I saw all your very kind & thoughtful congratulatory tweets.
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So my inbox is full of congratulatory emails from publishers.
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Most recipients discover their win with a congratulatory phone call.
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Judging by her congratulatory note, seems like Cyborg's still down.
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Trump's congratulatory phone call did little to tame Turkey's President.
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Trump took a congratulatory call from Tsai after his Nov.
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Trump's congratulatory call with Russia's Vladimir Putin was a misfire.
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Jim Bridenstine, the NASA administrator offered his congratulatory condolences, too.
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I would be surprised if he wasn't bombastic and self-congratulatory.
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The congratulatory snap is currently the only photo on Kardashian's account.
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Meanwhile, Cuban President Raul Castro sent a congratulatory message to Trump.
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Exploited workers are sick of press releases, rhetoric & self-congratulatory announcements.
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The meeting was characterized as congratulatory and brief by Trump's team.
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I received a flood of congratulatory emails after that awkward appearance.
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"A congratulatory tweet was posted," a State Department spokeswoman told Reuters.
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A few hours later, I received a congratulatory message from Minder.
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But it never strays into being preachy or self-congratulatory, either.
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Look, it was a, you know, it was a congratulatory call.
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"The conversation I had was largely congratulatory," Trump said on Sunday.
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Until his congratulatory tweets on Thursday evening, Mr. Trump largely complied.
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She received a congratulatory phone call from then-President Barack Obama.
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They're going to make sure their reaction is appropriate and congratulatory.
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She will also send him a congratulatory message to mark his inauguration.
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Many singers also sent congratulatory video messages to Travis, including Carrie Underwood.
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The mustachioed duo are earnest and self-congratulatory, which makes them hilarious.
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Immediately, she posts a selfie with the congratulatory email in the background.
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Social media is abuzz with congratulatory messages for the Bangalore-based startup.
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Trump has yet to tweet a congratulatory message to the Red Sox.
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I send her a congratulatory tweet in a sad attempt to connect.
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He won't be receiving congratulatory phone calls from foreign leaders just yet.
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And the dearth of congratulatory news releases and Twitter posts spoke volumes.
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Backstage after the show, the Beckermans gave Mr. Scott a congratulatory hug.
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The congratulatory board included a photo from every month of his life.
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The South African government even sent him a congratulatory message on Twitter.
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Hager, 85033, also shared a congratulatory note she received from her father.
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He wore scrubs and a smile that was friendly without being congratulatory.
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And at times this book has, perhaps justifiably, a self-congratulatory ring.
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His self-examination manages to be both endearing and irksomely self-congratulatory.
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Please be my friend") or self-congratulatory ("Look at this crazy show!
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But the Academy might not want to get too congratulatory, too quickly.
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At typical rock concerts, an encore is a self-congratulatory send-off.
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Senior political figures began posting congratulatory messages to Mr. Ramaphosa on Twitter.
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But he was gentle and congratulatory when a scene came together successfully.
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She received a congratulatory call from President Trump and his daughter Ivanka.
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"I'm very happy for them," Trump wrote in a congratulatory note in 2005.
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The reasons include Los Angeles' history of boosterism and self-congratulatory image-making […].
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Triptych seems to think so, and ultimately appears cheap, forced, and self-congratulatory.
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Like all award shows, the Grammys are needlessly long, bloated, and self-congratulatory.
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In another photo, the two share a congratulatory high five at Reynolds' expense.
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It's a feminist movie, to be sure, but not a self-congratulatory one.
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That didn't stop fans from leaving congratulatory comments on Paltrow's Instagram posts, though.
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Check out what happens when Gaga goes in for a congratulatory hug ... priceless.
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I text approximately a million friends and receive a wave of congratulatory messages.
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There was a congratulatory email; maybe a few others; she doesn't really recall.
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Yes, Tom Brady is BFFs with Trump and Trump sent that congratulatory tweet.
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Trump's call with Morrison follows a congratulatory tweet from the president Friday night.
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" This positive connotation lived on into 19th-century congratulatory slang — "Bully for you!
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Online donations were rising, and his in-box was full of congratulatory notes.
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He has fielded congratulatory phone calls from President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.
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And now Messi has completed their bond by sending Curry a congratulatory jersey.
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Say what you will about the Oscars: They enjoy self-congratulatory liberal agitprop!
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Read an excerpt below: There is a self-congratulatory sense in the essay.
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Emperor Naruhito's proclamation will be followed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's congratulatory address.
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It is boringly self-congratulatory, obsequiously flattering both the audience and the filmmakers.
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When I joined Kellogg, he sent it to me with a congratulatory note.
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Nor is The Americans telling a self-congratulatory story about history and progress.
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I think it can be self congratulatory and typically a self-designated label.
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Alex (Claire Danes) and Greg (Jim Parsons) are young Brooklyn parents of the new middle class in "A Kid Like Jake": progressive, acutely involved with their child's development and a little self-congratulatory about how not self-congratulatory they are.
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Parido's ex-husband and former Shahs costar Mike Shouhed also shared a congratulatory message.
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Intelligence agencies also intercepted congratulatory messages from Russian officials expressing happiness at Trump's win.
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I did, however, get a MySpace, which was, unsurprisingly, crap and totally self-congratulatory.
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And, of course, do a self-congratulatory fist pump if yours made the list.
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They're very congratulatory and celebratory, and often become "historic" just because they're the biggest.
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R-Rated box office congratulatory posts aren't like the ones you're used to... pic.twitter.
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R-Rated box office congratulatory posts aren't like the ones you're used to… pic.twitter.
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Famous friends Lily Collins and Paloma Faith shared congratulatory messages in the comments section.
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After the win, congratulatory messages erupted across the internet and bars across the country.
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The very next day, Trump took the controversial congratulatory phone call from Taiwanese president.
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Lincicome, who scored par on the hole, quickly approached Suwannapura for a congratulatory hug.
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"It is prudent for the president-elect to take congratulatory calls," Ryan said Tuesday.
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Gerry Connolly from Virginia's 11th District shared a simple congratulatory message for the Capitals.
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South Korean President Moon Jae-in sent a congratulatory message to Yun via Twitter.
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Some Palestinians were celebrating the fires on social media, posting congratulatory messages on Facebook.
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This place is so self-congratulatory and polite it's like a fucking coral reef.
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Famous friends Lily Collins and Paloma Faith shared congratulatory messages in the comments section.
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The revamped series' high ratings earned Barr a congratulatory phone call from Trump himself.
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A congratulatory letter from Vice President Mike Pence sits atop a pile of mail.
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At the 125th Street station, swipers greeted Mr. Byer with congratulatory handshakes and hugs.
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Happy squeals and congratulatory chatter ensued, followed by a conversation in Hindi and English.
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Among all the congratulatory messages were a few thanking Johnson for sharing his accomplishment.
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He was accused at moments of appearing overly congratulatory, even as conditions remained dire.
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"I'm a Good Person" shows us her desire to wallow in congratulatory self-righteousness.
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And "You Stupid Bitch" shows us her desire to wallow in congratulatory self-loathing.
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First, Trump's congratulatory call was significantly warmer than his own State Department's comments had been.
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The elderly couple even received a commemorative coin and congratulatory card from the Queen herself!
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Donald Trump, meanwhile, has already blessed the deal with a congratulatory call to Rupert Murdoch.
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Some see Trump's appearance as a self-congratulatory victory lap for the First Step Act.
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Shonda Rhimes kicked off the congratulatory tweets, writing how proud she was of Oh's accomplishment.
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The news prompted several celebrities and fans to flood Kidman's comment section with congratulatory messages.
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Soon after Jamie Lynn welcomed Ivey, Britney shared a heartfelt congratulatory note on social media.
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Singapore's prime minister, Lee Hsien Loong, posted a congratulatory message soon after the news broke.
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Her social media became inundated with congratulatory messages before she even understood what was happening.
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Everything sparked during the end-of-game handshake—and the exchange looked anything but congratulatory.
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President Trump urged voters not to "underestimate" the conservative in a congratulatory tweet early Wednesday.
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"We were not going to be a regular self-congratulatory do-gooder organization," Kim said.
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The last two Republican presidents gave the next Republican president congratulatory telephone calls on Wednesday.
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Today's press briefing centered around President Trump's congratulatory phone call to Vladimir Putin, which Sen.
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Many conferences end up being self-congratulatory echo chambers rather than forums for new knowledge.
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She posted a congratulatory message on Twitter after the girls won the contest in Estonia.
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A week later, President-elect Trump was finally able to accept a congratulatory phone call.
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The State Department says the calls were congratulatory, but it did not participate in them.
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The announcement by Toyota and Mazda earned a congratulatory tweet from the president early Friday.
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After freezing their prices, Novartis and Pfizer have since been rewarded with congratulatory presidential tweets.
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The speech was full of the North's usual self-congratulatory, lofty proclamations and anti-Western rhetoric.
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After the race, I heard you got a congratulatory call from the prime minister Jean Chretien.
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On election night, that meant sending congratulatory texts to his friend Vice President-elect Mike Pence.
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This narrative of transformation is what strikes critics like Rios as so patronizing and self-congratulatory.
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Kylie's explanation, on the other hand, could come off to some as a tad self-congratulatory.
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ASMAN: What do you think about the president&aposs sort of congratulatory note to President Xi?
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Air force pilots were welcomed back at bases in Russia to brass bands and congratulatory speeches.
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The first photographer to arrive at the scene, he found the scientist taking congratulatory phone calls.
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Forty-four million people tuned in and 1 million viewers responded with congratulatory messages to CBS.
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Huntsman, for example, responded pleasantly to a congratulatory note from the prankster posing as Eric Trump.
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But the idea that Green Book is just for self-congratulatory white folks is too easy.
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Its President, Vladimir Putin, sent a congratulatory telegram to Rouhani, the Kremlin said on its website.
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Kelly took a congratulatory call from President Barack Obama during his trip from Kazakhstan to Houston. .
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For Halimah, Uber gave her $220 (S$300) worth of Uber credits, and a congratulatory hamper.
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Johnson will probably spend some of time this evening fielding congratulatory phone calls from world leaders.
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It's all so showy and self-congratulatory — like a wanking blues-rock guitar solo, only worse.
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Afterwards, the ship would sail to London for a congratulatory ceremony at the Royal Geographic Society.
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Sure, journalism can be a "cheap shot" when it's self-congratulatory, or voyeuristic, smug or shallow.
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A Norwegian man of Iranian descent was arrested, prompting a congratulatory Twitter post from Mr. Pompeo.
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"Get Out" is set in the Northeast, where the racial attitude veers toward self-congratulatory tolerance.
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Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Commission, sent a congratulatory letter to Mr. Sánchez.
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The last message Bryant posted to Twitter was that congratulatory message to James on Saturday night.
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Upon Tunzi's victory, Garris celebrated the new title holder with a sweet congratulatory post on Instagram.
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And he, you know, that sort of shows when people get congratulatory newspapers sent to them.
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Mr. Putin sent him a congratulatory telegram and the two spoke by telephone on Nov. 14.
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It felt like a very beautifully shot display of male-centric nonsense, and self-congratulatory ego.
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On Friday he tweeted a self-congratulatory message and tossed a quick "Thank you!" into the void.
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Trump's taking of a congratulatory phone call from Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen broke with that protocol.
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Where are the congratulatory cookies for those parents who raise their kids without a partner every day?
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Bolsonaro said the conversation with Trump lasted longer than his congratulatory phone calls with other international leaders.
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Minaj, who many felt was on track to nab the honor herself, sent Cardi a congratulatory tweet.
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He also called Rih "captivating from day one" and even tried to give her a congratulatory kiss.
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Her message veered off the congratulatory course as she made a stab at the fashion house's politics.
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At last year's confab, in Dallas, Mike Pence made headlines by giving a jarringly self-congratulatory speech.
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Putin spent his birthday taking congratulatory calls from other world leaders, and chaired a security council meeting.
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" Within seconds, Schumer's post was flooded with congratulatory notes — perhaps because Schumer wrote "got me through pregnancy.
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After landing the arrow close to the target's center, Harry received a congratulatory handshake for his efforts.
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The real marker of adulthood is doing things that seem "adult" without feeling self-congratulatory about it.
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Trump issued a congratulatory statement; but we've not seen any George W. Bush-style "Mission Accomplished" speeches.
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In the most self-congratulatory way possible, it seems that Trump has accidentally made a good point.
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Jeff Bezos is understandably all sorts of self-congratulatory in the annual shareholder letter Amazon released today.
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Flake's congratulatory message came after The Associated Press called the tight Senate race between Sinema and Rep.
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Despite the surprise, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau soon sent out a congratulatory statement, seemingly unruffled as ever.
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A congratulatory pat on the back was in order as they moved on to their next engagement.
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Women across the US who aren't pregnant have received mysterious congratulatory cards and coupons in the mail.
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Clinton's chief of staff, Cheryl D. Mills, wrote a congratulatory note to top American diplomats in Haiti.
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Maybe even a bit of a brag that goes along with the message of this congratulatory track.
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Ghaul isn't the only one suggesting that the Guardians are self-congratulatory beneficiaries in a rigged game.
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There's a pink cardboard box full of congratulatory notes from the queen, Prince Charles and world leaders.
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The president returned to the posture many revile and that his base adores: unapologetic and self-congratulatory.
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Books by politicians are almost invariably self-congratulatory and self-justifying, and we often don't review them.
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In a congratulatory statement, Abadi praised the Iraqi security forces for liberating the district "in record time".
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President Trump was enthralled by the ratings numbers and made a congratulatory call to the show's star.
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Trump's news conferences on the virus have turned into orgies of self-congratulatory backslapping and butt kissing.
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BTW ... Trump, who M.C.'s these briefings in the most self-congratulatory way possible, isn't the draw.
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Kenyan runner Kipchoge thanked Obama for the congratulatory tweet Monday, saying the former president has inspired him.
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The Black Mamba&aposs final tweet was was a congratulatory note to James for the impressive feat.
