due praise

Example Sentences

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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

If in the coming year you can develop these into accomplishments, neither yourself nor your pupil shall fail to receive your due praise.'

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 02 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno

To grant as suitable or proper; to concede; to award; as, to accord to one due praise.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah