You are praising in her a commendable social effort.

A commendable effort for sure, but one that's come too late to matter to the Mercury panel?

It was a commendable effort, but there is no such thing as Euclidian diplomacy for a civil war.

At the same time, the government undertook commendable efforts in the area of prevention.

He kept his voice even with commendable effort.

Some critics, in politics and the press, do not see all this as a commendable effort to come to grips with history.

Despite a commendable effort the fight may just be a losing battle...

I'm not sure they succeed in this more ambitious intention, but it's certainly a commendable effort by the authors.

He called the campaign "a commendable effort but a serious mistake to present condoms as the answer to the threat."

A commendable effort, none the less,' he said.