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Mike Vick, who's been praising Jackson all season, immediately made a congratulatory video for the young superstar.
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" Sunwoo: "After that first win fans put up congratulatory messages and pictures of us in Times Square.
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Simply use the congratulatory hashtag #100MBeliebers to unlock a special little sad-looking emoji of Justin's face.
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In a second post, Robertson thanked her followers for all of their congratulatory messages after their wedding.
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Afterward, Quinn receives a congratulatory email from his senior producer saying the show wants him on again.
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Following Ivy's arrival, Jessa's sister Jana Duggar shared a precious photo of her niece in a congratulatory post.
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A typical Apple promotional video has a type: Clean, dispassionate, slightly British (thanks Jony Ive) and self-congratulatory.
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But lest we get overly self-congratulatory, I offer a sobering reminder that significant gaps of inequality remain.
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Though Trump announced many of his picks on Twitter, they were all matter of fact and (self) congratulatory.
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That evening, the director of the Secret Service sent Kelly a congratulatory email with a flash of sarcasm.
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Then again, this self-congratulatory pissgate conspiracy explanation probably has nothing to do with disproving anything in particular.
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She left a congratulatory comment on Montoya's tweet and encouraged her to find her own Callie one day.
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I sent them a congratulatory note after Tatsu sent me the finished music because those guys played great.
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Many of Mayfield's football colleagues offered congratulatory messages in the comments section, including Danny Amendola and Ezekiel Elliott.
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President Trump kicked off the congratulatory speeches, saying he's "so confident" the bill will pass in the Senate.
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Don't be so quick to hand your favorite high school or college grad a congratulatory card with cash.
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Trump similarly drew heavy criticism for a self-congratulatory tweet he sent out after the Orlando nightclub shooting.
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After the CMAs crowd offered up a congratulatory round of applause, Paisley got serious — or so it seemed.
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Enclosed, besides a congratulatory note, was a routine report, compiled by the Buchenwald camp authorities and dated Feb.
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Immediately, she was flooded with congratulatory messages from fans and celebrity friends, like Ellen DeGeneres and Reese Witherspoon.
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The acting subplot, meanwhile, relies on meta-talk about vapid network TV that comes across as self-congratulatory.
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Gordon was congratulatory towards Ekeler on his big day, tweeting out words of encouragement after his stellar performance.
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The president's congratulatory remarks come as Lewandowski and Bossie promote the book, which was released on Dec. 3.
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The exercises came a week after Trump took a congratulatory phone call from Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen.
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On what should've been the happiest day of my life, I feigned excitement as congratulatory messages poured in.
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Rachel pushed this one through and is super self-congratulatory about bringing a Black bachelor to network television.
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The White House told reporters last week that Trump made a congratulatory call to Murdoch on the deal.
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Nascar issued a congratulatory statement from Petty, but his son Kyle said Petty had departed the track earlier.
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Tehachapi, California (CNN)A new engagement ring adorns her finger, and fresh congratulatory balloons float in the room.
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After sharing the exciting news, several of Talinda's followers sent congratulatory messages, including Chester's Linkin Park bandmate Shinoda.
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DANNY BROWN Hip-hop shows are notorious for filler: audience-participation routines, self-congratulatory stage patter, D.J. interludes.
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Several hours later, Farrow says he got a congratulatory text from one of the biggest names at NBC.
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She sent him a congratulatory message through Facebook and was pleasantly surprised when she quickly received a response.
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Laver soon responded with a congratulatory tweet post, noting that he would love to meet the young star.
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And then years later, when I became friends with him, he was always very, very encouraging and congratulatory.
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Just a few months after receiving a layoff notice, the same employee received a congratulatory letter about retiring.
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"All the self-congratulatory back-patting Hollywood's been doing over Wonder Woman has been so misguided," he said.
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These awards shows have become over-the-top, self-congratulatory binges of the entertainment elite celebrating each other.
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Unlike much mainstream fiction then and now, Kafka's works deflate humanism's self-congratulatory rhetoric about progress and redemption.
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I say all this without ignorance to the record of Hollywood's own self-congratulatory relationship with movies like this.
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Mongolian President Battulga Khaltmaa's call for justice was made in a congratulatory message to the 92-year-old Mahathir.
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Dang and Wall offered up congratulatory grills back in 2012 after the London Olympics, but only for gold medalists.
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After the law's passage, a lawmaker who supported it snapped a congratulatory selfie of himself, Netanyahu, and other colleagues.
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But it feels like this year it was a little less self-congratulatory and a little more self-motivated.
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Bim Adewunmi: So this is very self-congratulatory, but I just did a program on Netflix called follow this.
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But Jones said he had heard from other Senate leaders and also received a congratulatory call from President Trump.
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America's president-elect, Donald Trump, angered China by accepting a congratulatory telephone call from Taiwan's president, Tsai Ing-wen.
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Some commenters, who presented or self-identified as white, seemed self-congratulatory when talking about their views on racism.
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"All of the self-congratulatory back-patting Hollywood's been doing over Wonder Woman has been so misguided," he said.
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It seems like Kidman's real-life husband, Keith Urban, was totally on board with his wife's congratulatory move, too.
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She was going to write something congratulatory, apparently, but in the end she jotted down some marriage advice instead.
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Issa Rae and Donald Glover gave big congratulatory hugs to Westworld's Thandie Newton on her first-ever Emmys win.
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It is true that as president-elect in late 2016 he took a congratulatory telephone call from Ms Tsai.
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The Clintons even sent a congratulatory letter to Saban on his Walk of Fame star, according to Vanity Fair.
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If you are an athlete who has won a championship, Lil Wayne will probably tweet something congratulatory about you.
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In his typical style, Sanders went deep into policy and picked apart Trump's self-congratulatory speech, issue by issue.
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Unfortunately, the continuation of excessively congratulatory remarks from the Trump administration would probably discourage needed reform in the country.
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President Santos—who fielded congratulatory calls from President Obama, among others, last night—has staked his legacy on peace.
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The business mogul had met with strong criticism for responding to the Orlando shooting with a self-congratulatory tweet.
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The successful launch prompted a flood of congratulatory messages on social media as millions of Indians expressed their excitement.
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At the time, Trump cast the phone call with the then-RNC chairman as more of a "congratulatory" conversation.
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He began with an opening statement laced with the sort of wild, self-congratulatory boasts that are his trademark.
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If things get worse fast, the President may come to rue the self-congratulatory moment he created on Tuesday.
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Obama reportedly told Trudeau to address him by his first name in a congratulatory call after the election victory.
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"Baseball is more than a game to him, it is a craft," Derek Jeter said in a congratulatory statement.
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Several officials reminded Zuckerberg of his appearances before the U.S. Congress last month, but not in a congratulatory tone.
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No one wants their plaintive wails drowned out by a cacophony of premature, self-congratulatory pats on the back.
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said as much Wednesday in a congratulatory statement to Mr. Moon and Mr. Kim.
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For much of its first hour, this movie is tepid and self-congratulatory, a quick-cutting advertisement for itself.
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The marketing department shared an 11-by-17 congratulatory poster of me with associates at all of our locations.
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Mr. Trump had thrown that policy into doubt after taking a congratulatory phone call from the president of Taiwan.
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After the vote in Iraq calling on the government to expel American troops, Iranian officials reacted with congratulatory messages.
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The congratulatory (or consoling) moment after a match has, for many players, evolved into an elaborate show of affection.
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There is no excuse for this shameful behavior, though excuses are coming quickly — as are the self-congratulatory kudos.
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"The conversation I had was largely congratulatory, was largely corruption, all of the corruption taking place," Trump said Sunday.
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It's a touch self-congratulatory for sci-fi creators to imply that they're the unacknowledged designers of the world.
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But the public started clapping back before de Blasio and Cuomo could finish giving each other congratulatory high fives.
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As news of the Orlando shooting tragedy was unfolding, Trump put out a self-congratulatory tweet about his own prescience.
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Gifford couldn't be happier for her friend and predicted well-before his congratulatory text that Lauer would feel the same.
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Several diplomats told CNN that they reached out to Trump Tower to schedule congratulatory calls for their head of state.
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The Texas town is providing early participants with a pint of beer to prepare and a congratulatory beer upon completion.
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"Peele's self-congratulatory revenge humor has one particularly notable irony: It's tailored to please the liberal status quo," White added.
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Harry, along with Prince William and Princess Kate, also delivered a congratulatory message to Team GB following the Rio Games.
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But if you're like me, your congratulatory telegram may have been halted in midsentence by the thought of Mary's sister.
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On her Instagram, Leakes posted screenshots of alleged congratulatory texts she had sent Williams after the birth of her daughter.
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MariLyn, her family, and her other tenants simply become collateral damage in Seattle's blind, self-congratulatory march to social justice.
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And This Is Us fans couldn't help but express congratulatory messages to Kate and her fiancé, Toby, on social media.
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The weddings the two students staked out did not feature the congratulatory floral displays that are standard at such occasions.
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Interesting how the U.S. sells Taiwan billions of dollars of military equipment but I should not accept a congratulatory call.
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During a congratulatory call, the newly elected Mr. Zelensky brought up the need to 'drain the swamp' in his country.
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One witness, former U.S. special envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker, testified that the April 12 call was congratulatory in nature.
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Less than an hour after he accepted the trophy, Kidman expressed her pride on Instagram, writing a sweet congratulatory message.
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The complaint said he furnished the ticket in question to the lottery commission, which initially responded with a congratulatory letter.
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As president-elect, Trump broke with protocol and accepted a congratulatory phone call from the Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen.
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She is expected to receive a congratulatory phone call on Monday from U.S. President Donald Trump, NASA said on Wednesday.
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Yet where Vance's book espouses a self-congratulatory bootstraps ideology, Louis offers damning realism in the service of structural critique.
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Sanchez's success earned him a congratulatory tweet from Pedro Martinez, a Hall of Fame pitcher from his native Dominican Republic.
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Trump's congratulatory call stood out among Western leaders, many of whom struck a less laudatory tone over the controversial vote.
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Congratulatory calls pour in from the nationalist leaders of Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland, Italy, Austria — and the United States.
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"I don't think that I will get a congratulatory tweet from the president if I win," Mr. Ossoff said carefully.
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An earlier version of this article misstated the timing of a congratulatory phone call from Mr. Trump to Mr. Zelensky.
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Trump broke with decades of U.S. protocol after his presidential election win when he accepted a congratulatory call from Tsai.
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She was last linked to actor Chris Evans, who you just know has already sent her a glowing, congratulatory text.
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His congratulatory phone call to Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on a referendum victory consolidating his power was doubtless appreciated.
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There had been a congratulatory phone call back in April, and now- HB: Which we recently saw the transcript of.
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Maybe a congratulatory letter to Akufo-Addo and the people of Ghana are in order early in the New Year.
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When we were backstage at this show we could hear our Japanese fans singing us a congratulatory song...in Korean!
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President Donald Trump defended his congratulatory phone call to Russian President Vladimir Putin in a pair of bellicose tweets Wednesday.
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Pelosi said as much in her tweeted response to Trump's speech, noting its self-congratulatory tone and lack of vision.
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The adorable post was quickly flooded with a number of congratulatory messages, including a comment from fellow mom Khloé Kardashian.
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Anyone who thinks Rahm will be happy just to be at the Masters didn't read his congratulatory tweet to Johnson.
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In Russia, where Women's Day has been an important festival since Communist times, flowers and congratulatory messages decorated public spaces.
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In other words, try keeping your projects to yourself until they're done — then feel free to post a self-congratulatory insta.
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President-elect Donald Trump touted resilient holiday spending and a strong stock market in a self-congratulatory tweet on Monday evening.
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But it seems like they're just super close friends and co-stars, and Heughan's congratulatory tweet to Balfe was downright adorable.
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During before dinner toasts, congratulatory notes were read aloud from four presidents, including Obama, both Bushes as well as the Clintons.
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It was all so self-congratulatory, like, "Aren't we the ..." But it was genuinely illuminating for me at the time. Right.
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In her congratulatory call to her rival she said she told him "now, Andrew, go out and win this damn thing".
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Plus, Belichick famously wrote Trump a congratulatory letter right before the election -- a letter Trump read onstage at a major event.
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The US Senate has gotten permission to begin using the encrypted phone app Signal, according to a congratulatory letter from Sen.
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During before dinner toasts, congratulatory notes were read aloud from four presidents, including Obama, both Bushes as well as both Clintons.
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These extensive references are not self-conscious or self-congratulatory, because Ms Monáe is embedded in the movements she sings about.
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Danielle Deleasa Jonas gave birth to the couple's second child on October 27, prompting congratulatory messages from uncles Nick and Joe.
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Indian Sports Minister Rajyavardhan Rathore shook hands with Afghan players before the match and read out a congratulatory statement from Modi.
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When she first told me on the phone she was pregnant, my response had been not congratulatory excitement, but sympathetic apology.
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In a self-congratulatory statement, Carl Icahn compared the Xerox/Fujifilm story to television dramas like House of Cards and Billions.
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The president-elect sent out congratulatory tweets hailing Ford's decision to cancel plans for a new, $1.6 billion Mexican assembly plant.
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In the meantime, Trump took to Twitter to thank all the world leaders for the congratulatory messages he has been receiving.
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Obama's message struck a congratulatory tone, with the former president appealing to Trump's ego as he dispensed four pieces of advice.
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The President struck a congratulatory tone, praising the work of local officials and first responders -- a "cheerleader in chief" of sorts.
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Soon after, Mark Zuckerberg penned a mildly self-congratulatory note about his company in a post on his personal Facebook page.
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Graduation season is upon us which means listening to long speeches, taking dozens of ceremonial photos and shopping for congratulatory gifts.
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Later Wednesday, Netanyahu said he received a congratulatory call from Trump while the president flew aboard Air Force One to Texas.
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Why would Trump be so congratulatory of Erdogan given the reservations from his own diplomatic corps and the broader democratic world?
