Pushkin Children's Books are to be congratulated in making it available to an English audience.
If there is an element of nostalgia to Train Songs, its editors can be congratulated, in the words of Myles na gCopaleen, on their "succès de steam".
The unfashionable and sometimes taciturn Pim Verbeek was wrongly condemned for speaking with honesty, but Postecoglou's frankness should be congratulated in an era of sporting clichés.
"The Muslims of Bombay deserve to be congratulated in taking this important decision," Raashid Alvi, a Muslim member of India's Parliament from the Congress Party, said to me.
The Government, and George Osborne in particular, must therefore be congratulated in recognising the immense potential of this British discovery (albeit by two émigré Russians) by sanctioning a £61m National Graphene Institute on the Manchester University campus.
The stories – pretending to be cockney in the back of a London cab; being congratulated in a restaurant on his pronunciation of the word "bruschetta" – are not constructed or delivered to be much more than likable barroom banter.
While many black New Orleanians were treated as criminals by their host communities, they are now being congratulated in some quarter for leaving behind supposedly dysfunctional communities and seeking their own version of the American dream elsewhere.
She's had "hundreds of extremely nice emails," she says, and has been congratulated in the street – but she knows that there were also those who said, "Oh, it's Clare Short mouthing off again.
Mr. Miranda was congratulated in song by mentors and peers: Cheo Feliciano, José Alberto (El Canario), Tito Nieves and Andy Montañez, each in strong voice, flinging songs and improvisations above the drive of the Spanish Harlem Orchestra, the big band devoted to salsa repertory.
Harrer omitted to mention that as a young man in Austria he had joined the Nazi party, and, with his fellow climbers, had been congratulated in person by Hitler after making the first successful ascent of the north face of the Eiger.
