How To Use Congratulate In A Sentence
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The council officers and the planning councillors are to be congratulated on it.
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Equal numbers have congratulated the ad agency for reviving memories of the thrill of discovering a baby is on the way.
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Ambassador Liu congratulated Baroness Warsi on her being a member of the British Cabinet as the first Muslim woman.
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It is in the early days of the rivalry that Hayes digs up the most interesting stories, such as when Cardiff's Burton scored with an extravagant scissors kick and was congratulated by players from both teams.
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I congratulated her on taking part in your elocution lessons, and she said you were helping them to be well-spoken tabloid editors.
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He is congratulated by partner and fans alike.
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He congratulated both teams for a fine game and no doubt that under-age development is certainly crucial to both clubs.
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Kate and Rich congratulated her as they tromped back to the bar to celebrate.
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People came up and congratulated me and my boob just slipped out.
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It is in the early days of the rivalry that Hayes digs up the most interesting stories, such as when Cardiff's Burton scored with an extravagant scissors kick and was congratulated by players from both teams.
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The club should be congratulated for this tremendous example of internationalism.
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I am, however, sincerely delighted to congratulate you on the achievement of a personal goal.
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I congratulate you on your excellent coverage of not only national events but also international fixtures such as F - 1 racing.
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she congratulated him somewhat insincerely
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After all, we can puff our chests out and congratulate one another: ‘We never sold out our principles.’
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We congratulate him on his special occasion and we wish him many more of the same.
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Everyone involved in organising the liturgy from the paschal fire to the music, readings, must be congratulated.
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When they wed, I was the first to congratulate them.
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It is such a pleasure to congratulate you on your graduation.Whatever you dream for, whatever you hope to achieve may come true with your effort in the future. Remember that nothing is out of your reach if only you first believe.
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When the game is over, thank the scorekeepers and congratulate the winners, then get off the floor.
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The decision of Government to send reinforcements to Ireland was mentioned as a prelude to the information from Vienna of the birth of a son to the Princess Nikolas: and then; having conjoined the two entirely heterogeneous pieces of intelligence, the composer adroitly interfused them by a careless transposition of the prelude and the burden that enabled him to play ad libitum on regrets and rejoicings; by which device the lord of Earlsfont might be offered condolences while the lady could express her strong contentment, inasmuch as he deplored the state of affairs in the sister island, and she was glad of a crisis concluding a term of suspense thus the foreign-born baby was denounced and welcomed, the circumstances lamented and the mother congratulated, in a breath, all under cover of the happiest misunderstanding, as effective as the cabalism of Prospero's wand among the Neapolitan mariners, by the skilful Irish development on a grand scale of the rhetorical figure anastrophe, or a turning about and about.
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First of all let me congratulate you on the basis that any time you can work the word ersatz into a discussion, its a good one.
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We would also like to congratulate all the prize winners from the raffle.
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Allow me to congratulate you with all my best wishes upon your having reached your sixtieth birthday.May you live a long,healthy and joyful life.
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He has spent over fifty years at the top in a very demanding profession and deserves to be congratulated for it.
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The defeated candidate gave a dignified speech in which he congratulated his rival.
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I hasten to congratulate you on the coming of your birthday.May gladness fill your every hour with joy to light your way.
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Sinitor Jones calls wan iv his thrusty hinchman to his side, an 'says he:' Mike, put on a pig-tail, an 'a blue shirt an' take a dillygation iv Chinnymen out to Canton an 'congratulate Mack on th' murdher iv mission'ries in China.
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He chaffingly congratulated me on my tracking powers, and expressed regret that I had not made my appearance earlier, so that we might have arranged a race; and by the time we had finished lunch, I was as completely convinced as I had ever been of anything in my life, that he had no connection whatsoever with the Pirate.
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We wish the happy couples many more years of wedded bliss, and congratulate them on their golden wedding anniversary.
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The avatar customization is embarrassingly low-fi, there's no support for playing your own music from an SD card, and every so often you're mistreated to the grinning, spastic image of Bob Greene, pretending to congratulate you on your incredible accomplishments.
