Sentence examples for as congratulatory from inspiring English sources

And the insufferable shimmering metallic music — as congratulatory as a laugh track — smudges them together.

The statement about Mr. Obama's call to President Felipe Calderón of Mexico began by describing it as congratulatory, to praise Mexico for its work in acting as host to the just-completed Cancún conference on climate change.

But while it has been welcomed by the state government as somewhere to complement Melbourne's rich array of cultural offerings, the reaction from architects and some members of the public has not been as congratulatory.

As he read aloud a breaking bulletin from the Washington Post, he began repeating one of his favorite slogans: "Ladies and gentlemen, there's our winnable war!" As congratulatory calls started rolling in, Fischer said, "I was the first one on the conservative front to raise an issue about this.

There is speculation that even governors from his own party may start to call on him to recognise its ruling.To his credit, Mr Calderón has comported himself as the polar opposite of Mr López Obrador, calling for conciliation and dialogue in a pair of acceptance speeches following the tribunal's announcement as congratulatory calls from world leaders began to pour in.

On what should've been the happiest day of my life, I feigned excitement as congratulatory messages poured in.

It's a glittery, golden vomit of red carpets and selfies and diamond encrusted Tuxedos, as self-congratulatory as the Oscars and equally oblivious to what it symbolises; a sickly, creepy celebration of wealth held amidst an on-going corruption investigation defined by greed and power and death.

The ACMD felt sufficiently embolded by this slight to mock the government's 10-year drug strategy launched in 2008, describing the highly-selective use of statistics as, "self-congratulatory and disappointing".

If all a woman had to do was her paid employment, she could be as self-congratulatory as some CEOs.

Britain's queen now sends out ten times as many congratulatory messages to centenarians as she did when she came to the throne nearly half a century ago.But although on average people in affluent countries now will live far longer than their equivalents even a century or two ago, individual lifespans will not be huge by historical standards.

When Heaney published this outstanding poem, Ted Hughes sent him an otter pelt as a congratulatory gift.