservation Fund.
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And Brown is taking extremely commendable actions to reduce not only California's supply of fossil fuels, but the demand for them—a necessary action if the U.S. is ever going to transition to a clean-energy economy.
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"Her work on comprehensive immigration reform in the Senate was something that struck us as being commendable, especially in southern Nevada where that issue is so critical for us," said Ric Anderson, the paper's editorial page editor.
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The Eavis' are a great family and they've done an amazing job of creating the most incredible festival in the world, next to Burning Man, and most of the money they make goes to charity, which is commendable.
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In 2014, I wrote about San Francisco General Hospital, where the commendable C-section rate in low-risk births (now about 15 percent) can be attributed largely to the fact that doctors work shifts and earn a salary.
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"Supply-side efforts are beginning to show their effectiveness in bending the curve of prescription opioid use, which is both commendable and necessary," study co-author Matthew Ellis, an epidemiologist at Washington University in St. Louis, told me.
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With enough transparency, the hiring of a public editor or other watchdog and the right guidelines, which it seems to have had in place, that would have been viewed by the media as a difficult but commendable goal.
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"Officials in both the County and City have gone to great lengths in the last couple years to address this crisis, and their efforts are impressive and commendable; yet much more needs to be done," the suit says.
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"As the government has previously noted, Charles's evident rehabilitation is commendable, and may well provide a compelling basis for executive clemency," Donald Q. Cochran, the United States attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee, wrote in a briefing.
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The story "pulses with affection for Mumbai," our reviewer, Marcel Theroux said, praising the book's "broad sweep, accomplished with commendable economy and humor, in a sinewy, compact prose that has the grace and power of a gifted athlete."
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Martin said the organization's "can do" culture, while commendable and even a bit understandable, gives project managers the expectation that failed projects will receive additional funding, and that the resulting scientific successes will overshadow any delays or budgetary overruns.
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On Wednesday, Mr. de Blasio said "it's commendable" that Mr. Cuomo was devoting new resources to so-called supportive housing units that can help homeless people, and he praised the governor's expansion of family-leave benefits for state workers.
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With this added camera, you might get an extra bit of creative flexibility while shooting castles and lakes on a sunny day, but this advantage is frankly too limited to be commendable, primarily because of the poor image quality.
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"That the Justice Department should seek divestitures would — absent the Trump effect — seem logical, commendable and a continuation of recent merger practice," author and Columbia professor Tim Wu wrote in a New York Times op-ed earlier this month.
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Having grown up around grandparents with high blood pressure pumping up inflatable cuffs on their arms (called a sphygmomanometer, apparently!) every time they needed to get a measurement, I find this VivoWatch BP a commendable advance in health tech.
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Here's the New York Knicks getting gutted by the Indiana Pacers (they switched out of their zone on the next play, but generally use it quite a bit): It's at once a baffling oddity, commendable venture, and white flag.
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Dating Around is commendable for attempting to subvert the genre's more trite tropes as well as delivering a noticeably more diverse contestant pool — the six-part series features older couples as well as a gay bachelor and lesbian bachelorette.
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Britain has now taken a commendable step under a measure known as the Dubs amendment, named after a peer who was himself a child refugee, to let in unaccompanied refugee youths, of whom there were about 1,300 in Calais.
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"This administration shares the goals set out by this legislation, and under Mayor de Blasio, the Landmarks Commission is already doing a commendable job of meeting the deadlines proposed," Natalie Grybauskas, a spokeswoman, said in a statement on Thursday.
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To the Editor: Re "New Standards for Painkillers Aim to Stem Overdose Deaths" (front page, March 16): The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been doing a commendable job monitoring and controlling the prescription opioid drug overdose epidemic.
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Mark Feierstein, who oversaw Latin America on the National Security Council during the Obama administration, said that strident U.S. action on Venezuela, however commendable, won't loosen Maduro's grip on power if it's not accompanied by pressure from the streets.
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"It is our opinion that the proposal to increase the royalty rate for terrains beyond 1000 metres, from zero percent to 3 percent, is commendable but it is necessary to also make corresponding adjustments in other categories," he said.
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Her solo music was upbeat and catchy; she had bona fide hits with "Irreplaceable" and "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)," both topping Billboard's Hot 100; her dance moves sparked viral parodies; and her vocal performances were commendable.
