He was unveiling his bank's audacious, startling and hostile bid for two rivals that had already agreed to merge, and boasted of creating a French "champion for Europe".
When he was forced to quit at last, the economy was in a tailspin and the stability he had boasted of creating proved an illusion.So it seems all wrong that after Suharto's death this week, Indonesia declared seven days of national mourning.
If the $600 million in public subsidy for the Jets stadium was put where it is needed -- in our neighborhoods -- not only would our children study in world-class environments but our city could also boast of creating a new concept in education.
With underfunded children's services in particular being branded a "silent catastrophe", the Conservative Party has boasted of creating "parity of esteem" between physical and mental health.
AEBN's engineers worked hard to build a machine that functioned so effectively that it would make the wearer feel as if they were penetrating "the mouth, vagina, or anus of a real human," and the company frequently boasted of creating "the most lifelike simulation ever".
He boasted of having "created" a million jobs in Texas in the last decade, leading to a ridiculous quarrel with two former governors, Mitt Romney of Massachusetts and Jon Huntsman Jr. of Utah, over who had a better record of job creation.
He boasted of having created jobs upstate, and trumpeted the federal stimulus package in a contest that took shape, and drew national attention, as a referendum on the Obama administration's economic recovery efforts.
It is an irony of fate that Silvio Berlusconi, who always boasted of having created a business empire from nothing, of having embodied the American dream of the self-made man, and who always considered himself a champion when it came to numbers and money, should have been defeated in just the place where he always said he was in his element – in the market.
For his part, Mahaffy boasted of having created Wilde; later, he named him "the only blot on my tutorship".