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" She added that she was "so grateful and congratulatory to the women who came out after me and shared their truth.
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"One million viewers responded with congratulatory telephone calls, telegrams, letters or gifts," The Times noted in Ms. Ball's obituary in 1989.
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But under the circumstances, a congratulatory letter (and maybe the offer of a celebratory dinner at your place) seems like plenty.
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While at times the show could feel self-congratulatory in its grimness, it was addictive and thriller-like in its pacing.
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You need to find ways to demonstrate confidence — in the service of creating opportunities — without seeming self-congratulatory or off-putting.
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Discovering her intelligence, he gives her books to read, in the kind of gesture of easy, self-congratulatory idealism Kushner demolishes.
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After this debriefing, President Trump signed a congratulatory letter to President Zelensky and extended an invitation to visit the White House.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel lectured Trump on freedom, human rights and racial tolerance in her congratulatory message after his election win.
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According to the White House&aposs record, Trump had a "congratulatory" one-hour phone call with Putin on January 28, 2017.
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Oh, I don't know, this photo made me take a look at myself and check my self congratulatory ways a bit.
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She said former Vice President Joe Biden, Scranton's most famous native, called her after her win and left a congratulatory message.
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The diversity on display during Hollywood's self-congratulatory season — or the lack thereof — has been an incendiary topic in recent years.
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In December 2016, before he had assumed office, he took a congratulatory call from President Tsai, breaking with decades of precedent.
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There's nothing self-congratulatory about including Ruby and Sapphire's love story, Pearl's devotion to Rose Quartz, or any generally queer content.
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"All of the self-congratulatory back-patting Hollywood's been doing over Wonder Woman has been so misguided," he said in the interview.
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Hours after Sunday's attack unfolded, he issued a self-congratulatory tweet that noted his long stance that radical Islam leads to terrorism.
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"I just want to go and give Christopher a congratulatory snog," she said before reaching the smiling designer to do just that.
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Many celebrity fans posted about the pair's reunion, writing congratulatory messages and positive remarks in the comments section of Winkler's selfie tweet.
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Tomohiko Taniguchi, the Prime Minister's special adviser, said that Abe suggested the meeting during his congratulatory call to Trump on November 10.
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If you're Casey Affleck, Viola Davis, or Natalie Portman, your phone is probably blowing up with congratulatory texts and calls right now.
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They have maintained that Trump was accepting the congratulatory call of a foreign leader like he has with others around the world.
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"Exploited workers in this country are sick of press releases, rhetoric and self-congratulatory government announcements," said General Secretary Jason Moyer-Lee.
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When the two women were named to the 2016 team headed to Rio this summer, they gave each other a congratulatory hug.
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Photo: Drew Angerer (Getty)In a self-congratulatory move, Microsoft announced some major improvements today to its fundamentally biased facial recognition software.
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But some of his immediate reactions to the Orlando tragedy -- including a self-congratulatory tweet -- came off as tone deaf, or worse.
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In a photo of the pair side-by-side, Sharon sent her congratulatory wishes to her daughter and new son-in-law.
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" Her parents recorded a congratulatory video to the newlyweds in which her father described the union as "a match made in heaven.
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A scroll through the comments on Salenger's Instagram post announcing the engagement reveals plenty of positive and congratulatory notes for the couple.
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John Goodman's happy Roseanne Barr's happy about getting a congratulatory call from Donald Trump ... but the idea of the Prez calling him?
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And, to our dismay, the show's attendees remained silent, effectively condoning the show's message by posting congratulatory (and blurry) snapshots on Instagram.
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The Justice League star posted a congratulatory Instagram to his superhero co-star Jason Momoa by channeling his box-office smash Aquaman.
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The former reality-TV star rattled Beijing by taking a congratulatory call from Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen after the November election.
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Milliner says he brought the ticket to lottery officials and was given a congratulatory note along with a photocopy of his ticket.
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If Silicon Valley is the land of self-congratulatory BS, then Lyft President John Zimmer just made a play for the crown.
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Trump caused ructions late last year when as President-elect he accepted a congratulatory phone call from Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen.
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"Interesting how the U.S. sells Taiwan billions of dollars of military equipment but I should not accept a congratulatory call," he wrote.
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Gervais first hosted the Globes in 2010, and became known for turning a normally self-congratulatory night into something of a roast.
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In light of Alfie's recent Emmy nomination, however, Lily has been nothing but supportive, sharing a congratulatory message on her Instagram Story.
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Trump's congratulatory message came after Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull was ousted earlier Friday by rivals within his center-right Liberal Party.
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The congratulatory phone call adds yet another layer to the record of communications between the White House and the government of Ukraine.
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The 2628-minute call is largely congratulatory and genial, as it took place on April 28500, the day Zelensky won his election.
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The 16-minute call is largely congratulatory and genial, as it took place on April 21, the day Zelensky won his election.
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The climate crisis, more than anything, has highlighted the inadequacy of the liberal orthodoxy's self-congratulatory moderation and celebration of glacial incrementalism.
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The governor sounded congratulatory in his speech, saying he wanted to ensure the next governor of the state was still a Republican.
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The OEA sent congratulatory messages to several candidates from both parties, including school teachers and administrators on its Twitter account on Tuesday.
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Mr. McDonell is proud of each of his teams at the magazines he's edited, but this memoir is far from self-congratulatory.
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After Boston beat the Yankees, Cora went into the clubhouse for his congratulatory speech before the players unleashed their showers of Champagne.
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There's really nobody in the book besides Waldo, the other characters existing mostly to ferry congratulatory bouquets to his much-garlanded imagination.
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Fleenor gathered herself enough to post her good news on her Instagram account, but then a congratulatory text came in from Shelton.
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But the mood is almost universally somber — far removed from the fireworks and self-congratulatory speeches that usually accompany official anniversary celebrations.
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After sharing the baby news, Halcro received a bunch of congratulatory messages from her followers, including Kim, 39, and sister Khloé Kardashian.
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In his farewell speech, there was no more self-congratulatory praise for a country that gave him a chance to be president.
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He does a little tap dance to "Puttin' on the Ritz," but it's more self-congratulatory than a celebration for Paul's safety.
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Once on the sideline, Zeeb seeks out players from the scrum of bodies on the ground and offers them warm, congratulatory hugs.
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She got a congratulatory call from President Trump, who added — perhaps jokingly — that he would like to send an American to Mars.
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The next week, the commission that had voted repeatedly to fight Mr. Trump in court decided to send him a congratulatory letter.
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Now that Eli is calling it a career, Brady gave his old foe a congratulatory tweet ... and threw in a friendly jab.
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And some were repelled by what they described as a self-congratulatory tone and what several viewed as a lack of sincerity.
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The report strikes a generally cautious note, warning against what it calls morally self-congratulatory or even "Orwellian" erasures of the past.
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"To his surprise and gratification, more than a month later, the keys were returned," The Times said in a self-congratulatory advertisement.
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Trump told reporters at the White House that their phone conversation was mostly congratulatory but also touched on corruption and the Bidens.
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Spokesman Ivan Pavlosky sat in on Macri's congratulatory call to the president-elect and says the two did not discuss the building.
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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko asked Donald Trump for support against "Russian aggression" during a congratulatory telephone conversation with the US president-elect.
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On October 10, 2018, the company received a congratulatory email from CES, naming it an honoree in the robotics and drone category.
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Deriding Hollywood as smug, elitist, out of touch, and self-congratulatory is a common refrain outside of, and even within, the industry.
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After watching his best friend say "I do," Hough took to Instagram to pen a congratulatory message in honor of the happy couple.
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He even third-wheeled the newlyweds as the pair shared a congratulatory kiss after the charity match, a hilarious moment caught by photographers.
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In a congratulatory message to Trump, marking 40 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries, Xi said China-U.
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The political heartthrob wasted no time in reaching out to his country's greatest export, Best Actor nominee Ryan Gosling, with a congratulatory tweet.
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And a Minneapolis Star Tribune photo captured Zimmer seated on the team bus, smiling and scrolling through congratulatory text messages on his smartphone.
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But that day when I got that magazine I wrote you a congratulatory letter, and from that moment the Lord put us together.
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Trump, as U.S. President-elect, took a congratulatory phone call from Tsai in early December, the first such contact in nearly four decades.
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After the narrow vote, Trump phoned Kavanaugh in a congratulatory call, and signed his commission on Air Force One, the White House said.
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" Trump tweeted, adding: "Interesting how the U.S. sells Taiwan billions of dollars of military equipment but I should not accept a congratulatory call.
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General Magic features a lot of successful tech icons reminiscing about their younger days, a format that's ripe for blandly self-congratulatory mythmaking.
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I think of my savings account increasing and wonder when Mint will send me another congratulatory email on my newly developed spending habits.
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Trump was in congratulatory mode over what he considers to be a positive trajectory on U.S. efforts to crack down on such intrusions.
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Pratt, too, shared the news with his more than one million Twitter followers by retweeting congratulatory messages and tweeting his son's new name.
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Award shows are often criticized for being shallow and self-congratulatory, but these celebrities rose to the occasion to use their time powerfully.
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After hearing that Trump called the congratulatory chat between leaders the "worst phone call by far," the tweets just seemed to write themselves.
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Self-congratulatory soliloquies, for instance, are a mainstay of historical scripts, because actors like speeches and they are good for the Oscar montage.
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He alarmed China by breaking with decades of precedent last month by taking a congratulatory telephone call from Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen.
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While it's not immediately clear who did send the congratulatory bouquet to Cardi, many social media users were amused by the rapper's mistake.
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The newlywed royal gave husband Prince Harry a congratulatory smooch after handing over the winning trophy at a charity polo match on Thursday.
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The government told state-owned Comac in a congratulatory note that the C919 "carries great weight and importance to the country's innovation drive".
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Mark Zuckerberg showed off completing his annual personal challenge with a congratulatory Fast Company profile and some interesting videos full of WTF moments.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump invited Democratic Senator-elect Doug Jones to the White House in a congratulatory phone call, Jones said Wednesday.
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Barr's swift downfall comes after a year of successes, including record ratings for her show's debut and a congratulatory call from the president.
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The first daughter's congratulatory message came hours after Kensington Palace announced the wedding date for the British prince and American actress and humanitarian.
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There were fewer overtly political speeches and more of the self-congratulatory pats on the back that we've come to expect from Hollywood.
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Their first order of business was a congratulatory phone call from family and friends at the Russian mission control center outside of Moscow.
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Trump made headlines when he became the first American President-elect to accept a congratulatory phone call from Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen.
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What the audience heard that afternoon was not the usual self-congratulatory bromides that people of means come to expect from one another.
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Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor vanquished by Mr. Trump during the Republican primary process, sent Mr. Trump a congratulatory message on Twitter.
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China sent a short congratulatory note but made no mention of Mr. Trump's campaign promises to confront Beijing on trade and currency issues.
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China sent a short congratulatory note, but made no mention of Mr. Trump's campaign promises to confront it on trade and currency issues.
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Barr's abrupt downfall comes after a year of successes, including record ratings for her show's debut and a congratulatory call from the president.
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I was surprised to find few of the self-congratulatory souvenirs that a life of foreign correspondence usually imposes on a person's habitat.
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The hardest task in soccer — putting the ball into the net — lends itself to a certain type of self-confident, self-congratulatory personality.
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She said at a news conference that she had thought at first that the congratulatory telephone call from the Nobel committee was fake.
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Such moments make for more effective theater than the periodic group hugs and freakouts, which, however exhilarating, can feel indulgent and self-congratulatory.
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After the company and the union agreed to open new negotiations in March, Sanders' Senate office posted a congratulatory statement -- and a warning.
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And with the opening show here in Vancouver, he was far more a curious musician than a self-congratulatory, self-repeating pop star.
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Stripped of specificity, the speech feels like moral coddling, a self-congratulatory display of penance for the like-minded audience to eat up.
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The morning after Sivan posted the video, he woke up to a congratulatory e-mail from EMI, and the label finalized the deal.
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"I think for him to not take a congratulatory call would in and of itself be considered a snub," Mr. Ryan told reporters.
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With Hoyle as the thread, the work becomes increasingly self-congratulatory, a pat on the back for his empathy and cultural border crossing.
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Comments from several verified accounts on that Instagram post, including from the singer Janelle Monae, expressed congratulatory and emotional messages to the singer.
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Mr. Trump accepted a congratulatory phone call from Ms. Tsai after his election, a break from protocol that prompted angry responses from China.
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The problem is not that these questions are undeserving of consideration, but that Kurosawa poses them in a didactic, simplistic, self-congratulatory manner.
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Trump sent his own congratulatory message in return, saying it was his priority to promote cooperative and constructive U.S.-China relations, Xinhua added.
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He did not post often, but wrote congratulatory notes in Russian on various major holidays and occasionally voiced his opinions about American politics.
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So when, after he won the Palme d'Or, the country's education minister invited Mr. Kore-eda for a congratulatory meeting, the director demurred.
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Supporter Ann Sewell, who brought a clutch of congratulatory balloons to the bakery, compared Phillips&apos bravery to people opposed to the Vietnam War.
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Meghan and Harry shared a congratulatory kiss after handing over the winning trophy to Figueras at the Sentebale ISPS Handa Polo Cup on Thursday.
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Ivanka Trump went above and beyond a typical congratulatory tweet when sister-in-law Karlie Kloss made her Project Runway hosting debut this week.
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When Coleman crossed the stage, Nyong'o crossed her arms over her chest, flashing the quintessential "Wakanda Forever" signal, before giving Coleman a congratulatory hug.
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Following Khan's appointment, the US Department of State released a congratulatory statement stressing the importance of the strategic relationship shared by the two countries.
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I've been looking for a pair of earrings for my friend (who doesn't live here) as a congratulatory gift for releasing their new album.
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Indeed, very recently, Secretary Pompeo sent me a congratulatory note that I was doing great work, and he encouraged me to keep banging away.
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The program costs Airbnb virtually nothing, but without fail gains them a warm round of congratulatory press with every new wildfire, earthquake, and flood.
