Commended

We commended him for his good work.

The returning soldiers were commended for their bravery in battle.

He left the government of the kingdom to the Queen, his mother, and earnestly commended his wife and children to her care.

However faultlessly these tasks were achieved, she never commended: it was a maxim with her that praise is inconsistent with a teacher's dignity, and that blame, in more or less unqualified measure, is indispensable to it.

You are to be commended for that.

Although precautions due to the pandemic had mandated restrictions on freedom of assembly during Zambia’s recent election campaign, international observers commended the generally peaceful election and the subsequent transfer of power from the former President Lungu to the new President Hichilema.

I commended him according to his merits.

Nevertheless, while their doings were not recognized officially by the government, the perpetrators were neither punished nor reprimanded for their excursions against Spanish commerce at home or in the West Indies; rather were they commended, and it was considered not altogether a discreditable thing for men to get rich upon the spoils taken from Spanish galleons in times of nominal peace.