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I must congratulate you on your excellent exam results.
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Permit me to congratulate you on reaching another of these anniversary landmarks today.May each day be as happy as your birthday. Have a wonderful birthday!
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'Man with no name' congratulates police during court appearance AN ACCUSED fraudster who refused to tell police his name congratulated officers and shook their hand when they worked out what it was, a court heard.
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In Direct Line's latest he's convinced there must be a catch to salesman Chris Addison's straightforward pitch, and so congratulates him for non-existent chicanery.
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Actually the bowler and catcher do tend to meet up after getting a wicket and congratulate each other.
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We congratulate James on his well-deserved promotion to Chief Executive.
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The children are to be congratulated on their polished performances as are their teachers and proud parents who filled the pews to watch.
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The original personnel manager is long gone, and it's now a rather spiffy young woman who congratulates him on becoming the treasurer and then later vice president.
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He congratulated her on her appointment as Minister for Agriculture and thanked her for taking time out of her very busy schedule to come to talk to the meeting.
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Meanwhile, we Europeans congratulated ourselves on forging a deal at Kyoto that would halt the oceans' rise and cosset the ice-deprived polar bears so memorably depicted in Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth.
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He recently admitted the trio regularly congratulate themselves on having such an amicable relationship.
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Observe that man," said Duplessis, pointing towards a gentleman who had just entered; "the other day he was the popular hero -- now, in the excitement of threatened war, he is permitted to order his _bifteck_ uncongratulated, uncaressed; such is fame at Paris! here to-day and gone to-morrow.
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I congratulated her on taking part in your elocution lessons, and she said you were helping them to be well-spoken tabloid editors.
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The newly elected officers were congratulated and wished well in their work for the coming year.
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It is such a pleasure to congratulate you on your graduation.Whatever you dream for, whatever you hope to achieve may come true with your effort in the future. Remember that nothing is out of your reach if only you first believe.
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Students with exceptional attendance records have been congratulated for their dedication to school.
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Like all uke owners, he congratulated himself on his eccentric taste.
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The host club is to be congratulated on its organization of the tournament.
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I congratulated him on his good fortune and told him that my “foy boyga” was in bed on the fifth floor nursing a compound fracture.
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I heartily congratulate you upon your choice of your partner for life since l can't think of two people more suited to each other than you two.I wish you all the happiness in the world.
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In the postrace news conference, Mr. Bertarelli congratulated Mr. Ellison and BMW Oracle on its victory — "They were faster, so good on them" — but he couldn't hide his disdain for how litigious this competition was.
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And I'd especially like to congratulate their managers, who had the foresight to let this happen.
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He gave his brother a hearty slap on the back to congratulate him.
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We specifically wanted to congratulate certain players.
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Orwell narrates, "Mr. Pilkington once again congratulated the pigs on the low rations, the long working hours, and the general absence of pampering which he had observed on Animal Farm.
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He congratulated her on finding herself an undemanding retirement job.
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She told me to congratulate you on your good taste in marrying me," Saxon laughed.
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The head linguister, who, like “Persian interpreters” to commanders in chief of India during my clay, could not speak a word of any language but his own, after clapping hands, congratulated us in the name of the great king Nekulu; he lives, it appears, in a Banza at some distance to the north or north-east, out of sight of the river, and he cannot be visited without great outlay of gunpowder and strong waters.
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The club congratulates all teams who have made the finals and wishes them all every success.
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Whilst we welcome and congratulate the Minister and his Department on the new legislation we are worried about how exactly it is going to be policed and enforced.
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It is such a pleasure to congratulate you on your graduation.Whatever you dream for, whatever you hope to achieve may come true with your effort in the future. Remember that nothing is out of your reach if only you first believe.
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Permit me to congratulate you on reaching another of these anniversary landmarks today.May each day be as happy as your birthday. Have a wonderful birthday!
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Eloy congratulated me patronizingly for ‘not giving up’ and gave me his stringer of fish.
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People rushed over to clap Jeff on the back, hug Bethany, and congratulate the both of them.
