Sentences with phrase «laudable efforts from»

Oddly billed as a comedy, I couldn't sniff out a single laugh in «Dark Stranger,» despite laudable efforts from the cast, who feel around blindly for punchlines that are never there.

Not exact matches

On the whole, both of these projects represent laudable efforts to transplant humanitarian ethics from the inner chambers of the ivory tower to humanitarian crises and military armouries.

The Minister who addressed a press conference in Lagos on Sunday said Nigerians must understand that IPOB was not set up to fight for the right of anyone or group, but as a tool to destabilize the nation, divert attention from the efforts of the Buhari Administration and obliterate the laudable achievements of the Government.

This is not a film of major incident and climactic conflict, and Claudel makes a concerted and laudable effort to steer his story away from the melodrama to which it could obviously lend itself.

Michigan's effort — though laudable, and in many ways heroic — was hobbled from the start from too many compromises and too little political support.

From where Dropout Nation sits, the effort will damage the laudable reform efforts the administration has undertaken, especially the Race to the Top and I3 initiatives.

Because while individual action and corporate social responsibility efforts are laudable, it's only at the policy level that we can really eliminate harmful items like plastic straws from the environment.

If we're truly serious about increasing access to justice, the solution won't come from incremental efforts (laudable as they are) like increasing mandatory pro bono requirements by a few hours.