More practical reasons suggest themselves for the success of Chilean wine: the central valleys boast rich alluvial soil, and the climate found between 28 and 38 degrees of latitude is perfect for the vines.
Specifically, fear of media tycoons who used to boast that some of their newspapers had "won" elections and had left the prime ministerial ambitions of party leaders in ruins.
A young British company called Darktrace, whose technology was spawned in the classrooms and bedrooms of Cambridge University, can now boast a covey of former spies among their executive ranks.
During the boom years in Ireland when you used to have to pay for the privilege to enter some Dublin pubs even before forking out more than ¤5 at the bar for a pint of beer, the nation's taxi drivers had a favourite, repetitive boast.
He is planning Britain's first "astrovillage", one that would house the largest public observatory in the world and boast a 100-seat auditorium, a 100-seat planetarium, a one-metre aperture telescope, radiomagnetic and solar telescopes.
It's true: the grimy streets are slightly less grimy and the crime rate – they boast – is no worse than any other French city.
If you want a quick lesson in what he means, think back to New Labour: Tony Blair's absurd claim that Britain could somehow be "a young country", a long-forgotten book co-authored by Peter Mandelson (perhaps now festering in a Mancunian dumpster?), with a passage headed "Can Britain escape from its past?" – and the ahistorical boast to end all ahistorical boasts: "No more boom and bust".
Victorian Manchester would boast twice the riches of London with twice the ostentation.
In a country where every football supporter has an English team, FH boast fancy dan foreigners in former Manchester United youth team player Sam Hewson and former Rangers and Scotland Under-21 international Steven Lennon.
Fans at the match had something truly special to boast about.
Antigua used to boast 174 of them, and for 200 years sugar remained the dominant industry.