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Permit me to congratulate you on reaching another of these anniversary landmarks today.May each day be as happy as your birthday. Have a wonderful birthday!
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Not surprisingly, close friends of his called during the interview to congratulate him on the promotion.
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I congratulate all those involved; at the shipbuilder, at the Defence Procurement Agency and associated organisations.
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I remember, some ten years ago, when he was made a King's Counsel, Amos and I, upon seeing him getting off the London train, went to congratulate him.
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And when the Robin congratulated him on his singing, the Woodlark did not seem to care much for the compliment, but confided to his new acquaintance, that although he thought it right to sing and be thankful, as long as there was a bit of comfort left, he was not so happy as he seemed to be, since in reality he was always expecting to die some day of having nothing at all to eat.
Parables From Nature
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So he was one of the eighty-seven I Vologsky congratulated himself as he streaked back across the border, his mission completed.
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I maun congratulate them on their marriage last Friday.
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With nothing left for Woods to do but dally with records, it was time to congratulate Pebble Beach for an Open in which the greatest current player in the game won it.
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Permit me to congratulate you on reaching another of these anniversary landmarks today.May each day be as happy as your birthday. Have a wonderful birthday!
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The poverty-stricken widow always congratulated herself upon its conclusion, and it never occurred to her that the amount of work that Birt did in the tanyard was a disproportionately large return for the few days that the tanner's mule ploughed their little fields.
Down the Ravine
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I hasten to congratulate you on the coming of your birthday.May gladness fill your every hour with joy to light your way.
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The groups you mention: the 'heterosexual couples who are beyond child-bearing age, or physically incapable of having children, or who simply choose not to', along with the various ersatz couplers; are all to be congratulated for their decision to emulate that most crucial of human relationships.
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Here's another standard Social Security Slasher move: Members of the Peterson contingent love to congratulate themselves on the "courage" and "boldness" it takes to regurgitate and promote predigested falsehoods in return for a future filled with consultancies, commission slots, and think tank appointments.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: The Ministry of Truth: New Fronts in the War on Social Security
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Peter congratulated him before asking which unfortunate soul had been dropped to make way for his young brother.
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We secretly congratulate ourselves on our rapier wit and acid tongues as assorted revellers attempt to jump the queue.
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This particular article is for that breed of people who congratulate themselves that they live by an undefined, unstated code of ethics.
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I heartily congratulate you upon your choice of your partner for life since l can't think of two people more suited to each other than you two.I wish you all the happiness in the world.
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I congratulated her on taking part in your elocution lessons, and she said you were helping them to be well-spoken tabloid editors.
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Snowbird Group , Inc. ( USA ) Warmly Congratulates the Grand Opening of 2001 Shanghai international Apparel Culture Festival!
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Tim stops by to congratulate Gretchen on her win and get an update on her jumpsuit, which is not yet finished, but he's not worried and neither is anyone else because Gretchen's the front runner and everyone knows it (although April snarks a bit that Gretchen "is not creative.")
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Allow me to congratulate you on your birthday and may you enjoy good health and long life.
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We can congratulate our teammate without ever grabbing her ass.
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I therefore wish to congratulate this brave man publicly for standing up for what he believed in.
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On behalf of the Ministry of Commerce, I would like to congratulate on the opening of the Fair, and extend my warm welcome and sincere thanks to all the friends from home and abroad.
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While Gerry was to be congratulated for his thoroughness in preparation, it was perhaps unfortunate that Chic was handed the responsibility of ensuring safe passage for our runners.
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I congratulate the new President and his new cabinet.
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May I congratulate those jobsworths at Postwatch for saving their own skins by doing nothing.
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He took little Anne Neville, condoled with her on the death of her father and the absence of her mother, congratulated her on her escape from her nightmare marriage to the little monster, Prince Edward of Lancaster, and thought to keep her under his protection, housed with his wife, her sister, and hold her fortune in his sticky hands.
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Nevertheless, Sangfroid took the answer in stride; he did not even congratulate Rosenberg.
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Should I be congratulated for being a self-indulgent hedonist?
