In terms of territory, Metternich gladly relinquished claims to the old Austrian Netherlands and the various Habsburg possessions in Germany for a consolidated monarchy at the centre of Europe.
"We'll gladly pay your claim -- after you perform a death-defying escape, Houdini".
I would gladly make the claim, however, that 99% of my friends open up The New York Times in the morning and scroll the headlines.
Some doctors would gladly let the exam go, claiming that much of it has been rendered obsolete by technology and that there are better ways to spend their time with patients.
But given the raw intensity that some players unleash each week, the top prize could just as well be a million dollars -- not a $25 bar credit, which strangely enough, some recent winners claimed they would gladly trade for the third place prize: one of Pete's popular hot toasted sandwiches, preferably the goat cheese and black olives or turkey with brie.
When asked on national talk radio last weekend whether he had any plans for retirement, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, the President of Uganda for the past 28 years, claimed he would gladly leave politics, but believes his people do not want him to step down.
There are many skeptical organizations these days and if you need help debunking a claim they will likely help you gladly.
But it's generally accepted that authors never make their deadlines, and my publisher gladly gave me the 90 days grace I claimed I needed to complete the task.
Many of those elected officials who claim that AIPAC beat them (for which, AIPAC gladly accepts the credit, since it fuels the myth of their power), lost for other quite unrelated reasons.
Last August, President Obama claimed that "there is not another country on earth that would not gladly trade places with the United States of America".
