Sentence examples for crowing from inspiring English sources

This is the key question now facing Alasdair McDonnell and his embattled troops as they seek to carve out a survival strategy over the next few months: to be inside the tent or out; to offer the electorate something different other than crowing about the party's past record of promoting non-violent nationalism and historic compromise with unionism.

They'll show another strong rise and provoke more crowing from the coalition.

Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF, whose party symbol is a black cockerel, is crowing loud and hard.

CONSERVATIVES can hardly be blamed for crowing over Ed Miliband's latest difficulties.

Is it time for bosses to worry?Since late July the Chinese media have been crowing over a grudging decision by Wal-Mart, one of the most prominent foreign firms in China, to allow members of its 31,000-strong Chinese workforce to form trade unions.

He was crowing about the fact that, on June 28th, the upper chamber had at last passed an energy bill.Mr Frist is certainly right about the need for fresh thinking on energy.

That might produce a way in which Lithuania can back down gracefully without feeling humiliated, and in which Poland can get what it wants without crowing about it.Update: I have just looked up the court case that has been lodged at the ECJ on this issue.

On the morning of the election Mr Davis's campaign sent out a memo crowing that he was "poised for victory".

But the Republican upset in the Massachusetts senatorial race has now deprived Democrats of the 60 votes required for safe passage in the Senate.Republicans are crowing that this is the death of Obamacare.

Nevertheless Democrats are crowing, and Barack Obama has postponed a trip to Asia to be present for the vote, the scene is set for drama.The CBO said that it had not had time to compare fully the reconciliation proposal to earlier versions.

IN RESPONSE to my noting that the number of Americans killed in Iraq has dropped sharply so far this month, commenter King of the Drones (nice name) writes[L]ast July (2006) we went from 66 deaths in June, to 43 deaths in July (the Bush league was crowing then too) only to go back to 66 deaths in August.