Sentence examples for congratulation that from inspiring English sources

Beijing also urged governments not to issue the statements of support and congratulation that are customary for Nobel laureates, they said.

One of the first calls of congratulation that Thomas Bach took on becoming president was from Vladimir Putin.

Franklin Pierce, 1855: It is matter of congratulation that the Republic is tranquilly advancing in a career of prosperity and peace.

It was a grin that struck me as half wicked amusement at my safety-first route to the lineup, half congratulation that I was out there at all.

One of the letters of congratulation that Washington received after the Atlanta speech came from a young professor named W. E. B. Du Bois, who commended him for "a word fitly spoken".

However, it is worth noting the words of John Stuart Mill: "I do not know why it should be a matter of congratulation that persons who are already richer than anyone needs to be should have doubled their means of consuming things which give little or no pleasure except as representatives of wealth.

And if the whole package reeks a little of self-congratulation, that doesn't mean the old mule hasn't got something to congratulate himself over.

What we have here is an orgy of self-congratulation that is both awkward and touching.

The cloying rah-rah self-congratulation that is usually affixed to this event is kept to a minimum (Holden).

His campaign capitalized on the new mood of national pride and self-congratulation that had reached a peak in the Los Angeles Olympic Games.

Amid the collective self-congratulation that surrounded the election, separate police shootings of unarmed black men in New Orleans, Texas, and Oakland during the same month as Obama's Inauguration were scarcely noticed.