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Even though it's somewhat annoying, a self-congratulatory pat on the back is necessary here – we called this "need for security services" last year.
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Richie later posted a photo of the plate on her Snapchat with lines of what appears to be chocolate crossing out the congratulatory message.
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President Donald Trump was in the midst of an hour-long "congratulatory" call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to the White House's readout.
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Trump received a congratulatory phone call from Tsai on Friday, going against decades of America's "one China" policy of foregoing diplomatic relations with Taiwan.
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This is the root of so much of the self-congratulatory language that can make the festival seem insufferable to those who've never been.
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Terrified of the inevitable congratulatory messages, O'Kelly confined herself to the four walls of her house for the entire duration of her fatal pregnancy.
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He said he sent Trump a congratulatory letter the day after the election, and looks forward to Trump's plans to improve the nation's infrastructure.
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Women become pregnant under varied circumstances, not all of them planned or positive, so even the go-to congratulatory comments are not always appropriate.
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So, what better way to commemorate the one-year anniversary of his win than with a self-congratulatory tweet from halfway around the world!
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"The conversation I had was largely congratulatory, was largely corruption, all of the corruption taking place," Trump said, per tweets from White House correspondents.
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The book's self-congratulatory tone lands the wrong way: The "we" of the title does not refer to survivors or witnesses but to cartoonists.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A day after winning the Mexican presidential election, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador took a congratulatory call from U.S. President Donald Trump.
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The image Hollywood builds for itself at these self-congratulatory events can be used as a bargaining chip for behind-the-scenes activist wins.
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Some Chinese outlets appeared to jump the gun, with congratulatory tweets quickly deleted before the official confirmation of the landing came two hours later.
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Unlike previous Pakistani leaders, he is personally invested in better relations with Afghanistan — something that may have spurred Mr. Ghani's quick congratulatory phone call.
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They walked in Central Park, went to a Japanese restaurant and answered all the congratulatory calls and texts from family and friends back home.
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Yet he understood that millions of people were still hurting and refused to adopt the self-congratulatory tone that is in Mr. Trump's DNA.
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We bumped fists for the first time in our lives — she was usually more formal — and I sent her home with a congratulatory nod.
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Among scores of congratulatory phone calls she placed this week, Ms. Warren spoke with a list of influential Democrats in early presidential primary states.
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And though the Twitter chest-thumping is not new to the Biden camp, it's been more pronounced — and more self-congratulatory — since South Carolina.
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There were a few football-related messages early in 2016, including a congratulatory note to Harbaugh, coaching collegiately at Michigan, for a bowl victory.
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They can be miserably transparent (how many movies about show business have won best picture?); and risibly self-congratulatory (bloated epics, vanity projects, "Crash").
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"Today you, one of the initiators of the Sixties movement, turn 60," President Boris N. Yeltsin wrote in a congratulatory letter to Mr. Yevtushenko.
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Relations between Washington and Beijing had been frozen since December, when Mr. Trump took a congratulatory phone call from Taiwan's president, Tsai Ing-wen.
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It's both congratulatory--we've accomplished a lot in the last decade, but it's just a start and we've got a lot ahead of us.
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Bryant's last tweet was a congratulatory message to James for passing him on the NBA all-time scorers list to claim the third spot.
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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey cements his repressive and increasingly imperious rule in a dubious referendum and gets a congratulatory call from Trump.
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His performances have prompted congratulatory messages from French President Emmanuel Macron, but on Tuesday he had to share the plaudits with his team mates.
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In most of these photos you see the criminal aspects of the numbers, rather than the everyday-ness — the communal, reciprocal and congratulatory qualities.
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As president-elect, Trump broke with protocol and accepted a congratulatory phone call from the Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen in December, angering China.
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We got Hoda Wednesday morning outside 30 Rock, and she said Matt sent her a congratulatory text after finding out she got the gig.
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That's why you get the 40 under 40 lists, because they're trying to sell congratulatory ads for ... This is a well-known trade model.
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"She had drafted a funny congratulatory letter to send to Bill Clinton — assuming that he would take over the role of presidential spouse," Page writes.
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Carlos's tweet garnered more than 276,193 likes, more than 89,000 retweets and even drew a congratulatory note from Fifty Shades of Grey author E.L. James.
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Days after the U.S. election, Trump accepted a congratulatory phone call from Taiwan's president, suggesting a break in Washington's four-decade-old "One China" policy.
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"Interesting how the U.S. sells Taiwan billions of dollars of military equipment but I should not accept a congratulatory call," Trump said in another tweet.
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Note to colleges everywhere: Telling students with a snap is way faster — and more surprising — than simply sending a congratulatory T-shirt in the mail.
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The twosome smiled for photos, with proud wife McNearney even stopping to give her husband a congratulatory kiss on the cheek for a few snaps.
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The President tweeted a congratulatory note to Perez, the former labor secretary, for winning the race for chair of the Democratic National Committee on Saturday.
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"The self-congratulatory messaging was a little overwhelming considering some of the major issues they still had not addressed, including their accommodation policy," she said.
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Other stars who were left off the nominees list — despite anticipated nods — also tweeted their thoughts, all which were congratulatory messages to their fellow castmates.
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As the results of the vote became clear Western officials, including Jens Stoltenberg, NATO's secretary-general, rushed to bolster the Macedonian government with congratulatory messages.
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During the visit, Harry tried his hand at archery, landing the arrow close to the target's center and receiving a congratulatory handshake for his efforts.
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So politicians from the regions and federal government were in a self-congratulatory mood after they signed a "Canadian Free-Trade Agreement" on April 7th.
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In addition, Kelly received more congratulatory messages from NBC's Chuck Todd, Fox's Janice Dean and Mindy Finn as well as Fox News CEO Rupert Murdoch.
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Already, Podesta was focused on what Obama might hear about the G-20 from President George W. Bush in an expected upcoming congratulatory telephone call.
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During the visit, Harry tried his hand at archery, landing the arrow close to the target's center and receiving a congratulatory handshake for his efforts.
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It is unclear what led Trump to ditch nearly 40 years of diplomatic protocol and take a congratulatory telephone call from Taiwan's Tsai Ing-wen.
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He was fresh from a day spent discussing the vagaries of coalition politics with Austria's president, and taking a congratulatory call from France's Emmanuel Macron.
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In a pure Morgan moment, she dropped her congratulatory bouquet of flowers into a decanter of whiskey and then waited for someone, anyone, to notice.
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Working in tech, it's hard to avoid the many stories and congratulatory tweets about the latest company to close a funding round, and little wonder.
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He is a loafer, synonymous in many respects with the dandy — the foppish, 19th-century urbanite man of gaudy fashions and self-congratulatory quick wits.
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"There will be no call to Erdogan from the Commission, certainly not a congratulatory call," a Western official with knowledge of EU policy told Reuters.
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On Tuesday, social media lit up with congratulatory messages and "Ella and Alexander" was among the top trending topics on Twitter in the United States.
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Cast mate Shep Rose, who has been very vocal with his concerns about Craig's law career, was the first to publicly tweet a congratulatory message.
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Kanye West premiered the music video for "Famous" last night in Los Angeles, and it's absolute clickbait in the most congratulatory meaning of the word.
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After Trump accepted a congratulatory phone call from Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, Beijing expressed its strong indignation at the perceived breach of diplomatic protocol.
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The first time Mr. Obama called Mr. Trudeau after a congratulatory election-night call was to give him a heads-up about his Keystone decision.
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" The guide, which is available online, notes that calls to foreign officials are generally congratulatory and "typically do not touch heavily on outstanding policy issues.
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At the conclusion of every year, Russian President Vladimir Putin has a tradition of sending warm, congratulatory letters to heads-of-state around the world.
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The admission apparently happened right after Trump had thanked May for being the first foreign leader to offer a congratulatory call after Trump's election victory.
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President Donald Trump made headlines when he became the first American president-elect to accept a congratulatory phone call from Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen.
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It turns out the answer doesn't matter much, because the Paris Agreement was little more than another exercise in United Nations self-congratulatory back-patting.
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With a Twitter post Friday evening, the business mogul declared the call was of a congratulatory nature and came directly from President Tsai Ing-wen.
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And somewhere in there, The City and the City avoids being a self-congratulatory thought experiment and becomes a great and thought-provoking detective story.
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Losing the point was awful, but even worse for Bragen was the knowledge that Alhadeff was about to let loose with a self-congratulatory yell.
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There's evidence that high levels of screen time in preschoolers may hinder brain developmentA mysterious marketing scheme sends congratulatory cards to women who aren't pregnant
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It's practically a given that it would end on a logic-stretching plot while simultaneously rolling around in self-congratulatory glee at its own cleverness.
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So they sent fawning congratulatory tweets, posted generic blog posts to Medium and name-dropped their deals on one of a dozen interchangeable V.C. podcasts.
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When President Donald Trump made a congratulatory phone call to Russian leader Vladimir Putin, White House chief of staff John Kelly wasn't on the line.
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If they are lucky, the college might send home a congratulatory note, to be tacked onto the refrigerator, about the child making the dean's list.
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Tom Perez fired back at President Trump on Saturday after the president offered the newly elected Democratic National Committee (DNC) chairman a mock-congratulatory tweet.
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He received congratulatory greetings from his home state senator, John F. Kennedy, and President Dwight D. Eisenhower and got his first $1 from Eleanor Roosevelt.
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On May 29, President Trump signed a congratulatory letter to President Zelenskyy, which included an invitation to visit the White House at an unspecified date.
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Trump also addressed taking an unprecedented phone call from Taiwan, saying he was notified of the short congratulatory call a few hours before it came in.
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In December, President-elect Donald Trump called into question the future of the policy by taking a congratulatory phone call from Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen.
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Johnson got the news that he had been selected by Trump in a congratulatory email sent to him by the campaign's California delegate coordinator, Katie Lagomarsino.
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Even Warren, who had a cool relationship with the Obama administration, released a TV ad on Tuesday with a similar congratulatory message from the former president.
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In a doubles match on Monday in the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters, Dominic Inglot mistook a ballboy providing him some shade as a congratulatory fist bump.
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William Taylor testified that Trump, having promised Zelensky a White House meeting in a congratulatory letter on May 29th, declined to set a date for weeks.
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As for the show's casting, a highlight was Bella Hadid walking alongside her sister, Gigi; Bella then posted a sweet congratulatory Instagram shot after the show.
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A colleague who's a play-by-play announcer, Mike Breen, promptly sent her a congratulatory text saying she set the standard for women in basketball broadcasting.
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It's an amusing and ultimately doomed attempt to deploy the self-congratulatory legend of The Southern Gentleman (in defense of a foul-mouthed Yankee, no less).
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"While I don't expect a congratulatory tweet if I win, I will work with anyone in Washington — including him — to get things done for this district."
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European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker sent a congratulatory letter to Babis, saying that the new government should keep in mind the European Union's common values.
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As a UW admissions counselor tells WBAY, in addition to traditional acceptance letters, this year's accepted students also receive congratulatory Snaps sent straight to their smartphones.
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The astronauts conducting the first all-female spacewalk in history paused their hourslong endeavor to take a congratulatory phone call from President Donald Trump on Friday.
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The billionaire says that when a new business reaches a milestone at Amazon, no matter how small, there are congratulatory messages sent to the company's employees.
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Trump's self-congratulatory reiteration of his call for a temporary ban on non-American Muslims entering the United States exemplifies his violence-tinged politics of division.
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After receiving the congratulatory call, Trump spoke at of unity at this election party, telling the country he wanted to be a president for all Americans.
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The Chinese president, Xi Jinping, sent a short congratulatory note, but made no mention of Mr. Trump's promises to confront Beijing on trade and currency issues.
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Venezuela: Trump used a congratulatory phone call to opposition leader Juan Guaidó on Wednesday to maintain international pressure on isolated President Nicolás Maduro to leave power.
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After a month of complying with a White House "gag order", the agency's first public communication in almost a month was a congratulatory message to Pruitt.
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And there's just so much of it now and before the election day there was a lot...The self-congratulatory trumpeteering in KiA is so obnoxious.
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The prospect of a meeting with Putin, which Trump first raised during a congratulatory phone call in March, has sent ripples of consternation through European capitals.
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The President also claimed news anchors sent the White House congratulatory letters about the meeting but then were told to cool their praise by their bosses.
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Joe Biden and his advisers are racing to compete with Trump's megaphone and his often self-congratulatory version of events, which routinely clash with the truth.
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Bella posted a photo of her holding Tana on her official IG with a somewhat congratulatory message ... that was more about her birthday than her engagement.
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The congratulatory text messages and phone calls poured in from friends and family members, some of whom, Glass said, had not been in touch for years.
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There's just something self-congratulatory about shows that are complicated and mysterious for the sake of being complicated and mysterious that I find completely off-putting.
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There's just something self-congratulatory about shows that are complicated and mysterious for the sake of being complicated and mysterious that I find completely off-putting.
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Meadows also starts off with the goodwill of Trump's allies outside the administration, who welcomed his hiring with a hailstorm of congratulatory tweets and positive press.
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In one running joke, every time the chief drops by Holm's apartment with a congratulatory loaf of walnut bread, she's in bed with a different colleague.
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Billboard's weekly charts, compiled from data collected by Nielsen, are posted every Monday, with self-congratulatory tweets from victorious artists and record labels coming soon after.
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Neither Musk nor Grimes has commented on the rumors, but there were comments with congratulatory messages from verified accounts on one of Grimes&apos Instagram posts.
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A Friday afternoon, pre-Super Bowl concert in Miami is fully in keeping with the series' optics: unpretentious, laid-back, multi-lingual, and very self-congratulatory.
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While many of the comments in response to the tweet were congratulatory of NYPD's bust, some Twitter users voiced their opinion that marijuana should be legal.
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In April 2017, following a suspected Syrian chemical attack on civilians, Kim sent Assad a congratulatory message to mark the founding anniversary of Syria's ruling party.
