Mr Banerjee boasts of bringing a "human touch" to his work.
While Mr. Spratt boasts of bringing in jobs, the unemployment rate across the district is higher than the state and national averages.
Thomas E. Mann, a Congressional scholar at the Brookings Institution, said the data underlined the fact that while there were "incremental successes by particular people," most boasts of bringing home the bacon amounted to pointing "with pride to benefits that would have already been going to the district".
But in his successful campaign for the governorship of Tennessee, Phil Bredesen, a Democrat who was mayor of Nashville, boasted of bringing in a curriculum that included teaching the existence of Buddhism and Hinduism to second-graders.
The government already had to significantly revise downward the number of cases that it had boasted of bringing in 2012 related to distressed homeowners – the very type of inflating of numbers that it has accused others of doing.
Without one he may end up in one of the 150 government shelters, though even there he would have to compete for space with some 10,000 homeless people.The government of president Kim Dae Jung has boasted of bringing down unemployment from nearly 8% of the workforce in early 1998 to 3.9% today.
After the nationwide strikes in Venezuela earlier this year, the government of President Hugo Chávez fired about half the work force at the state oil company and then boasted of bringing back oil production, which had dwindled to a trickle during the work stoppage.
221 210 BCE) toured his newly acquired empire, erecting stone steles on the sites of sacred mountains; in the stele inscriptions he boasted of bringing unity, peace, stability, and orderly rule (Kern 2000; Pines 2014b).
On a night with the theme of "Make America Safe Again," former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani also boasted of bringing down crime in New York City.
Her boast of bringing employment to the area – "I employ a local gardener, tree surgeon, equine vet, two chiropractors, an equine podiatrist, a holistic shearer, an ecologist" – is likely to bring more hilarity than gratitude.
From a modern perspective, passages like those can easily seem over-wrought, all grim-up-north tropes and hand-wringing despair – redolent, even, of that Monty Python routine in which Cleese, Palin et al boasted of being brought up in shoeboxes and the like.