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The Met's spare but very commendable exhibition includes some of the artist's most exemplary works, including superlative pieces like "Departure" (1932, 21984–21980) and "Bird's Hell" (290) not likely to be seen together in New York again for decades.
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Other than that, sparking up a joint before attempting exercise is likely to limit one's effectiveness in almost every way, and as such seems perversely commendable in that it is basically the ultimate test of human skill, dexterity, endurance and coordination.
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"Asean has done a commendable job in management [of] the South China Sea within the limitations that [it] operates [in]," said professor Tang Siew Mun, head of the Asean Studies Centre at Institue of Southeast Asian Studies-Yusof Ishak Institute.
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McQuarrie's attempt to understand the point-of-view of every character in his movie, bad guy or otherwise, is commendable — a good approach for any screenwriter or director, even when the stakes are as ludicrously high as they are in Fallout.
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Both browsers currently do a commendable job of protecting you online—just make sure you're running the latest version of whatever application you prefer, and a lot of the worst that the internet has to offer will automatically be rebuffed anyway.
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Then Archbishop Malcolm McMahon, the Catholic hierarch of Liverpool, flew to Rome and put to the pope his view that, while Italian concern for the little boy was commendable, the medical and legal services of Britain deserved to be respected.
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Volkan Oezdemir Ah, Volkan Oezdemir: a striking specialist with an impressive, but not jaw-dropping 13-1 overall record, fresh off a close but commendable decision defeat of Ovince St. Preux, and the UFC light heavyweight division's eighth-ranked fighter.
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There are several agriculture bills of note, all commendable, but there is no desire, let alone plan, to develop an overall strategy to shape measures like these into a policy package that Democrats could run on with success in rural America.
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One woman I spoke to said she didn't know any of her current boyfriend's ex-girlfriends' names; while this seems commendable, it is a life of low-grade torture that many women say they would not be able to deal with.
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It's a function of storytelling and archetypes across decades, of sequence upon sequence in which a woman held captive is really a woman unbound and a man is showing commendable will or ingenuity by bullying or tricking a woman into sex.
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In a pre-speech briefing, a senior administration official said that this proposal is designed, in part, to show that the Republican Party is not anti-immigrant, a commendable goal if it's actually backed up by a policy that delivers.
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"Rosenstein will be remembered not just for a lonely effort to stand up to an assault from Trump and congressional Republicans, plus his original, commendable decision to appoint Mueller, but also for stumbles in judgment along the way," Litman writes.
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"We've made commendable progress toward reducing smoking, the leading cause of death in this country," said Brian A. King, a deputy director in the office of smoking and health at the C.D.C. "But there's still work to do," he added.
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The authors of this study are commendable for trying to find a biological reason why acupuncture could treat dependence, but it also remains true that acupuncture is said to work by activating the body's hidden channels of energy, called meridian points.
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There is something almost commendable about a TV show not giving in to the desire to use a dead woman simply as a tool for generating outrage and pity (Nancy Grace, Law & Order: SVU, and roughly 98 percent of daytime cable programming).
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You might watch one of those videos of people eating 45 slices of fried bread in five minutes, or drinking 12 pints of ketchup in ten, and you might laugh, a bit, but you're not laughing because you find it funny or commendable.
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Mark Feierstein, who oversaw Latin America on the National Security Council during the Obama administration, said that strident U.S. action on Venezuela, however commendable, won&apost loosen Maduro&aposs grip on power if it&aposs not accompanied by pressure from the streets.
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Still, in a commendable move that suggests some self-awareness as a man directing a young woman in a provocative role, Winkler did make a conscious effort to seek out and hire women in advisory roles, and as part of the crew.
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Curators are typically thought of as people who conceptualize a tone for work that is not their own, but what else is there to call an artist like Travis Scott, whose arrangement of sounds is arguably more commendable than his vocal output?
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More or less, she and Tyrion just want to come up with a plan by which they do the winning part of war without the killing anyone part of war, which is commendable in the abstract but seems unlikely to actually happen.
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Lina Benabdallah, a Phd candidate in African studies at the University of Florida, says YALI is commendable not only for its focus on business and development, but because it shows that the U.S. views the program as being in its own national interest.
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The storytellers, in this case, do a commendable job of putting the player into the shoes of a specific black man living in the American South, facing aggression and prejudice, from the violence of police officers to the racist chatter of talk radio.