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"We started working together in November," Bradaric said after the match, between congratulatory hugs with coaches and players in the corridor next to the players' restaurant.
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After the game, UConn stayed on the court to watch a congratulatory video made by former players as fans held up signs reading, "90 and Counting."
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In 2017, Trump received criticism after visiting damage zones in Puerto Rico and Texas and was accused of appearing overly congratulatory, even as conditions remained dire.
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Separately, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said Xi had sent a congratulatory message to Trump upon his assumption of office, but gave no other details.
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For example, his monumental trophy series addresses the simultaneous histories of police brutality and trophy design, juxtaposing congratulatory messaging with the visual language of violent oppression.
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Kim sent a congratulatory message to Xi last week at the end of China's Communist Party Congress, wishing him "great success" as head of the nation.
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It is entirely possible that Mr. Foye, a blunt and plain-spoken executive, no longer has any interest in accommodating a self-congratulatory exercise by board members.
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Besides, Macklemore is handed a plum opportunity to use his self congratulatory wokeness for a good purpose and botches it with a stupid punchline about Starburst flavors.
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Paris and Nicky snapped photos on the beach leading up to the big day and shared sweet congratulatory photos of their baby bro and his new bride.
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The president's decision to skip the WHCA dinner arrives at a time when even journalists have questioned whether the event has become too insular and self-congratulatory.
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"Let the broad avenues of sovereignty and friendship of our peoples be opened," Maduro said in a congratulatory tweet to Lopez Obrador following his July 1 win.
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After the 2017 nominations were officially announced this morning, stars turned to social media to express their excitement and congratulatory wishes to the nominees — but not Harris!
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First, we learned that Kim and Kanye may have spent more on one congratulatory flower arrangement for Kylie than they did on their newsworthy see-through crib.
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The east Asian country generated headlines over the weekend after Donald Trump tweeted that the Taiwan president Tsai Ing-wen had given him a congratulatory phone call.
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Despite their statements and self-congratulatory videos to the contrary, when it comes to keeping the government staffed, Senate Republicans have flatly refused to do their jobs.
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When Bechard made the miracle shot, the entire Kansas arena stood up and cheered in disbelief as friends ran over to tackle him in a congratulatory hug.
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At its worst, there's something mustily mid-'90s about its self-congratulatory rudeness, its sensibilities lying somewhere between a Farrelly brothers film and a Mountain Dew commercial.
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The game, which starts out with an introduction page (left) and ends with a congratulations (right) After the player finishes the game, a congratulatory message pops up.
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Cardi B was also feeling the love on Monday from actor Will Smith, who made a special congratulatory video for the new mom while abroad in Russia.
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Beyond this piece being an impressive, if faintly self-congratulatory, celebration of Mr. Andriessen's capacious — indeed, Kircheresque — skills, it is hard to tell just what it means.
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In April last year, following a suspected Syrian chemical attack on civilians, Kim sent Assad a congratulatory message to mark the founding anniversary of Syria's ruling party.
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While the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain general secretary, Jason Moyer-Lee, tweeted that "exploited workers are sick of press releases, rhetoric and self-congratulatory announcements".
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Froome sent a congratulatory tweet to his young team mate on Sunday, accompanied by a photo of himself raising a glass of champagne to toast the Colombian.
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The telescope will help China make "major advances and breakthroughs at the frontier of science," President Xi Jinping of China said in a congratulatory message on Sunday.
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This announcement came several days after President Donald Trump on Sunday spent nearly an hour speaking about the Baghdadi operation in a celebratory and self-congratulatory fashion.
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President Trump angered Chinese leaders in the weeks after winning the 2016 presidential election when he took a congratulatory phone call with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen.
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Beijing was furious when U.S. President-elect Donald Trump broke years of diplomatic tradition by accepting a congratulatory telephone call from Tsai after his surprise election win.
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"Portrait of the Jeweler Karl Krall" (1923) captures the campy arrogance of the nouveau riche in the middle aged, bespectacled jeweler's ostentatious pose and self-congratulatory air.
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As guests filed out in a light drizzle, the couple slipped away to the White House, where they met the president for a congratulatory hug and photo.
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If that sounds like a slogan, it's truth in advertising, an established fact that this most self-congratulatory of companies has never been too modest to trumpet.
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Most speakers tend to steer clear of controversial or incendiary topics, relying instead on relatively safe monologues of congratulatory sentiments and career advice in their given discipline.
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One of the party's elected lawmakers, Moshe Gafni, placed a fawning congratulatory call to her — "Now you can do everything you think should be done," he said.
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The queen sends out congratulatory telegrams to her subjects when they have been married for 60 years, but her own children are unlikely to reach the milestone.
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As it happens, I saw the somber and weirdly self-congratulatory 2011 film "Uncle Kent," directed by Joe Swanberg and starring Kent Osborne as the title character.
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Trump broke decades of protocol and took a brief congratulatory call from Tsai upon his election in 2016, but the two have yet to meet in person.
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The two cheered their faces off all night long for the Mystics ... and were spotted giving congratulatory hugs to Mystics superstar Elena Delle Donne after the game.
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Within hours of Mr. Zelensky's victory, Mr. Trump placed a congratulatory call as he was en route from his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida to Washington.
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On Soccer Germany's players were still embracing on the field, some minutes away from lifting the Confederations Cup trophy, when the congratulatory messages started to pour in.
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Gone was President Obama's self-congratulatory moral posturing, replaced by a concrete list of accomplishments that will inevitably increase the power of America's presence in the world.
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It's impossible to tell just what popular means for many of these titles, even if some received congratulatory public messages upon the first week of their release.
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Kim sent Putin a congratulatory message on Wednesday saying he believed that "the common understanding and agreements made at our first significant meeting will bear rich fruits".
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As an official response to Time's Up, the montage might have felt self-congratulatory — strong female characters on film, however important, don't actually protect workers from harassment.
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That was especially apparent when she did "Poppin," a self-congratulatory anthem that found its way onto the soundtrack for HBO's second season of Insecure this year.
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Potter's post did not definitively say she is expecting another child, but fans immediately sent congratulatory messages on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook where she had posted the snap.
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Trump's inconsistent and often self-congratulatory response to such crises misses opportunities to portray himself and his insurgent, populist campaign as delivering the right message for testing times.
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Keep a record of your achievements, and copies of any congratulatory emails or notes that colleagues, clients or your manager has sent to you about your good work.
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As Hollywood events go, there are few more congratulatory than film festival awards ceremonies, where everyone wants to cheer for the Next Big Thing before they get huge.
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Commence the ordering of celebratory floral arrangements, the sending of congratulatory texts, and the waving of fists as you realize your favorite film of the year got snubbed.
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The Trump children are more self-congratulatory, praising their father for selflessly giving up a life that was "the epitome of the American dream" to serve as president.
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In fact, a football season is remarkably similar to beating an early arcade game: a short congratulatory message, then repeat the entire thing, a little harder this time.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping, in his capacity as head of China's Communist Party, sent a congratulatory message to Hung, according to a note released by the Nationalist Party.
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One of the most telling signs of a comedy's growing confidence is its ability to pull off callbacks to its own jokes without coming off as self-congratulatory.
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivered a congratulatory speech before assembled dignitaries including Crown Prince Akishino, the emperor's younger brother, and his family, all adorned in brightly colored robes.
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And of course the celebrating will include lots of dancing for the Dancing with the Stars alum, who received a congratulatory text from her pro partner Mark Ballas.
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Among other laurels, she received a congratulatory letter from President Obama; and in April, she was given a Yes I Can Award by the Council for Exceptional Children.
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Turnbull would not disclose if he raised the issue with Trump during his congratulatory phone call, nor discuss whether he expected the incoming president to honour the deal.
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Finally, it has to be pointed out: this group of artists represents the boys' club of Mexican contemporary art, making the exhibition irritatingly self-congratulatory and even hypocritical.
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Reports emerged earlier Monday, for example, that Trump used a congratulatory call from Macri to seek the Argentine president's help on a stalled building project in Buenos Aires.
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The carrier issued a next-day press release which, like Verizon's, is less focused on information about the handset than self-congratulatory statements about the two companies involved.
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U.S. President Donald Trump, who was inaugurated on Friday, broke with decades of precedent last month by taking a congratulatory telephone call from Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen.
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Stewart, who received a congratulatory message on Twitter from Trump after the primary, has ties to two notable white nationalists and has drawn increasing scrutiny because of it.
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Odds are listed at -150 that Trump will congratulate the winning team via Twitter by midnight Sunday, and +120 that he won't issue a congratulatory tweet by then.
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"Many of his friends had posted congratulatory messages on his Facebook page," Kriti Bharti, an activist whose charity, Sarathi Trust, has helped annul many child marriages, told AFP.
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But the de la Renta connection was not lost on the audience, and the applause at the end of the show felt congratulatory in more ways than one.
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In September, the legendary Memphis rapper released congratulatory tune "Ballin'" with Kanye West which is set to be featured on his upcoming album Rubba Band Business: The Album.
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When he was still president-elect, Mr. Trump initially signaled a more fulsome embrace of Taiwan by accepting a congratulatory phone call from its president, Tsai Ing-wen.
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"I didn't take a different approach to this story than any other," Mr. Howard said shortly after waking up to a flood of congratulatory texts on Saturday morning.
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Steve Zimmer, the school board president who lost to the challenger Nick Melvoin, was so angered by the defeat that he refused to make the customary congratulatory call.
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Danes aren't unusually careless about animal welfare, but there's a tradition of pragmatism—or, a critic could say, an insular and self-congratulatory moral laxity—about animal death.
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An excellent example of what not to award, however, comes from "The Pulitzer at 100," an hour and a half of congratulatory platitudes timed to the prizes' centennial.
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Apparently not college soccer star Robbie Robinson, however, who had a muted response to receiving a congratulatory call from Becks on his move to Inter Miami on Thursday.
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The April conversation between Trump and Zelensky included no mention of an investigation into the Bidens, serving more as a congratulatory call for the Ukrainian leader's election victory.
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He declined to be interviewed, but he is circulating a letter of support for the judge and posted a congratulatory message to Judge Gorsuch on his Facebook page.
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"In a congratulatory message dated Sunday, Xi expressed his wishes that the Zimbabwean government and people would make more achievements in national development under Mnangagwa's leadership," Xinhua said.
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Policy endorsements get threaded in, sometimes less artfully; after the World Series, she turned a congratulatory tweet for the Washington Nationals into an endorsement for Washington, D.C., statehood.
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Peskov said Putin had received congratulatory phone calls from other foreign leaders, and acknowledged that busy schedules may make it difficult for some leaders to make such calls.
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President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory message to Duterte on Monday, saying China hoped "the two sides can work together to bring bilateral relations back on a healthy track".
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The sensitivity of the issue was underlined last month when China protested after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump accepted a congratulatory phone call from the president of the island.
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On Sunday, Hollywood's (mostly) inebriated, self-congratulatory side will be on full display on a NBC channel near you, as Jimmy Fallon kicks off the 74th annual Golden Globes.
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Furthermore, the self-congratulatory use of diversity as a public relations tool risks masking the very serious systemic inequalities, which continue to persist at all levels of our field.
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" He said he didn't support the invasion or occupation of Iraq and found the gesture of giving up a first-class seat to a soldier "smug and self-congratulatory.
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The controversy erupted after Trump accepted a congratulatory call from Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen -- contravening precedent under which presidents and presidents-elect have declined contact with Taiwanese leaders.
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Trump triggered protests from Beijing last month by accepting a congratulatory telephone call from Tsai and questioning Washington's commitment to China's position that Taiwan is part of one China.
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Phillips delivers that message in a self-congratulatory way, largely by setting the film in a world where Arthur has no choice but violence, and no escape but madness.
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But no presidential candidate in living memory has built a campaign so exclusively on the foundation of his own personal, brand, self-congratulatory rhetoric and life story as Trump.
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" Ms. Burch's Instagram post had more than 630 mostly congratulatory comments as of Wednesday morning, and social media was buzzing with such questions as "What are the ring details?
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"I mean look, this is one of those complex situations," admitted Kotb, 53, who received a congratulatory text from Lauer when she was named co-anchor in early January.
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An official from the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia tells us President Borut Pahor and Prime Minister Dr. Miro Cerar sent Melania a congratulatory letter after the election.
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" In his congratulatory message to the tycoon, Indonesian President Joko Widodo said he hoped Washington would continue to work with Jakarta to "build peace and prosperity for the world.
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The Ride Along 2 star says she began being bombarded with unnecessary congratulatory messages after a "random magazine" published a story that she and boyfriend Aaron Rodgers got engaged.
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We hear a married man give smooth, smug and self-congratulatory permission to his intense impulses, allowing them to outweigh the most modest sense of decency, fidelity and commitment.
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While the performances were as solid as ever, the writing in this finale continually turned into a slog that often seemed like self-congratulatory circle-jerking on Kelley's part.
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This little bit of self-congratulatory detail, though, is all the more galling when compared to the half a billion Yahoo customers who have not, until now, been notified.
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Trump broke with decades of precedent last month by taking a congratulatory telephone call from Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen, angering Beijing which sees Taiwan as part of China.
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Odds are good you'll end up with some congratulatory cash in hand: The National Retail Federation projects consumers will spend a record $5.6 billion this year on graduation gifts.
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Needless to say the students protested by turning their backs to Ms. Devos, and the families and friends of the graduates, replete with flowers and congratulatory balloons booed loudly.
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It was brought to our attention that the 29-year-old comedian was off-the-market when her friend, podcaster Phoebe Robinson, posted a congratulatory message to the newlyweds.
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When the words "magical realism" are used to define a work of fiction, they're often congratulatory and meant as praise: Italo Calvino comes to mind, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
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Mr. Trump deleted a tweet, sent before the episode aired on Monday, campaigning for Mr. Spicer to stay on the show, then sent a congratulatory message after his elimination.
