Congratulated Sentence Examples

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  • He too congratulated the old man.

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  • They clapped in unison and congratulated her.

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  • Roper afterwards congratulated his father-in-law on the distinguished honour which had been shown him.

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  • They congratulated themselves on a job well done.

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  • I congratulated him on Mack's arrival...

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  • Corps for disobedience, the king thanked Manteuffel warmly for the part he had played, and then turned to the young brigadier who had disobeyed orders and congratulated him on having twice distinguished himself in the first fortnight of the war.

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  • A local preacher, who is to be congratulated for preaching on trinity Sunday, told me how he explained the Trinity.

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  • I congratulated them both on a great job and terminated the call.

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  • Dean thanked Mrs. W., congratulated the woman on her Vegas winnings, and said he'd pass on the message to Fred.

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  • The Council congratulated Cllr Taylor on the satisfactory outcome to the process.

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  • In great state the tribune moved through the streets of Rome, being received at St Peter's with the hymn Veni Creator Spiritus, while in a letter the poet Petrarch urged him to continue his great and noble work, and congratulated him on his past achievements, calling him the new Camillus, Brutus and Romulus.

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  • He particularly congratulated himself on having discovered the " philosophical argument " against transubstantiation, " that the text of Scripture which seems to inculcate the real presence is attested only by a single sense - our sight, while the real presence itself is disproved by three of our senses - the sight, the touch, and the taste."

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  • On the contrary, there were many who prematurely congratulated themselves on the fact that Sweden had now no disturbing genius, but an economical, God-fearing, commonplace monarch to deal with.

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  • Germany at the time of the Raid was prepared to intervene, and on the 3rd of January 1896 the German Emperor, by telegram, congratulated Kruger that " without appealing to the help of friendly powers " the Boers had overcome Jameson.

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  • An attitude so indecent threatened to defeat the very objects of the reactionary powers, and Gentz congratulated the congress that these sorry protests would be buried in the archives, offering at the same time to write for the king a dignified letter in which he should express his reluctance at having to violate his oaths in the face of irresistible force !

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  • Christmas double as Uppies take men's ba ' Clutching his prize, Uppie Garry Cooper is congratulated after winning the ba ' .

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  • Out of 500 nominations in the environment category alone, Samuel's work clearly impressed judges who personally congratulated him for his outstanding contribution.

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  • Derek Fraser is to be congratulated on a tremendous achievement and for the guts to tackle a piece which could have gone seriously pear-shaped.

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  • The television network used the public attention of the contest on among other thing billboards where the network congratulated the winners.

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  • He greeted the treaty of San Stefano (3rd March 1878) with undisguised relief, and by the mouth of the king, congratulated Italy (7th March 1878) on having maintained with the powers friendly and cordial relations free from suspicious precautions, and upon having secured for herself that most precious of alliances, the alliance of the future a phrase of which the empty rhetoric was to be bitterly demonstrated by the Berlin Congress and the French occupation of Tunisia.

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  • The government might well be congratulated on having through artificial means ensured in that year of widespread drought and famine the cultivation of 27,326 sq.

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  • Through the fortunate discovery of cuneiform tablets deposited by his successor in the archives at Tell el-Amarna, we can see how the rulers of the great kingdoms beyond the river, Mitanni, Assyria and even Babylonia, corresponded with Amenophis, gave their daughters to him in marriage, and congratulated themselves on having his friendship. The king of Cyprus too courted him; while within the empire the descendants of the Syrian dynasts conquered by his father, having been educated in Egypt, ruled their paternal possessions as the abject slaves of Pharaoh.

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  • Russia, Austria-Hungary and Montenegro were the only Powers which congratulated King Peter on his accession, and in December 1903 all the Powers temporarily withdrew their representatives from Belgrade, as a protest against the attitude of the Servian government towards the regicides.

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  • I only congratulated them, said Zherkov.

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  • The Minister of War came up and congratulated him on the Maria Theresa Order of the third grade, which the Emperor was conferring on him.

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  • Russian and French officers embraced him, congratulated him, and pressed his hands.

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  • A local preacher, who is to be congratulated for preaching on Trinity Sunday, told me how he explained the Trinity.

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  • Last month it congratulated itself on observing no activity among Global Warming scaremongers during the big freeze, thereby grossly underestimating human ingenuity.

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  • Everyone we passed in the park either congratulated us or told Andie how beautiful she looked.

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  • We walked past a group who congratulated us on our marriage and Andie asked if she could join in the demonstration because, "I just got married and I can't stand George W."

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  • I congratulated him on the great work he'd done and he again thanked me for getting him together with Daniel Brennan.

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  • To make matters worse, half of Bird Song's guests who passed by congratulated him on the debate, a sure sign they hadn't been there.

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  • He then sat on the sofa, put his feet up on the overstuffed ottoman and once again congratulated himself on his prowess.

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  • He looked at them as if to be congratulated.

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  • In 1349, at the Landsting of Ringsted, Valdemar proudly rendered an account of his stewardship to the Estates of Zealand, and the bishop of Roskilde congratulated him on having so miraculously delivered his people from foreign thraldom.

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  • When the last-named joined the Church of Rome he was warmly congratulated by Dellinger on the step he had taken.

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  • His settlement of the railway dispute in 1906 was universally applauded; and the bills he introduced and passed for reorganizing the port of London, dealing with Merchant Shipping, and enforcing the working in England of patents granted there, and so increasing the employment of British labour, were greeted with satisfaction by the tariff-reformers, who congratulated themselves that a Radical free-trader should thus throw over the policy of laisser faire.

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  • He was knighted on the 11th of October 1551, on the eve of Somerset's second fall, and was congratulated on his success in escaping his benefactor's fate.

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  • As an Opposition leader he also congratulated the Speaker upon his reelection.

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  • The German Club, e.g., congratulated Bismarck on his measures against the Poles; the German Austrians refused to take cognizance of events outside Austria with which they had nothing to do.

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  • He bore Wolsey no ill-will, and warmly congratulated him two years later when warlike adventures were abandoned at the peace of London.

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  • In 1820 he congratulated the new South American republics on having abolished slavery, but the same year the threats of the Southern states to destroy the Union led him to advocate the "Missouri Compromise," which, while keeping slavery out of all the rest of the territory acquired by the "Louisiana Purchase" north of Missouri's southern boundary line, permitted it in that state.

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  • Two persons were killed, but the shah was unhurt, and the Majlis formally congratulated him on his escape.

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  • The talk show host congratulated Schreiber on his impending bundle of joy, to which he responded, "Yes, I'm going to be a dad.

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