Sentence examples for congratulated and from inspiring English sources

He was congratulated and given awards for these actions.

Cowell congratulated and praised both Cook and runner-up David Archuleta, the smiley 17-year-old crooner from Murray, Utah.

Here is a village wedding in which the bride is torn between anticipation of married life and fear of losing her virginity, and in which the groom is at once heartily congratulated and admonished to plant hemp and get his wife to make cabbage soup.

She referenced the point that children are more likely to change their behaviour when their small steps are congratulated, and that if you criticise them, then they just lower their heads back below the parapet and go back to their bad old ways.

But being congratulated and wished well at a supermarket fish counter is presumably better than being ignored, because it suggests you are still a success at whatever your primary pursuit might be.

When he was congratulated and asked how he was feeling by host Michael Strahan, the boy band member awkwardly replied, "Thank you.

In a video posted to the "Late Show's" YouTube account over the weekend, Colbert broke out the rainbow flags and congratulated gays and lesbians for gaining the right to marry in all 50 states.

S Chelvan, a human rights barrister at No 5 Chambers who has a Sri Lankan Tamil background, said the gesture gained huge support from the audience and many congratulated him and his fellow campaigners.

The president summarized the discussions at the council meetings, announced the locations of the 2015 and 2016 meetings and congratulated Manyuan Long and the other organizers of the Chicago meeting.

And today Cardinal Egan visited the school here in Ulster County and congratulated parents, teachers and students for saving it.

A sympathetic Times compares the £1 million, 400-item rearrangement to the headaches of preparing seating arrangements for a large family party and congratulated curator Frances Morris and the Tate team for growing pangs overcome.