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Yet culturally they are often viewed as a perpetual Other, a timeless repository of negative characteristics atop which a positive, self-congratulatory image of the Western European is constructed.
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On his way to the dugout, Pineda — who has so often seemed to find trouble in the most benign circumstances — got a congratulatory hand slap from Manager Joe Girardi.
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Duke's fabled student section, the Cameron Crazies, credits itself with starting the air-ball chant, a self-congratulatory claim that's in keeping with the ethos of Duke basketball fandom.
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To the Editor: While we bask in a self-congratulatory haze over Roy Moore's loss in the special Senate race in Alabama, one fact should, nonetheless, be mulled over.
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After the finale, after the congratulatory hugs and kisses, after the journalists mostly clear out backstage, Luke and Lucie open a bottle of Champagne and share a contented smile.
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Any amateur or pro golfer who achieved a notable success could expect to receive in the mail a congratulatory note from Palmer, either handwritten or at least personally signed.
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"I literally just heard your voice Sunday morning before I left Philly to head back to LA," LeBron wrote later on Instagram, referring to a congratulatory call from Bryant.
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The big picture: Trump's congratulatory message comes as the eyes of the world have landed on Hong Kong, which faced another massive pro-democracy march that erupted into violence.
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Congressional Memo WASHINGTON — With self-congratulatory zeal and smiles all around, huge bipartisan majorities in Congress have just passed legislation to speed the discovery of cures for killer diseases.
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And then best of all, Johnson made a point to find Elliott again on pit road to offer a congratulatory beer and toast this once-in-a-lifetime day.
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The US President made the offer during his congratulatory phone call to Johnson after he won an 80-strong majority at the UK&aposs general election earlier this month.
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That same day, Park also sent a congratulatory message to Trump expressing hopes for strengthened cooperation in handling North Korea-related issues and enhancing the US-South Korea alliance.
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On Sunday night, the pair attended the Billboard Music Awards together, with Shelton winning the award for top country artists after sharing a congratulatory kiss with Stefani in the audience.
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Neither do I want to see a congratulatory attitude about avoiding such unrest over injustice to become a substitute for the hard, uncomfortable work we must undertake to correct wrongs.
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So–STOP IT." In August, Cameron called the film "a step backwards," claiming "all of the self-congratulatory back-patting Hollywood's been doing over Wonder Woman has been so misguided.
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Lemon was leaving the CNN building after his show Monday night when we asked about Trump's congratulatory tweet to Bosa ... who had been very vocal about his support for #45.
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After Jordan won the starting spot in JoJo's heart last night, the NFL tweeted a congratulatory video featuring highlights from his collegiate career set to some wannabe Natalie Imbruglia tune.
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Now, she posts and deletes right wing fever dream conspiracy theories about fake sex trafficking or Parkland survivors and receives congratulatory phone calls from a racist president, whom she supports.
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The president's weekend tweets usually include reactionary jabs at his enemies, but this time he sent out some congratulatory messages to both himself and his allies, mostly about tax cuts.
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In the press conference after the decision, Mario Draghi, the central bank's head, in a self-congratulatory moment, called the minimal market impact proof of the ECB's "really effective" communication.
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C.K. made himself That Guy not by being self-congratulatory, but by exploring dark, unflattering truths in his work – even if that meant making himself the villain here and there.
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From the moment we saw Michelle give her husband a congratulatory fist bump after he clinched the Democratic presidential nomination in 212, we knew we were in for a treat.
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Bharara also opened an inquiry into the governor's own "commission to investigate public corruption," which, in his vintage Cuomo panache, he launched with as much self-congratulatory fanfare as possible.
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Trump triggered protests from Beijing last month by accepting a congratulatory telephone call from Tsai and questioning the U.S. commitment to China's position that Taiwan is part of one China.
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Nadal sent a congratulatory message to Muguruza, who said one of the first thoughts she had afterward was to wonder how on earth Nadal managed to win nine French Opens.
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When Koons' "Balloon Dog," a giant stainless steel recreation of a balloon animal, sold for a record-breaking $58.4 million in 2013, Koons posted a self-congratulatory selfie on Snapchat.
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Presdient Trump sent a congratulatory tweet Friday morning applauding the latest news from today's historic meeting between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in.
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High technology is rarely, if ever, a solution for social ills, and usually serves as a self-congratulatory deference mechanism at best, or actually causes even more problems at worst.
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Former reality-TV star Donald Trump loves a TV show with good ratings, and when its main character and star is a Trump supporter, well, that deserves a congratulatory call.
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In December 2016, in an apparently carefully choreographed move, Trump, as President-elect, took a congratulatory call from Tsai, the first direct communication between American and Taiwanese leaders since 1979.
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The two actresses posed for pictures, giving each other a congratulatory handshake, a show of support no doubt made easier by the fact that they are competing in separate categories.
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The tone of that April 21 call, which was blasted out moments before ousted ambassador Yovanovitch began testifying, was much more congratulatory, taking place hours after Zelensky's historic landslide election.
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When I visited in September, a few months after the election, civic groups, nurses, and local politicians had hung congratulatory banners from the concrete buildings that line the major streets.
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But consider what happened at the end of the contest, when the vanquished tends to slink off the stage as the victor preens to the applause of a congratulatory crowd.
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In the case of China, Mr. Trump may have thought he was simply defending his decision to take a congratulatory phone call from the president of Taiwan after the election.
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After the game, Martellus Bennett, a tight end for the Patriots, reiterated his vow not to attend the customary congratulatory ceremony at the White House, because he opposes Mr. Trump.
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Barr, who has described Trump as a friend of more than 20 years, said Thursday that the president had delivered a congratulatory phone call to her after the ratings victory.
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Days after Amy said "yes" to Marek's proposal last week, her ex-husband and Little People, Big World costar Matt Roloff sent a congratulatory message to the recently engaged couple.
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Later in the day, the president found time to retweet a congratulatory post for Bryce Mitchell, who became the second man in UFC history to score a twister submission finish.
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Trump described the nature of his July 25 talk with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as "largely congratulatory" and focused on corruption before suggesting the Bidens were a point of discussion.
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That tightrope walk took a momentary sidestep in December when the president-elect at the time, Donald J. Trump, accepted a congratulatory phone call from Taiwan's president, Tsai Ing-wen.
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Obama sent James a congratulatory text after his team, the Cleveland Cavaliers, overcame a 3-1 deficit in the NBA finals and beat the Golden State Warriors in game 7.
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When the Indians announced in October 1974 that Robinson would become their manager, a milestone event in baseball's race relations, he received a congratulatory telegram from President Gerald R. Ford.
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While he enjoyed watch his fellow pitchers dominate throughout the year, sending them congratulatory texts and keeping in touch, Wheeler also admits that having to watch from afar was difficult.
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Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying did not give details of the message from Xi to Kim but confirmed it had been sent to express thanks for Kim's congratulatory messages.
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China has announced that it would respond with unspecified retaliatory measures, but President Xi Jinping talked about the need for Sino-American cooperation in his congratulatory phone call to Mr. Trump.
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China distrusts Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen and has stepped up pressure on her following a protocol-breaking, congratulatory telephone call between her and U.S. President-elect Donald Trump last month.
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Zoë Kravitz says she got more congratulatory messages about landing her role as Catwoman in "The Batman" than she did for her birthday or her June 2019 wedding to Karl Glusman.
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With the gradual approach of summer, this year's batch of new graduates is gearing up to toss their caps and mortarboards, set gifted flowers in water, and deposit any congratulatory checks.
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Kim Jong Un sent a rare congratulatory message to Xi last week at the end of China's all-important Communist Party Congress, wishing him "great success" as head of the nation.
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In most countries such a mistake would be insignificant, the result of sloppy reporting or ambiguous phrasing (in Mandarin, the phrase "sent a congratulatory note" can also mean "congratulate by phone").
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But before we all get too self-congratulatory, lets ask – why did these companies sell at $300 million to $350 million when everyone in the valley wants to ride a unicorn?
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There was no self-congratulatory nod to the fact that she was the first female nominee of a major party to take that stage before as many as 100 million people.
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The Terminator director made his thoughts known in a recent interview with The Guardian: All of the self-congratulatory back-patting Hollywood's been doing over Wonder Woman has been so misguided.
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After all, it's been years since most of us heard the AOL Man issue a congratulatory proclamation when we're greeted by the bold font of an unread message in our inbox.
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In addition to fans showering the engaged duo with congratulatory messages, Joe's loved ones, including brother Nick Jonas and ex-girlfriend Demi Lovato, also expressed their happiness for Jonas and Turner.
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However, Bezos sent out a congratulatory tweet to Trump on Thursday saying how how he'll give the president-elect his "most open mind" and wishing him "great success" for the future.
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Over lunch at the White House, he showed a group of Republican senators a reconstructed transcript of a congratulatory phone conversation he had in April with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine.
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"Despite their statements and self-congratulatory videos to the contrary, when it comes to keeping the government staffed, Senate Republicans have flatly refused to do their jobs," she wrote for CNN.
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And it's important that Trump avoid resorting to inane, self-congratulatory political happy talk at a time when hundreds of thousands of people are grappling with death, thirst, sickness and more.
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After her show on Saturday, which was attended by her husband Matt Rutler and their 4-year-old daughter Summer Rain, Aguilera joined several invited guests for a congratulatory champagne toast.
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"Although this arrest is an important step, it is not the final conclusion," he said, appearing alongside Mr. Michel after the two leaders received a congratulatory phone call from President Obama.
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Roseanne Barr's reboot at ABC is gone, less than 12 hours after her racist tweet and notwithstanding ratings so strong that she picked up a congratulatory phone call from President Trump.
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The content of the messages is trivial, however, revealing only a congratulatory note from a senior State Department official following an appearance by Clinton on Capitol Hill, months after the attacks.
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That was several minutes after Bob Myers, Golden State's president of basketball operations, fielded a congratulatory FaceTime call from his injured but giddy superstar Kevin Durant as the game wound down.
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The reaction on Twitter on Wednesday to the recapture was made up mostly of congratulatory notes to the police, but here and there the response was, if anything, a little wistful.
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Matthew Besheer, who once worked on the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force in New York, sent Garcia a congratulatory note and then called his ex-wife to give her the news.
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Back in December, Mr. Trump became an unlikely partner for many Taiwanese when he broke with decades of precedent by accepting a congratulatory phone call from Taiwan's president, Tsai Ing-wen.
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Within a few days, on May 29, President Trump indeed signed the congratulatory letter to President Zelensky, which included an invitation to the president to visit him at the White House.
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He also accused Wilson of grandstanding during a speech at the opening of an FBI field office, though video of her remarks fail to show the self-congratulatory comments he mentioned.
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Read: Pirate Joe's, Maverick Distributor of Trader Joe's Products, Shuts Down In the lead up to the sesquicentennial edition of Canada Day, the country is in something of self-congratulatory mood.
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Trump used China as a regular punching bag during his campaign and caused ire in Beijing last week by taking a congratulatory call from Taiwan's president, breaching decades of diplomatic practice.
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He accepted a congratulatory telephone call from Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen, shocking not only Beijing but governments and scholars around the world who had grown comfortable with Taiwan's diplomatic isolation.
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"The Wife" is calibrated for maximum audience flattery: viewers are encouraged to nod in recognition at the literary milieu and clap their hands in self-congratulatory glee at the husband's fall.
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Workers scrambled to hang congratulatory banners in the lobby of the Koryo Hotel, my home away from home in the North Korean capital, where I was posted as an Associated Press correspondent.
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When his favorite team won, Cooper, 43, seemed overwhelmed, throwing his hands into the air and then running them through his hair as he turned toward Lurie to offer a congratulatory hug.
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President-elect Donald Trump's telephone created plenty of news over the weekend -- whether it was that "congratulatory" call with Taiwan's leader, his tweets aimed at China, or even his criticism of SNL.
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In a congratulatory phone call U.S. President Donald Trump agreed with Moon to cooperate on the North Korean nuclear issue and invited him to visit Washington, the South Korean presidential office said.
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While Woods' children were not present at Sunday's game, the pro athlete did receive a congratulatory smooch from girlfriend Erica Herman following his first win since the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational in 2013.
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After North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un sent Xi a congratulatory message for recently winning a second term as China's Communist Party leader, Xi called for "stable" relations between the two countries.
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In an interview with Reason magazine published Thursday, the host of the CNN culinary travel show Parts Unknown, slammed the "self-congratulatory" and "privileged left" for their disdain for working-class Americans.
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And since the White House hosts congratulatory celebrations for all sorts of athletes, Obama said it was only fitting that it do the same for those who excel in science and academics.
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After tearing up the course with a 62 on Saturday to take a one-stroke lead over Kraft, Herman revealed he had taken a congratulatory phone call from Trump the night before.
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Everywhere you go, millennials are pushing the boundaries of convention and defying the rules: Almost getting people elected, riding "hoverboards" that are actually basically just Segways, writing self-congratulatory thinkpieces about ourselves.
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Over a week after the Duke and Duchess of Sussex shared a congratulatory smooch at a charity polo match, Queen Elizabeth's granddaughter and her husband took things to a whole new level!
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Kraft appeared on "Fox & Friends" early Friday morning where was asked how he felt about Trump sending a congratulatory tweet to the Patriots following their big win in the AFC Championship game.
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Man the fuck up and say something interesting These comments aren't indefensible, but they are as trite, as smug, and as self-congratulatory as the 'fake grief' Long is lashing out at.
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In a congratulatory telegram, Mr Putin said he was ready to constructively work together on bilateral, regional and global issues as this was in the fundamental interests of both France and Russia.
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The president began his morning tweeting about collusion, before quickly retweeting a post about 9/11 and slapping on a few hashtags, then launching into a rambling, congratulatory message about Rudy Giuliani.
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South Korea's president, Park Geun-hye, also reached out to Mr. Trump on Thursday with a 10-minute congratulatory call, emphasizing the importance of maintaining strong sanctions and pressure against North Korea.
