"The star-studded events this weekend in New York must be just the start of determined effort in every country – not the point at which we can congratulate ourselves and feel our work is done.
Touring Puth's orphanage was a decidedly less provocative experience, one more tailored to the feel-good part of adoption in which we might congratulate ourselves for giving a child a better life without the burden of feeling guilty about more needy children being left behind.
That "we" are the beneficiaries of the sufferings of others a recognition of the reconstitution on a global scale of relationships familiar here only two generations ago, upon the dismantling of which we could not sufficiently congratulate ourselves.
But it is Guatemala that has just introduced a peace process on which we again want to congratulate the negotiating partners.
The rigor and repression on display here are hardly the quaint artifacts of a bygone social order, which we in the audience can congratulate ourselves on having left behind.
Despite Union Rags's stirring rally in Saturday's Belmont (for which I congratulate him and his connections heartily), I missed the hoopla and anticipation of seeing I'll Have Another take a crack at the Triple Crown.
For this innovative work, Mrs. Kenyatta was voted by the United Nations (UN) in Kenya as the UN person of the year in 2014, a well-deserved recognition for which I congratulate her.
Say you let a driver in your lane, an act of random politeness for which you congratulate yourself, and your act is not acknowledged -- no nod, no wave, and suddenly this lack of superficial politesse means you are being taken advantage of even though no one asked you to let the car and driver in.
As we said previously, in a resolution during December, the draft of the Treaty as revised by the Irish presidency - which I congratulate - has the great merit of providing a progress report on the IGC, which features a total deadlock in the field of institutional reforms and a complete absence of any will to move forward on the part of certain governments.
"We have an intercept from this morning in which he congratulated his people for carrying out this act," Brig.