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I think we should congratulate ourselves for finding a way around the lack of human contact involved in being a dual-income, time-poor household.
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Dundes is to be congratulated on his choice of essayists and on his clear exposition of their key ideas placed in an illuminating historical and autobiographical context.
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Though Jackson was the first to congratulate the Olympic champion, the disappointment was written all over his face.
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I congratulate you on the seventeenth anniversary of our dear Marie.
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We can congratulate our teammate without ever grabbing her ass.
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Allow me to congratulate you with all my best wishes upon your having reached your sixtieth birthday.May you live a long,healthy and joyful life.
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It was his first domestic reverse as Celtic manager, and a painful one, but he was calm and magnanimous as he congratulated Rangers that afternoon.
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I congratulate all those MPs who have had the courage of their convictions in signing up to this early day motion.
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May I take this opportunity to congratulate Ruth on her promotion.
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He was due to be congratulated by Lady Thatcher after receiving a People of the Year award.
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Mr. Higgins My right hon. Friend is to be congratulated on the dramatic reduction in the inflation rate.
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When swimmers climb out I congratulate them on being baptized into the Universal Life Church and hand them their commemorative certificates.
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We admire and congratulate Ireland for being a leader in public health.
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After being narrowly beaten in the first race, the second day he was the first to congratulate his conqueror in the moment of victory.
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President Özal called Kazakh President Nazarbayev an hour after its declaration of independence and congratulated him.
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And so it begins: Making bankruptcy sound like a fun thing to do on a slow spring afternoon, Barack Obama today "congratulated" Chrysler on the "opportunity" of Chapter 11 and if I were GM, I wouldn't ...
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His Parliamentary opponents delightedly congratulated each other on their unprecedented exhibition of constitutional muscle.
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One old gentleman, something of a beau as well as a successful lawyer, congratulated Vickers on his "tuneful" music.
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If you congratulate a subordinate for completing a task on schedule, you may generate a feeling of pride and accomplishment.
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Permit me to congratulate you on your graduation!I hope the future will bring you further success and a whole world of happiness.
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Our Prime Minister must be congratulated for not making the event a political outing.
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Conway is to be congratulated in his appointment as Rector Designate of Scotus College.
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Permit me to congratulate you on your graduation!I hope the future will bring you further success and a whole world of happiness.
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The authors are to be congratulated on this scholarly study, which must have been a labour of love.
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He liked also being seen and being congratulated on growing up such a fine looking and fortunate young fellow, for he was not the youth to hide his light under a bushel.
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Brian is to be congratulated on his courageous effort for such a worthy cause.
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And most of all, I congratulate President Clinton, who has given new meaning to the term shuttle diplomacy.
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We congratulated them on the successful completion of the project.
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He congratulated the team and management on their successes and wished them all the best for the coming season.
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John Redwood congratulated the BBC journalist for his courage in speaking before such a hostile audience.
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She congratulated him on the birth of his son.
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I remember some ten years ago when he was made a King's Counsel, Amos and I, seeing him get off the London train, went to congratulate him.
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I really must congratulate the organisers for a well run and enjoyable event.
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And I, for one, and for still other reasons, congratulate myself upon the vastitude of my good fortune.
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Allow me to congratulate you on the arrival of the New Year and to extend to you all my best wishes for your perfect health and lasting prosperity.
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But the title notwithstanding, the main purpose of the event appeared to be for the sponsoring organizations to congratulate themselves on their ostensible championing of Ramadan's free speech rights in the face of his "ideological exclusion" from the United States by the Bush administration.
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Of course nepotism is a wonderful thing, and James is to be congratulated for making the most of this happy accident of birth.
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We congratulated her upon her attainment to so great an age.
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Tony Hargreaves, presiding, congratulated Simms on a glowing report by the probation service.
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Cllr Dalton was congratulated by his fellow members on the council who were also quick to commiserate with Cllr Scully for the manner in which he lost out.
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Permit me to congratulate you on your graduation!I hope the future will bring you further success and a whole world of happiness.
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Chomping on an unlit cigar and wearing wrap-around shades, he strode through the narrow alleys and congratulated his troops.
