due praise
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Only the courts are due praise, for how they sorted through some legitimate legal questions in unusually rapid fashion while under fierce political fire.
From Washington Times • Oct. 7, 2014
Give due praise, of course, to Russell Wilson’s poise beyond his years, and Marshawn Lynch’s relentless running.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 3, 2014
Those on the committee received due praise from the returning council members and from the state legislature, but voices of criticism were also heard.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
He explains the Elkington mode of draining, and he gives due praise to the more recent improvements of Mr. Smith of Deanston.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843 by Various
Pope in his edition undoubtedly did many things wrong, and left many things undone; but let him not be defrauded of his due praise.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II by Johnson, Samuel
