The EP members almost certainly have no idea what the software patent related consequences of these otherwise laudable attempts at "alignment" would be.

Mr. Hynes is making a laudable attempt to run as a law-and-order candidate who opposes the death penalty.

Typically there is a short anodyne introduction to the economy of the recipient nation, emphasising the need for conservation and the nation's laudable attempts to meet it.

Because of the development of the Revolt, these laudable attempts came to nothing, however.

Having missed his cue, he will have to make up for it "by some laudable attempt either of valor or policy."

The woman promptly sat down again, and at the end she applauded, along with everyone else, the laudable if mostly unsuccessful attempt to make art.

Drive it in smooth roads at regulated speeds and it makes an earnest, even laudable attempt at portraying an enthusiast's machine.

The waitress was low-key and entirely accommodating, and the menu displayed a laudable attempt to make hotel food modern.

In 2010, Paula Younger noted it as a laudable attempt to make medical information freely accessible and authoritative.

Commissioner Bangemann made a very laudable attempt to come to an amicable arrangement with the arrogant football barons on the nationality requirements.