A neon orange banner sent congratulations to Isaiah Whitehead, considered the top player in New York City.
Mr. Osborne sent congratulations to Mr. Barnier before Gordon Brown, then prime minister, or Alistair Darling, then chancellor, did.
For a long time, he passed himself off as American-born: Mark Twain even sent congratulations to his "fellow Missourian" on finding Livingstone.
Although he has exchanged occasional text messages with teammates — he sent congratulations to Osi Umenyiora, Rocky Bernard and others after the Buffalo game — Kennedy has tried to stay away, not wanting to get in the way as the Giants push on.
Ehud Barak, the caretaker prime minister, sent congratulations to the army and security services, declaring that the killing sent this message to those who would attack Israel: "The long arm of the Israeli Defense Forces will reach them".
✒Chris Patten sent congratulations to those behind the first of BBC2's Shakespeare history plays, Richard II, and it has been suggested that the fortuitously apt tale of one king replacing another (handily shown in the week of final interviews) may have clinched the DG job for George Entwistle, cancelling out the BBC Vision boss's jubilee regatta nightmare.
Britain has come under fire from a senior UK-based leader of the Muslim Brotherhood – under scrutiny in a controversial government review – for sending congratulations to Egypt's new president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, who led the coup that overthrew the Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi last year.
If you do that, the app starts pulling in data and creating a list of tasks, such as telling someone "happy birthday!" and sending them a Facebook Gift, sending congratulations to your friends for good news and condolences for bad news, and merging duplicate contacts in your address book.
Chinese President Xi Jinping sent congratulations to Kim for his promotion at the party congress.
Barack Obama was one of the first world leaders to send congratulations.