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Speaking to reporters on Sunday, Trump admitted he had spoken to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in July, and that the call was a "congratulatory" one centered on Zelensky's election victory in May.
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His Twitter feed is regularly filled with self-congratulatory boasts mixed with ad hominem attacks against people and organizations who he believes are insufficiently loyal to him and, by association, the country.
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" It all started when Cameron gave an interview to The Guardian last month and said, "All of the self-congratulatory back-patting Hollywood's been doing over 'Wonder Woman' has been so misguided.
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Still, as Colbert noted, the president has been the biggest TV story of the year, which provided the rationale for occupying a prominent role on TV's biggest and most self-congratulatory night.
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Widodo told reporters he had received congratulatory calls from 22 state leaders, including Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and he had invited his rival to meet.
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On the other hand, hearing a band almost literally piss all over base, self-congratulatory critiques—try searching for the quotable line in "White Privilege Blues," it's not there—is filthily refreshing.
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My colleague Ginia Bellafante, who has written extensively about gender and the city, told me that "the city shouldn't get too self-congratulatory about all of this," referring to the new statues.
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At night, as Mr. Murphy was winding his way through a hotel kitchen toward the stage to deliver his victory speech, he received a congratulatory call from another major Democratic figure, Gov.
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The line may read like a self-congratulatory bit of meta-commentary, like Miike and screenwriter Masaru Nakamura praising themselves for the sheer extremity of the situation they've gotten their characters into.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump spoke with First Minister Of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon on Friday in what Trump's transition team described as "a short congratulatory call" on his election victory last month.
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China's official Xinhua news agency said President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory message to Duterte, saying he was "willing to work with Duterte to push for improvement of relations between the two countries".
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The letter thanked Xi for his congratulatory note on Trump's inauguration and wished the Chinese people a prosperous Lunar New Year of the Rooster, the White House said in a statement on Wednesday.
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I mean, it's a bit smug and self-congratulatory, and it didn't have to go on Foo Fighters' Twitter, but I can get over that because the band from Cornwall are probably stoked.
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That brought an invitation to the FIA's gala awards in St Petersburg last December, a very real trophy and a congratulatory message from five-times world champion Lewis Hamilton, himself a keen gamer.
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Lee, who is Korean American, finds power in characters that are viewed as people first, and not part of the self-congratulatory narrative that can sometimes come with including an actor of color.
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As seen in fan-recorded videos, Adele, 28, holds the microphone for the duo, then proceeds to jump up and down before saying "that's amazing, I'm going to cry" and giving congratulatory hugs.
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On Saturday, Cyrus's 23-year-old brother Braison walked in the luxury Italian design house's fashion show in Milan — his first runway turn — and her post started off with congratulatory words before critique.
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Asked about whether it was wise for Trump to accept a congratulatory telephone call from the president of Taiwan — the sort of conversation every American president since 1979 deliberately has avoided — Blair demurred.
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Since new mom Williams is likely sporting a hospital gown right now, as opposed to a red carpet one, it's likely Beyoncé has been waiting to post her congratulatory announcement for some time.
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And because it's the last of the majors, it's clear America is stuck with the status quo of basically doing nothing and then writing self-congratulatory press statements about how justice was served.
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Davis, 51, received an outpouring of support for her first Oscar win after three nominations, including a congratulatory tweet from Oprah Winfrey, who called the win moments before Davis took to the stage.
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In a congratulatory phone call to Cavaliers Coach Tyronn Lue on Thursday, President Obama made clear that he did not want his successor to get the honor of hosting the 2016 N.B.A. champions.
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When Xi was first appointed five years ago, Pyongyang sent a six-sentence-long congratulatory message that included phrases such as "strength of the mutual leadership, friendship and brotherhood," said Sungkyunkwan University's Kim.
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I've used it to buy last minute congratulatory champagne for a friend's elopement, impromptu getting-ready prosecco in a swanky hotel room, and just so, so much rosé with just a few taps.
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As he reveled in his triumph that night, Biden received a congratulatory call from former President Barack Obama, praising him for his decisive win that would revive his quest to win the presidency.
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Sebastián Piñera, the conservative former president who will take office for a second term this weekend, also issued a congratulatory message on Twitter, but steered clear of making a reference to transgender rights.
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Trump, perhaps inadvertently, had presaged the new U.S. pro-Taiwan impulse by accepting a congratulatory telephone call from President Tsai In-wen after his election, shocking Beijing and the U.S. foreign policy establishment.
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After sharing the exciting news on Instagram, the "Super Bass" rapper, 903, received dozens of congratulatory messages from her celebrity friends, including Christina Aguilera, La La Anthony, and model Winnie Harlow, among others.
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" In a second Twitter message about the call Friday night, Mr. Trump said, "Interesting how the U.S. sells Taiwan billions of dollars of military equipment but I should not accept a congratulatory call.
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"Moulin Rouge!" is the first Broadway blockbuster made for the age of Shazam and TikTok, a giant live quiz where audience members gasp in self-congratulatory appreciation each time they identify a snippet.
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Big City If you follow Andrew Cuomo on Twitter, then you know that during the past week he has been active to the point of presidential in his self-congratulatory social-media output.
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The reboot of Roseanne Barr's family sitcom stormed to the center of the country's culture war last week, as the first episode drew huge ratings and earned a congratulatory call from the president.
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The president showed his proclivity for doing the unorthodox in foreign affairs even before taking office, when he accepted a congratulatory call from Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen after his election in 2016.
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President Donald Trump's speech to the nation Wednesday morning -- confident, self-congratulatory and even triumphal in tone -- presented a dangerous misreading of both the US's leverage and Iran's continued capacity for trouble-making.
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They serve as reminders that her life is no longer broken: a volunteer of the year award, a congratulatory letter on her book from Michelle Obama, a high school diploma from Franklin Academy.
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Lady Gaga ended it with one last strut, up a ramp, and a self-congratulatory gesture that has been used by both rappers and an ex-president: a microphone drop, earned with sweat.
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"La La Land" has become the darling of this self-congratulatory award season: After winning a record seven Golden Globes last month, it is poised to dominate the Oscars, having earned 14 nominations.
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Brief, congratulatory messages flowed quickly from Arab allies, including one from Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz, who wished Trump success in "achieving security and stability in the Middle East and the wider world".
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He talks glowingly about watching Tom Brady win the 20083 Super Bowl — when McVay was 22008 — and revels in getting congratulatory text messages from Patriots Coach Bill Belichick, who is twice his age.
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Both head of states offered Trump their congratulatory messages upon his November election victory but like other governments, fears about increased U.S. protectionism and 'America First' policies have clouded their respective relationships with Washington.
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Like an argument on the social network, it is tedious, seemingly complicated but intellectually underdeveloped, crammed with false facts and exaggerated statistics and features several blowhards who veer between self-righteous and self-congratulatory.
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It's gonna be a long four years: let's try to make our words and intentions matter rather than reaching for the low dopamine rush of trotting out the same insularly congratulatory sentiments for applause.
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A congratulatory video recorded by former Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly played at ceremonies for a few weeks this summer but was pulled when Trump tapped Kelly as White House chief of staff.
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The first incident took place on Friday, when the real-estate billionaire accepted a congratulatory phone call from Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen, a move that broke nearly four decades of U.S foreign policy.
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Last weekend, Schumer performed her first stand-up set since becoming a mother, and while many famous friends supported her with congratulatory messages, she also received criticism from some of her social media followers.
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Bourdain also slammed HBO political talk show host Bill Maher as "the worst of the smug, self-congratulatory left" after being asked about an appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher several years ago.
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Shortly after the pair confirmed the happy news by posting matching photos of themselves snuggling up together as Perry, 34, showed off her unique flower-shaped diamond ring, the congratulatory messages began pouring in.
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There was also a heartfelt congratulatory note from Australia's most recent Grand Slam champion Sam Stosur, the 35-year-old who won the 2011 U.S. Open but was unable to build on that success.
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Trump promised during his campaign to get tough on China, and after the election he broke with nearly four decades of diplomatic precedent by taking a congratulatory phone call from the president of Taiwan.
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Plawecki, who has taken over d'Arnaud's catching duties in the interim, did not specify what the text said, but it was clear from his smile that d'Arnaud had sent a well-deserved congratulatory note.
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Paul was left with six broken ribs following the alleged assault Danica Roem falls to her knees after getting a congratulatory call from former Vice President Joe Biden after her electoral victory on Tuesday.
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The Scandinavian city has emerged as a strong possibility to host the summit, which Trump has pressed aides to organize after he raised the idea during a congratulatory phone call with Putin in March.
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The president issued a slew of other congratulatory messages to Republicans on Wednesday, praising Minnesota GOP candidates Jeff Johnson and Pete Stauber and Wisconsin Republican House candidate Bryan Steil while also endorsing Wisconsin Gov.
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He said that the call was a "congratulatory" one centered on Zelensky's electoral victory in May but that he also raised corruption issues with Zelensky and used the allegations against Biden as an example.
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Clinton "couldn't have been nicer" in a congratulatory call she made to concede the election, and that Bill Clinton had complimented him on "one of the most amazing" presidential runs he had ever seen.
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On opening night, the kids' families and friends, dressed in their theatergoing best and weighed down with congratulatory bouquets of flowers for the young stars, mill around the stage, sensing the children's nervous excitement.
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Though Ms. Pelosi reached out with congratulatory calls and has begun meeting with some of the incoming members, her reception offered an opportunity for several of the new representatives to meet her in person.
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The modest scoop impressed Walter Cronkite, the CBS anchor, enough that he made a congratulatory phone call to the recently hired Ms. Bowser, who credited the incident with elevating her profile at the network.
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Trump endorsed Saccone early on in his speech before returning to the persona that became so familiar in the 21999 election — that of the unscripted, self-congratulatory candidate eager to rile up a crowd.
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The Republican who votes in line with Trump 100% of the time received a congratulatory tweet from the president after she won a competitive runoff after a campaign that was plagued with racial scandal.
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Bloomberg reported Sunday evening that the 85033th president and Biden shared a congratulatory call Saturday evening after Biden's overwhelming victory, where he won nearly 50 percent of the vote over his closest competitor, Sen.
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The 65-year-old Emmy Award winner, who has said she's been friends with Trump for more than two decades, said she received a congratulatory call from the president the day after "Roseanne" premiered.
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Closer to their European home, Trump's chumminess with Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who received a congratulatory phone call from the American president after narrowly winning a referendum solidifying his stranglehold on power, raises eyebrows.
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The president-elect rankled many by accepting a congratulatory phone call from the president of Taiwan, challenging the long-acknowledged One China principle and heightening tensions with the country before he even takes office.
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Since 2009, when the Academy changed Best Picture from a straight popular vote to something much more convoluted (ostensibly to more accurately reflect the Academy's consensus), the winners have gotten much more self-congratulatory.
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As president-elect, Trump broke with protocol and accepted a congratulatory phone call from the Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen in December, angering China, which claims the self-ruled island as integral Chinese territory.
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Sitting by while watching audiences laugh, and take in the Green Book felt like another degree of condescension for the self-congratulatory, Trump-condemning, "colorblind" viewer who consumes their racism with a side of mayo.
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Keep an eye on it: The circumstances and tone of the meeting will be closely watched, especially following the hubbub surrounding Trump's congratulatory call to Erdogan after his victory in last weekend's challenged constitutional referendum.
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Haddix received all sorts of congratulatory notes, but the one that stood out in his mind was a letter from a Texas A&M fraternity, written on university stationery, that read: Dear Harvey, Tough shit.
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Since announcing the arrival of baby girl No. 2, Hope Catherine, on Tuesday's episode of the Today show, Hoda Kotb has received thousands of congratulatory messages and well-wishes from her fans on social media.
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Just as Trump's television show blended roles usually kept separate, fusing the self-congratulatory patter of the talk show host with the performed character of the boss, Trump collapses the roles of sycophant and target.
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The congratulatory posts came far and wide, with her political pals Bernie Sanders and Barack Obama offering well wishes, as A-listers like Oprah Winfrey, Kelly Clarkson, Elizabeth Banks and Tony Bennett did the same.
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And fun the Starling team had, with lots of self-congratulatory re-tweets appearing as fintech industry watchers and Monzo users, who were actually asked to crowdsource the new name, began to notice the prank.
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In his company, the viewer is given a tour of horror that is unnerving both for its harshness and for the sense of slick, self-congratulatory artifice that lurks around the edges of the frame.
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Xi was insistent that Trump publicly endorse the "One China" policy that has long governed US-China ties after Trump broke protocol by taking a congratulatory call from the leader of Taiwan after being elected.
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President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence walked onto the South Lawn of the White House Wednesday to cheers and fist pumps before delivering a congratulatory speech on the passage of the GOP tax bill.
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Earlier, La Nacion had reported comments from an Argentine journalist claiming that Trump had raised the building project — a massive office building in the heart of Buenos Aires — in a congratulatory phone call with Macri.
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They believe that flaunting strength through nuclear and missile tests is aimed at laying the groundwork for a self-congratulatory congress—never mind the disastrous impact such chest-thumping has on the country's foreign relations.
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Her congratulatory remarks come a day after Ocasio-Cortez won election to the House, easily beating GOP opponent Anthony Pappas in a district that encompasses parts of Queens and the Bronx long held by Democrats.
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The press briefing called on Saturday to discuss the first week barely touched on any concerns and instead turned into a 90-minute self-congratulatory pat on the back that dismissed problems as "small issues".
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Labor leaders are enjoying a round of self-congratulatory press, claiming to have survived a Supreme Court ruling that these very leaders, just months earlier, were predicting could spell the end of the labor movement.
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Reynolds' post was poking fun at a tradition that goes back decades, when directors and filmmakers would send congratulatory notes to one another when the record was broken for highest-grossing movies of all time.
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You emphasize that the school's self-congratulatory assumption that the bad guys are always elsewhere, and we would never tolerate this sort of thing, probably makes it still harder for those harmed to come forward.
