Sentence examples for act of congratulating from inspiring English sources

Though he credited Rafter, Agassi tainted the act of congratulating the winner by smacking a ball across the net at a lineswoman who had reported to the umpire an obscenity Agassi had addressed to himself after missing a backhand at 6-all in the fifth.

This premature act of congratulating angered the Iranian population.

Mourinho made a point of congratulating Schürrle's contribution.

Accepting the Oscar as Loca was Stevie Ryan's tacit way of acknowledging the act while also congratulating herself on having legitimately achieved a kind of alternate-reality stardom.

Say you let a driver in your lane, an act of random politeness for which you congratulate yourself, and your act is not acknowledged -- no nod, no wave, and suddenly this lack of superficial politesse means you are being taken advantage of even though no one asked you to let the car and driver in.

An act of God?

No act of God.

(See Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008).

An act of hypocrisy?

An act of desperation?

The Act of Killing.