Sentence examples for congratulated ourselves for having from inspiring English sources

But having come from a place where there wasn't even a main road, we congratulated ourselves for having hopped to the right spot.

We congratulate ourselves for having stopped hunting them (well, most of them).

Far easier to add three minority representatives to the board of directors, or 10 minority faculty members to the roster of an Ivy League college, and then congratulate ourselves for having fought the good fight by slightly altering some statistics.

Whenever my wife, Lisa, and I were not congratulating ourselves for having chosen our little 84-passenger ship for a journey through Alaska's Inside Passage last August, somebody else was doing it for us: the crew, our fellow passengers, even local residents at the ports of call.

When the anticipated 'scary thing' happens, we congratulate ourselves for having anticipated it, the tension momentarily broken before the repercussions escalate it again.

Even as we have congratulated ourselves for becoming more "benevolent and supportive" of the mentally ill, we have steadily backed away from the sufferers themselves.

"We have started to congratulate ourselves for keeping our phones in our pockets and fetishizing the offline as something more real to be nostalgic for," he writes.

Ghaith congratulated himself for having made it this far.

I inwardly congratulated myself for having done just that.

In her concession speech, Angle congratulated herself for having "inspired once more," which was certainly one way of putting it.

Mr. Gandhi's party, for its part, has congratulated itself for having insulated India somewhat from the impact of the worldwide recession.