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Snyder's approach in Utah has been saturated by a commendable appreciation for the entire 24-second shot clock, but after two straight seasons ranked second-to-last in transition frequency, the Jazz leapt up to 19th last year, per Cleaning The Glass.
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And there's no denying that complex shows like How to Get Away With Murder, Power, and Empire have been crucial for bringing more brown faces to television — an especially commendable achievement considering how embarrassingly devoid of diversity the world of film is currently.
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"The show would be better if the brothers spent less time laughing at their own jokes, but over all it does a commendable job of translating the deadpan quirkiness of the podcast to the small screen," Neil Genzlinger wrote in The Times.
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Sure, the dialogue tends toward the "our whole lives have been screwed up" school of rhetoric, as one might expect from an enterprise that walks a commendable knife edge between utter seriousness and a knowing wink at the histrionics of it all.
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Though Canada has made lofty pledges at the G3 and other forums to improve ownership transparency, so far it has done little to keep step with the likes of Britain and the EU, which are making commendable progress towards publicly accessible registers of beneficial owners.
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Proving IVF for rhinos might be a commendable achievement, but conservationists would need to insert the embryos into many southern white females (who would have to serve as surrogate mothers for the northern whites) to produce enough northern whites to sustain a genetically healthy population.
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It may sound like some serious shenanigans are being pulled, but this is how the sausage was always made, and it's actually one of Chairman Ajit Pai's handful of commendable efforts that the process is, in some ways at least, more open to the public.
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As the scandal started emerging in 1998, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (the movement's formal name) published a fairly frank account of the horrors which had unfolded; some saw this as a commendable show of honesty, and a basis for a fresh start.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura said Syria talks in the Kazakh capital Astana on Friday had agreed on a "working group" for the release of detainees, which he said was a commendable first step towards an arrangement between the warring sides.
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At first, dozens of cardboard moving boxes did a commendable job of filling out the house, but as we dispersed the contents of a Manhattan one-bedroom into our ranch — complete with a shed, a garage, and a couple offices — our space felt empty.
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While Pence and the rest of the Trump administration has done a commendable job with appointments thus far, there are still plenty of decisions to be made to ensure that the ticket is ready to put its money where its mouth is come January.
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" KRISHNEIL NARAYAN, COORDINATOR, PACIFIC ISLANDS CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK "There is a lot of work still to be done in the realization of goals set out in the Paris Agreement but the partnerships and overall political willingness of the countries to move forward together is commendable.
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Last week, the press ballyhooed the visit to the United States of North Korea's Kim Yong Chol, making light of his role in numerous heinous North Korean hostilities, and describing him as North Korea's second-in-command, as though that is a commendable thing.
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While on the surface it is highly commendable for a well-to-do, established artist to place himself at the heart of such human and political catastrophes, I could not help but wonder about his intention and the nature and impact of his work.
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He has kept his tour card for 226 consecutive seasons, a commendable streak of consistency that he wasn't sure he would be able to extend after he had season-ending surgery for a torn labrum in his left shoulder in March of last year.
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While the limited missile strike was a commendable and overdue response to the use of chemical weapons and to countless other war crimes perpetrated by the regime in Damascus, the public performance of President Trump and his team throughout this tragic episode hardly inspires confidence.
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If anything, people who are passionate enough about the world to avoid air travel tend to be those who are also passionate about doing other commendable things — including the things Franzen says he cares about: taking care of animals, supporting refugees, donating to homelessness charities.
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Other commendable winners include "Knock Down the House," which unsurprisingly snagged an audience award; directed by Rachel Lears, it is one of a handful of movies in the festival that together offer a vivid collective portrait of the United States in its current historical moment.
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Both those ideas are commendable: We probably should develop a new set of habits governing how we interact with social media, and it seems entirely sensible that companies as powerful as Google and Facebook should face the same regulatory scrutiny as, say, television networks.
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Commendable as LG is for offering features other phone makers have long abandoned, its gamble on this year's semi-modular G5, has all but failed to move the needle; sales were lower than the company expected and it's rumored the G20153 will scrap the modular design.
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Hugely sympathetic to his subjects, he discovers again and again as he inspects their projects that, for all the commendable bits that anticipate exactly the kinds of thing we like now, there are disagreeable bits right alongside, of exactly the kinds that we don't like now.
