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But the activists, for obvious and laudable reasons, want this option to be taken off the books in this case and for all time.

And we endorse the principle that no goal is laudable if it increases even slightly the risk of violence against our children.

These are telling remarks, and they show how laudable exercises in empathy can end up hurting those they intend to help.

It is a very laudable spirit on the part of a dying man to wish to—ah—perpetuate these old English names.

The laudable aim of America to convert the Filipino into an American in action and sentiment will probably never be realized.

"That is very kind of you, but I fancy it is rather late to form so laudable a resolve," the officer said in his sarcastic voice.

One American house makes a laudable attempt at a more exact terminology by calling the killed cultures of bacteria bacterins.

Then the sovereign is an impious wretch, a heretic; his destruction is laudable; heaven rejoices in his overthrow.