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As we shovel the matter into bags the phone rings, it's a PR from London who has just read about our efforts and effusively congratulates me on "living the dream".
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Rather than simply congratulate Barack Obama on such a historic night, she again trotted out the meaningless claim that she had more votes.
Obama calls win 'very humbling'
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The audience converged on the actors to congratulate them upon the finer points of their performances.
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As I land after the first sortie of the day a young aircraftsman springs onto the wing of my aircraft with wild gesticulations and congratulates me on the award of the Diamonds.
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The host club is to be congratulated on its organization of the tournament.
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Thomson accepts, however, that the British are still somewhat squeamish about the sight of the very rich being congratulated about doing good.
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'In fact,' he continued, 'I'd like to congratulate you.'
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We congratulate Mr. Hay on this well deserved honour.Sentence dictionary
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In addition, the book is to be congratulated for directing our attention to variation that does not involve diglossia and Classical Arabic in Arabic speech communities.
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We congratulated her upon her attainment to so great an age.
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We congratulate James on his well-deserved promotion to Chief Executive.
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In March 1842, Mr Clerk of the Ludhiana political agency had led a diplomatic mission to Amritsar to condole with Maharaja Sher Singh on the death of his predecessor and congratulate him upon his accession.
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When I heard that McCain congratulated HRC, I LOL.
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Allow me to congratulate you with all my best wishes upon your having reached your sixtieth birthday.May you live a long,healthy and joyful life.
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Every man wanted to shake Anson's hand to congratulate him, to tell him how proud they were.
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Cussy, congratulated Soyer at once on the work's culinary and literary merits: "Chez vous, monsieur," he wrote, "le cuisinier rempli de goût et d'une charmante élégance, étincelle dans l'écrivain" (Morris 46).
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We sincerely congratulate you on a successful opening of the 11th Beijing Essen Welding and Cutting Fair as representative of Korea Welding Industry Cooperative (KWIC).
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From us in the newsroom we congratulate you and wish you well in retirement.
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Allow me to congratulate you on your birthday and may you enjoy good health and long life.
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All their families and friends congratulate the happy couple and wish them all the very best for the future.
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In particular, I must congratulate you on your pre-election editorial.
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I congratulate Chancellor Schroeder on initiating this stability pact as a device for the long-term redevelopment of Kosovo and all of Southeastern Europe.
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West Somerset Railway should be congratulated on their new special coach for disabled passengers.
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We sincerely congratulate you on a successful opening of the 11th Beijing Essen Welding and Cutting Fair as representative of Korea Welding Industry Cooperative (KWIC).
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Slumped on cushions, semicomatose after their evening meal, they congratulate themselves on managing to escape the middle-class ritual.
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She congratulated him with gentle irony.
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For the sheer ambition and audacity of this venture, he deserves to be congratulated.
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They congratulated him on his appointment as chairman.
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Permit me to congratulate you on your graduation!I hope the future will bring you further success and a whole world of happiness.
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If you congratulate a subordinate for completing a task on schedule, you may generate a feeling of pride and accomplishment.
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The more particular criticism seems to be that the referentiality is something that panders to the intelligence of the audience, that falsely congratulates them on being so well-informed.
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Earlsfont might be offered condolences while the lady could express her strong contentment, inasmuch as he deplored the state of affairs in the sister island, and she was glad of a crisis concluding a term of suspense thus the foreign-born baby was denounced and welcomed, the circumstances lamented and the mother congratulated, in a breath, all under cover of the happiest misunderstanding, as effective as the cabalism of Prospero's wand among the Neapolitan mariners, by the skilful Irish development on a grand scale of the rhetorical figure anastrophe, or a turning about and about.
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The guests mingled around, listening to the ever present background music, meandering towards us, the happily engaged couple, to congratulate us.
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I also congratulate the mover and the seconder of this debate on their speeches and, in advance, congratulate all other speakers who will make their maiden speeches in the course of this debate.
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Tony Hargreaves, presiding, congratulated Simms on a glowing report by the probation service.
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He also recognized me, congratulated my brother and showered his blessing upon me.
