The phrase "are congratulated on" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when expressing that someone is receiving congratulations for an achievement or milestone.
Example: "The students are congratulated on their outstanding performance in the competition."
Alternatives: "are praised for" or "receive accolades for".
Try being in an actual war!" are congratulated on a category mistake so fatuous that even the toy lions are too bright to make it.
That same evening, after having neatly knocked off their target, the two hit men meet with the rest of their mob family and are congratulated on "a beautiful ride". The setting for this is a place called the King's Roost, where each arriving mobster gives a pat on the cheek - a hard pat on the cheek - to a doorman who wears a full suit of armor.
If you are congratulated on a raise or promotion, your response requires only two words: Thank you! Be aware of your body language in social interactions.
For that matter, a white American traveling as a tourist is likely to be fawned over as an Asian American who "returns" to an ancestral "homeland" is not, in the sense that if the former is able to exchange pleasantries they are congratulated on their fluency and cultural sensitivity while the latter is chastised for what is interpreted as cultural estrangement.
Commonly today the HIV-negative mothers are congratulated on their results, but we do not provide advise on how to remain HIV-negative.
Employing functional measures of HR pathway deficiency rather than relying on documented changes in specific genes should capture more patients who might benefit from DNA-damaging therapies, and Vollebergh and colleagues should be congratulated on developing one such assay.
They are to be congratulated on conducting a large, definitive outcomes trial, and one that focused on what happened to patients not just their lab tests.
"Coles is to be congratulated on having brought the whole breadth of statistical modeling extremes within one volume of about 200 pages.
