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

All due praise must be awarded to the gallant officers and men of the expedition, who exerted themselves heroically in the great cause they had undertaken.

From Our Sailors Gallant Deeds of the British Navy during Victoria's Reign by Kingston, William Henry Giles

And had his adversary but have prov’d A generous rival, he had had due praise; Let him then bear these censures, and reflect 569 Of his own slanders ’tis the due return.

From The Comedies of Terence by Colman, George