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Jefferson had congratulated his fellow - citizens on possessing a chosen country.
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It is such a pleasure to congratulate you on your graduation.Whatever you dream for, whatever you hope to achieve may come true with your effort in the future. Remember that nothing is out of your reach if only you first believe.
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You really should congratulate yourself on your appearance.
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Like the Laodiceans, we may even congratulate ourselves on having ‘need of nothing’ - not knowing that spiritually speaking we are ‘wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked’.
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Permit me to congratulate you on your graduation!I hope the future will bring you further success and a whole world of happiness.
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No doubt his constituents are proud of his achievement and congratulate him on his advancement.
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It is such a pleasure to congratulate you on your graduation.Whatever you dream for, whatever you hope to achieve may come true with your effort in the future. Remember that nothing is out of your reach if only you first believe.
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Permit me to congratulate you on reaching another of these anniversary landmarks today.May each day be as happy as your birthday. Have a wonderful birthday!
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Yes, I am very pleased to congratulate my good friend Matt Wedel – whom you may or may not know better as Dr Vector, or as ‘that pneumaticity guy’ (shown here posing with an enormous bone*) – for winning the 2006 International Award on Paleontology.
Matt Wedel: officially, a bastard
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Ambassador Liu congratulated Baroness Warsi on her being a member of the British Cabinet as the first Muslim woman.
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In his speech last night, not only did Edwards * not* congratulate O (which was seriously unprofessional), but he kept banging on the fact that he has "backbone" -- a not very subtle hint that the "lover" O doesn't have the inner fire/willingness to fight.
Edwards' New Strategy Against Obama: Who Can Best Deliver Change, A Lover Or A Fighter?
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‘I texted him when I had finished and he rang me to congratulate me,’ Tom said.
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She congratulated him on his 40 years in the world of art and on his recent award of a staff of eldership and chief's title in the Orisha community.
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Permit me to congratulate you on reaching another of these anniversary landmarks today.May each day be as happy as your birthday. Have a wonderful birthday!
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In those days, more than 30 comrades of our had been assassinated, that is to say, out of those who landed; and then came the killing of December, during that tragic night in the zone of Holguin, when they killed, I think, 20; and so 26 citizens had been killed and "it pleased the periodical to congratulate the president and express its hope for harmonious coexistence.
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We congratulate James on his well-deserved promotion to Chief Executive.
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I am trying to figure out if lions are "congratulated" in cake #5.
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The players and management must be congratulated for this amazing achievement.
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They congratulate you on the streets after a victory and commiserate with you, or ask you what happened when you lose.
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Allow me to congratulate you on the arrival of the New Year and to extend to you all my best wishes for your perfect health and lasting prosperity.
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The avatar customization is embarrassingly low-fi, there's no support for playing your own music from an SD card, and every so often you're mistreated to the grinning, spastic image of Bob Greene, pretending to congratulate you on your incredible accomplishments.
Pondering An Effort At Exercise Software
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• I am sure we can all congratulate Nick Boles, the Tory MP for Grantham and Stamford and parliamentary bag-carrier to schools minister Nick Gibb, for celebrating his civil partnership with Shay Meshulam with a knees-up on Ibiza this weekend.
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St. Alphonsus was so scrupulous about truth that when, in 1776, the regalist, Mgr. Filingeri, was made Archbishop of Naples, the Saint would not write to congratulate the new primate, even at the risk of making another powerful enemy for his persecuted Congregation, because he thought he could not honestly say he "was glad to hear of the appointment.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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I must confess I drew a freer breath when the bridge was crossed, and D — congratulated us on our safe arrival in Douro.
Roughing It in the Bush
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The author is to be congratulated that the book is evidently flying out of the bookshops in the shopping malls.
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Mr. Greenway I congratulate my right hon. Friend on his formidable and invaluable contribution to the outcome of the Maastricht negotiations.
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In general terms, in the document the WTO congratulates Beijing on its performance, acknowledging that China's policy is one of "gradualism" motivated by the need for maintaining economic and social stability.
China's Slow Road To Domestic Strength