Never in my life did I think I would be congratulated by Mick Jagger for achieving anything.
An architect designing these spaces now would be congratulated for range of expression and questioned for whimsy.
When a man would report the same problem, he would be congratulated for noticing the problem and actions would be taken to fix it.
That is easy to say, perhaps, with the benefit of hindsight but, however unpopular it is, Graham Poll was probably right when he pointed out that Cakir would be congratulated by Uefa's refereeing assessors.
Ahmadinejad said he did not care that the US, Britain, France and Germany had said they would not be congratulating him.
If something of that kind were to emerge from Paris, it will not have been a total waste of time, and the delegates would be able to congratulate themselves on a real achievement rather than yet another false one.
While many donors to the University of Michigan operated radio station opt to wish a happy birthday to an individual or a happy anniversary to a couple, Lisa felt it would be appropriate to congratulate Israel on 68 years of independence.
If the question was limited to these disputes, we would be content with congratulating ourselves.
Poirot would be the first to congratulate her on her excellent choice of mentor.
After Senna took his sixth win at the 1993 race, breaking Graham Hill's record for most wins at the Monaco Grand Prix, runner-up Damon Hill commented that "If my father was around now, he would be the first to congratulate Ayrton".
