But the speech was a creditable effort and his delivery has markedly improved.

It was a very creditable effort for a 17-year-old.

But despite a creditable effort, the two have not recovered their senses.

Mr. Tiwari made a creditable effort but Congress still lost in the general and state elections there.

The action was praised by the critics and reviewers as a highly creditable effort of the imagination.

"Forgive me," he said with a very creditable effort at a calm tone.

A tilted box stirred, moved upward under a powerful heave that would have been a creditable effort for two men of average strength.

He produced a creditable effort to finish second, beaten a neck by Monarch.

Yet this was a creditable effort.

All that really matters is that you make a creditable effort.