The problem, he said, is how to "meet all these laudable objectives with one program and with funds that are not unlimited."

This may well be a laudable objective.

On the face of it, this is a laudable objective.

"The result is that many schemes with laudable objectives have simply fizzled out when funding has diminished," he says.

But tucked away at the end of his acknowledgments there is a short sentence that would appear to undermine this laudable objective.

"It's a laudable objective, but hardly likely to happen."

This laudable objective has my full support.

My group believes that the modification proposed has those laudable objectives.

And if we are in a crisis, President-in-Office, then the laudable objectives you have just described would again be out of our reach.

This is an apparently laudable objective, but one that is impossible to achieve.