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After leaving FSU early after three years, he played a commendable if ultimately doomed season on an atrocious Jags team that notched a mere three wins (one of which was an at-home mulligan against the Titans) en route to its head coach's sacking in December.
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Commendable as it sounded, the idea of giving individual priests more leeway in judging pastoral situations could also contain risks, Father McDonagh thought; in Ireland, for example, the country's (relatively few) young priests were often more conservative, and more inclined to enforce rules rigidly, than old-timers like himself.
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But it's hard to think less of the ASLAN project; taking an assistive technology off the screen and putting it in the real world, where it can be interacted with, viewed from many angles, and otherwise share the physical space of the people it helps, is a commendable goal.
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Lindsey Graham (R-SC) did a commendable job last year interrogating Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg about Facebook's lack of competition, for instance, while Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren is proposing to break up big tech — but Trump supporters like Hawley don't usually express these concerns in good faith.
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"In addition to an attractive fundamental stock analysis, the stocks included in this report reflect companies that have demonstrated a commendable effort to incorporate ESG principles into their core strategy and business model and have outlined goals and initiatives to further enhance their ESG performance," the report said.
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Adam Wescott and Scott Fisher, Ms. Lazzarato's management team, are executive producers for the film, and to a great extent "This Is Everything" seems to follow an agenda set by them in tandem with the movie's subject, which is largely commendable in its pitch for acceptance and against bigotry.
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The affair between the two was not a commendable decision, but hardly one of national interest, especially given the President's own history of extramarital affairs and sexual assault allegations (which he denies) -- and in the course of their text messages, both expressed concern about a potential Trump presidency.
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Peggy Drexler: Women aren't turning out for feminism It's commendable, of course, that after the raft of horrendous sexual harassment allegations against Harvey Weinstein and other major power brokers in the media, more and more women are speaking out against the men who abuse positions of power at their expense.
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It's a complicated web, and though this is a conversation that's been going on for a while, Under My Thumb tackles it with humor, intelligence, and a commendable, broad scope that shines a light on the many levels at which sexism is at play in the music we often love anyway.
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And it doesn't shy away from the conspicuously literary, treating the writer's explorations of Wagner (sparked by his love interest and future wife Edith, played by Lily Collins) and passion for philology (sparked by chats with the intimidating professor Joseph Wright, played by Derek Jacobi) with a commendable amount of detail.
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Get Good has a lot of good, generic advice for growing as a person — perfect practice makes perfect; being pleasant to be around as a teammate will help you in other areas; set reasonable, achievable goals and you might actually achieve them — that some readers won't get elsewhere, and that's commendable.
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Just as important, his conduct of the conflicts in Afghanistan and against ISIS in Iraq and Syria has demonstrated an equally commendable deference to the judgment of his commanders rather than the sort of White House micromanagement and second-guessing of the military that characterized Obama's record as commander in chief.
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Above: 'Ghost Blade HD' teaser trailer And Ghost Blade has now, as of February 28th, made the jump to HD systems, available for PlayStation 4, Steam, Xbox One and Wii U. And it's still pretty darn good, without being close to top of its class—a commendable B+ of an experience.
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Start10 comes with a commendable number of options for you to play around with: there are actually three different looks to choose from (classic Windows, new Windows, and a fusion of both), and you can tweak icon sizes and colors as well as the appearance of the Start menu as a whole.
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It is commendable that Cuba will participate in a 2016 Human Rights Dialogue with the U.S. As Obama alluded to in his speech, there is much to be learned from each other's systems and we have to be "frank and candid" with the Cubans while also recognizing that America is not perfect.
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Not only was she very good at the Central Command's headquarters in Tampa, but she carried out a highly commendable job both as congressionally-confirmed principal deputy under secretary of Defense to then-Comptroller David Norquist, and then as Norquist's acting replacement when he moved up to become the DOD's deputy secretary.
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She said Trump would "probably have more rights" than he's been afforded during the impeachment inquiry if he received "a parking ticket or moving violation" and praised Mick Mulvaney's "commendable" job as acting White House chief of staff while appearing to confirm that Trump has been soliciting advice about his top aide.
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"It was during a time when I was getting ready to come out and obviously we are in very different situations but I thought that Caitlyn having the courage to come out and be who she was, especially in a way more public way than I have ever dealt with, was really commendable," he said.
