Sentence examples for had elated from inspiring English sources

This week's testimony of General Petraeus and the American ambassador in Iraq, Ryan C. Crocker, had elated White House officials, who by midweek said they felt they would easily avoid any significant defections by Republican lawmakers and thus face no real legislative constraints in how the administration conducts the war.

Little was changed on Ben Hawkins' side except for the addition of the cootch (striptease) Dreifuss family; a Carnivàle consultant had elated the producers by calling attention to his research about families managing cootch shows in the 1930s.

Little was changed on Ben Hawkins' side except for the addition of the cootch (striptease) family; a Carnivàle consultant had elated the producers by calling attention to his research about families managing cootch shows in the 1930s.

The project's success so far has elated Odyssey about the possibilities for other shipwrecks.

A new government proposal to scrap restrictions on wearing the Islamic headscarf in universities has elated pious Kurds as much as it has horrified Turkish secularists.

This situation has elated the Democratic Party, whose likely nominee, Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, is emerging from a normally bruising process with few scrapes and scratches.

The action by New York has elated sepsis researchers and experts, including members of a national panel who this month formally recommended that the federal government adopt standards similar to what the state is planning.

The show is a fiesta of painterly abilities that would have elated Hans Hofmann, who was the obsessive pedagogue of "push-pull" and other craft mysteries for generations of New York painting students.

The abrupt decision by John A. Boehner to step down as speaker of the House and resign his seat in Congress has elated the bitter-ender conservatives who have made his life miserable for virtually his entire tenure.

Months back, I would have been elated to have had the chance to vote for a woman candidate; now, were she the Democratic Party's nominee, I would still vote for her without qualms, but with less enthusiasm.

But despite all the progress, despite the fact that most US fans would have been elated if they had been told before the tournament that they would have four points going into their final game, the day after is full of what-might-have-beens.