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" The study stops short of projecting what Haiti's cholera death toll might be today, but said that "if the estimates presented here are correct, then many deaths in Haiti were never counted in the official statistics during the first wave of the cholera epidemic, despite commendable efforts to promptly implement a national cholera surveillance system.
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Her candor with numbers is commendable throughout: low-ball starting salary ($130,000); what she and Harry paid for their 57th Street co-op ($000,000 in 1986); and the oceanfront house in Quogue, N.Y. ($125,000 plus a 24-year-and-up lease on the land with the mortgage guaranteed by Harry's then-employer Mort Zuckerman).
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In 2016, the company committed $5 million to the crisis, and a large portion of these funds went to the I.R.C. While Welcome Home is a commendable program, said Dr. Bjorn Hanson, an adjunct professor at the Tisch Center for Hospitality at New York University, it's also one that's a creative marketing campaign for TripAdvisor.
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Adapted from "Heretics," an episode of "This American Life" (one of the movie's producers is Ira Glass, the host and executive producer of that radio program), the movie is directed by Joshua Marston, whose earlier pictures include "Maria Full of Grace" (2004) and "The Forgiveness of Blood" (2011), both of which showed a commendable sensitivity to cultural diversity.
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Taxpayer Funding of ObamaCare, Including Plans That Cover Elective Abortion While it is commendable that we now have a majority of states that have opted out of covering abortion on demand, it is important to highlight that taxpayers in those states still pay federal taxes that are used to pay for coverage that includes abortion on demand in other states.
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For those of us trying to hang on to our affiliation with the Catholic Church, Pope Francis's recent defrocking of Theodore McCarrick, a former cardinal and archbishop of Washington, though commendable, is no recompense for the blindness, the arrogance, the cruelty of a system that allowed that pathetic man to become the shepherd of one of the most visible dioceses in the world.
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Were Friday's inter-Korean summit meeting between the South's Moon Jae-In and the North's Kim Jong Un a fictional play, it would be a commendable aesthetic fulfillment of the Aristotelian unities: The unity of "action" (single action — the meeting itself), "time" (occurring over no more than 24 hours — April 27), and "place" (unfolding in a single existing place — the border village Peace House).
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" (On Wednesday, after The Times published a version of this article online, the ad maker, Mr. Siegel, removed the reference to Mr. Cuomo from his website.) Susan Lerner of Common Cause New York, a watchdog group, said the video seemed commendable, and so "it's really surprising that the people involved and the governor are not willing to disclose who they're raising money from and what they're planning to spend it on.
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It's great to see more and more women embracing the curls and teaching the younger generations that beauty is far more than what they see on TV. What this salon is doing is commendable, it may not seem like a big deal to most people, but from a young age we are taught that how we look is not necessarily beautiful, or AS beautiful as the models or celebrities we see, because of our hair.
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A variety of opinions is not only absolutely necessary to our natures but is likewise of all things most useful, since if all men were of one mind, there would be no need of councils, no subject of learning and eloquence…Within this process we shall hear one another patiently, put the weight of every man's reason against our own, and at last form a judgment upon the matter which will be honest and commendable.
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Status: Starting over Southeast Division 49-33 last season Key newcomers: Jodie Meeks, Mike Scott Key departures: Bojan Bogdanovic Outlook: If the newcomers list seems rather short, that is likely a result of the Wizards spending $393 million on a contract extension for John Wall and matching a $106.5 million offer sheet for Otto Porter Jr. The commitment to a young and talented team was commendable, but it also limited Washington's flexibility for other moves.
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She focuses commendable attention on exemplary but overlooked figures like Bessie Jeong, who fled to the Mission Home to escape a forced marriage and went on to become the first Chinese woman to graduate from Stanford; Yamada Waka, a Japanese woman who escaped sexual slavery in Seattle, converted to Christianity at the Mission Home and became a pioneering feminist; and above all Tien Fuh Wu, a former abused mui tsai (household slave) who became Cameron's indispensable aide and friend.
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He's being ushered on a black carpet, so to speak, and he took that time out to take that road to speak to all of his fans ... He attacked not only the audacity of Trump but he also attacked the fact that he has to step up there and say, 'OK, look, I have a white demographic and I'm going to address you all to think in a way that everybody is thinking about (Trump), especially the demographic on the black carpet that let me in,' so that was commendable.
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