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And while we are on the topic of relationships, I would note that I will forever be perplexed by the rate of unsolicited and unexpected congratulatory communications from ex-boyfriends after years of no contact.
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As president-elect, he acted in what in a normal world would have been considered a courteous manner by accepting a congratulatory phone call from a fellow democratically-elected president, Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan.
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Relations between the world's two largest economies were shaken in the first days of the Trump era, in December 2016, when Mr. Trump, then the president-elect, accepted a congratulatory phone call from Ms. Tsai.
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But the President's bullish, self-congratulatory rhetoric -- a staple of a presidency that has divided the nation -- is still jarring with the desperate reality of a fast-worsening pandemic that is running out of control.
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At first blush, Mr. Trump's second appearance at the United Nations General Assembly may have seemed like more self-congratulatory bluster, nationalist isolationism and rote genuflection to the altar of sovereignty — much like last year.
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But a loyal following emerged after rave newspaper reviews, growing word of mouth and forgiving or even congratulatory feedback from some of the Broadway celebrities who gamely sat through performances in which they were mocked.
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The bottom line is for those who complain about lectures from Hollywood A-listers -- who would rather awards shows be self-congratulatory, promotional affairs, better off being boring than controversial -- well, this was your night.
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For his part, Frank Biden at first said he had nothing to do with the defunding measure, saying he only got involved after it passed Congress, and only to film the congratulatory video with Abruzzo.
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The astronaut Peggy Whitson, who early Monday surpassed the 534-day record for most time in space by an American, received a congratulatory call about nine hours later from President Trump and his daughter Ivanka.
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Sources in diplomatic missions said most foreign envoys had yet to send congratulatory messages to Rajapaksa as it could be interpreted as legitimising the new government while there were still complaints his appointment was unconstitutional.
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Yet with several more star-studded ceremonies to come, questions linger as to how well Hollywood's awards apparatus can juggle serving as a rallying point for that movement with its more prosaic, self-congratulatory business.
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"Interesting how the US sells Taiwan billions of dollars of military equipment but I should not accept a congratulatory call," Mr. Trump said on Twitter after the stunned reaction to his conversation with Ms. Tsai.
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"It's a crucial time in our existence, with an ever-increasing population and a need for more bioavailable, sustainable sources of nutrition," said Julie Daoust, PhD, VP Product Development & Innovation, in a self-congratulatory statement.
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One nation — China — has seemed ripe for President-elect Trump's first crisis, even before he sent a tremor through diplomatic circles by accepting a congratulatory phone call from the president of Taiwan late last week.
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That call occurred on April 12, shortly after Zelensky won the Ukrainian presidency and was congratulatory in nature, according to Kurt Volker, the former special envoy for Ukraine negotiations whose private depositions were released Tuesday.
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But before his inauguration Mr Trump took a congratulatory telephone call from Ms Tsai, the first time in nearly four decades that a president or president-elect had been in direct contact with a Taiwanese leader.
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The lyrics are self-congratulatory in a way that's off-putting, and don't match up with the fact that he's put himself opposite a woman in the video who acts like nothing more than arm candy.
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Less than an hour after her husband Keith Urban won the coveted Entertainer of the Year award at Wednesday night's CMA Awards in Nashville, the actress, 51, wrote a sweet congratulatory message to him on Instagram.
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Mazdzer became the first U.S. men's singles luge medalist ever and says he can't keep up with the way his phone's been blowing up, mostly with congratulatory DMs ... but some want him to take it off.
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In late June, both channels were trying to facilitate a visit by President Zelensky to the White House for a meeting with President Trump, which President Trump had promised in his congratulatory letter of May 253.
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Putin sent him a congratulatory telegram on the night of the election, and the two spoke by phone soon after, during which they reportedly agreed that the relationship between Russia and the United States is "unsatisfactory."
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In his senior year at Berkshire School, Harrison was named the national high school player of the year (which earned him a brief, congratulatory call from Reyna, who at that point had never heard of him).
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But the cases that jump off these self-congratulatory pages are the ones concerning deaths of children, about which Di Maio is not in the least sentimental, but coolly analytic, which is somehow even more unsettling.
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Her disaffected students mock her at every turn, while the school's administration—led by a Rivers Cuomo–lookalike headmaster (Romain Duris)—conflates her lack of command with a failure to endorse its self-congratulatory liberal values.
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Trump, responding to the immediate groundswell of criticism after the phone call, fired back on Twitter: Interesting how the U.S. sells Taiwan billions of dollars of military equipment but I should not accept a congratulatory call.
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Recognition of this universal truth is why people loved to dunk on a guy inexplicably named "Tripp," who posted a self-congratulatory Instagram post in which he... asked for an award because he loved his wife?
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During his 38 years as the religion editor of Newsweek — a span that ended in 2002 — Kenneth L. Woodward stood as one of the welcome exceptions to the clueless, self-congratulatory secularism of the Fourth Estate.
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Throughout his address, Sanders picked apart Trump's self-congratulatory speech, hammering home his own points about continuing inequality for the poor and middle class, two groups Trump promised to lift up during his campaign for president.
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The situation came to a head in December when president-elect Donald Trump took a congratulatory phone call from Tsai, the first direct contact between the leaders of the U.S. and Taiwan in nearly four decades.
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Thor, whose registered show name is GCHG Diamond Gold Majesu Pisko Bulls, bested thousands of other dogs to earn the top prize — and a congratulatory snack — with help from his handler, Eduardo Paris of Houston, Texas.
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The Hill's Jordan Fabian reports: A furor erupted at the White House on Wednesday over a damaging leak that revealed President Trump defied his aides' advice during a congratulatory phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Last week, Trump sent his own Russia-related tweets, defending a congratulatory phone call with President Vladimir Putin after he won a March 18 landslide re-election that some watchdog groups and dissidents have called illegitimate.
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In their first congratulatory phone calls to Mr. Trump after his electoral victory, both President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany emphasized the need to keep the Iran deal in place.
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In December, Taiwan briefly celebrated a diplomatic coup when Trump, then president-elect, took a congratulatory phone call from Tsai and raised questions about whether he would stick with the four-decade-old "one China" policy.
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In late June, both channels were trying to facilitate a visit by President Zelenskyy to the White House for a meeting with President Trump, which President Trump had promised in his congratulatory letter of May 253.
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Don't be surprised if some of these tweets show up in your "in case you missed it" feed Tuesday: It seems like they patched things up after the election -- Trump was pleased with Romney's congratulatory call.
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His words on the military alliance sounded a bit more optimistic than usual, but it turns out that Trump's good cheer about NATO mainly served to make a self-congratulatory claim of leadership that isn't true.
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Trump has already signaled an aggressive posture toward China, bucking decades of US foreign policy by taking a congratulatory call from the president of Taiwan, and sending a series of bellicose tweets about currency devaluation and tariffs.
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After New England pulled off one of the most epic comebacks in Super Bowl history, the NFL commissioner found Brady among the post-game media mob, offering his hand in a congratulatory gesture between the former adversaries.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China is willing to appropriately handle disputes with South Korea on the basis of mutual understanding and trust, Chinese President Xi Jinping said in a congratulatory message to new South Korean president Moon Jae-in.
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SEOUL, Oct 18 (Reuters) - North Korea sent a congratulatory message to China's 19th Congress of its Communist Party on Wednesday, amid increasingly frayed relationships between the traditional allies, as China tightens sanctions over Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programme.
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Hong Kong (CNN)US President Donald Trump has written to his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, according to the White House, the first contact the two leaders have had since Xi sent a congratulatory note for the inauguration.
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Pena Nieto's congratulatory call Saturday morning stressed Mexico's willingness to work on an agenda that would benefit both countries, according to his office, as well as the need to focus on respect for sovereignty and shared responsibility.
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The last time David Backes was on the ice with the St. Louis Blues, he was leading the line for a congratulatory handshake following a loss to the San Jose Sharks in last season's Western Conference finals.
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In these troubling times, will they seek solace in the past with the self-congratulatory "La La Land", or will they choose to amplify the voices of the sidelined with a view to a more inclusive future?
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The Education Department, which released a congratulatory statement from DeVos within hours of Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate accord, did not respond to five requests for comment from BuzzFeed News on Tuesday and Wednesday.
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Though its music, and use of Mapplethorpe's photographs and texts by Essex Hemphill and Patti Smith were impressive in their own rights, the performance Triptych (Eyes of One on Another) ultimately appeared cheap, forced, and self-congratulatory.
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Following the family style dinner of Meli Melo, truffle pizza, King Crab Legs, and Octopus, the couple were surprised with a congratulatory cake with the inscription "Congratulations Scott & Sophia," and they were captured making out on camera.
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As the post-gig sweat clinging to Talbot's T-shirt turns icy in the Brooklyn night and he exhales clouds of vanilla-pudding vapor, he stops to accept handshakes and congratulatory slaps on the back from fans.
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While Trump and his team have downplayed the call as merely congratulatory, it is being interpreted around the world as a sign that the president-elect intends to change U.S. policy toward Taiwan in defiance of China.
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Hours after Mike Pompeo was confirmed as the 70th secretary of state, Press Secretary Sarah Sanders sent out a congratulatory tweet with new photos of him shaking hands with Kim Jong-un from their Easter weekend meeting.
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"He has sent (Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez) a congratulatory letter stating his confidence in the Spanish government to continue to contribute in a constructive manner to a stronger, more united and fairer European Union," the spokeswoman said.
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"I did some things that nobody would ever advise a campaign," Mr. Gillum said with a laugh on Wednesday, the day after his improbable victory, which he spent making cable news appearances and fielding congratulatory phone calls.
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And while Shoplifters may be an important exception with its spotlight on poverty, Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo ignored its success, not even giving Kore-eda a congratulatory call — most likely because of the movie's social themes.
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The conversation I had was largely congratulatory, was largely corruption -- all of the corruption taking place, was largely the fact that we don't want our people like Vice President Biden and his son (adding to the corruption).
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American officials had hoped that Turkey would soften its stance after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan won a referendum this month that greatly increased his executive powers, a victory that brought a congratulatory phone call from President Trump.
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Steven Rattner On MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Thursday, I presented charts explaining that while President Trump has been dispatching self-congratulatory tweets about his economic stewardship, he has little to brag about, apart from the stock market.
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Kuczynski, a 77-year-old former investment banker who won the Andean country's tight runoff race earlier this month, said he mentioned his worries about a Trump presidency to U.S. President Barack Obama on a congratulatory phone call.
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"It made me think like I really made it but at the same time I thought this should not be the end," Yun said when asked about how he felt after receiving a congratulatory message from the president.
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A three-part tweet from India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi is, to the best of my knowledge, the warmest and the friendliest congratulatory message that Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States, received from foreign leaders.
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Those two product launches effectively created the current mainstream social media experience: timelines full of congratulatory posts, political squabbles, ads, intimate celebrity encounters, ads, publishers promoting content and brands injecting themselves everywhere as an alternative to just ads.
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" He also carefully addressed Trump's decision to take a congratulatory phone call from the president of Taiwan, a nation that has not enjoyed direct contact with an American president since 1979 under the U.S. policy of "One China.
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Mr Sorjonen said that the government should not be too self-congratulatory as the economy had been boosted by strong eurozone growth in countries such as Germany, and a weaker euro, which has helped manufacturing across the continent.
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Perhaps the most emotional part of Woods' win came minutes after he sunk his final putt at Georgia's Augusta National when his son Charlie — wearing a matching red shirt and black hat — gave his father a congratulatory embrace.
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"At the request of the office of the Vietnamese Ambassador to the U.S., Mr. Kasowitz provided a telephone contact that the Vietnamese could use to try to arrange a congratulatory call to President-elect Trump," the spokesman said.
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Sadiq who has just returned to practice after a long injury, aiming to take part in the upcoming World Cup, said the Taliban usually send them congratulatory messages through social media and on his cellphone when Afghanistan win.
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"Anybody with a heart would feel strongly about it," Trump said at the time, and he got a congratulatory tweet from his daughter Ivanka as if he had nothing to do with the practice in the first place.
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By Rafael Romo Australia's Malcolm Turnbull -- UP Turnbull made headlines over his strained phone conversation with Trump earlier this year, which the newly minted US President described as the worst he'd had in a day of congratulatory calls.
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Trump kept the tone self-congratulatory as he touted a gutting of a crucial element of Obamacare – the individual mandate – as a way to give relief to low income Americans who didn't want to pay for health care.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China wants to deepen mutually beneficial cooperation with the Maldives, President Xi Jinping said in a congratulatory message to the newly elected Maldivian president, the leader of an opposition that has vowed to review Chinese projects.
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When the congresswomen erupted in wild, self-congratulatory applause and high-fives, Trump seemed startled at the unintended consequences of his remarks, not unlike his surprise over being laughed at by delegates at the United Nations in September.
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It is, though, a fair criticism: Particularly with Weinstein, left-leaning outlets, activists, and celebrities have long tolerated, among their own self-congratulatory ranks, behavior that they would immediately decry if perpetuated by a Republican or the religious.
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Trump campaigned on a promise to confront China more aggressively on trade and broke with decades of precedent last month by taking a congratulatory telephone call from the president of Taiwan, which Beijing sees as part of China.
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Mr. Bercow, known for his booming voice and his hyperarticulate, theatrical style, squeezed in a typically polysyllabic farewell as he gave way to a deluge of congratulatory speeches, referring only glancingly to the political chaos that may await.
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Trump broke with decades of precedent last month by taking a congratulatory telephone call from Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen, and he has also said the "One China" policy was up for negotiation, a position Beijing strongly rejected.
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When David Woo got to work at Bank of America Merrill Lynch on the morning after the election, the most he was expecting was, perhaps, some congratulatory handshakes for predicting the market rally that followed Donald Trump's stunning victory.
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What quickly turned into a congratulatory speech about the resurgence of America's Motor City began with a few words about the tragedy in Flint, where 4 percent of the children have been poisoned with lead in the city's water.
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Remember that Trump took a congratulatory call from Taiwan's president and on the same day Trump met with Ma, a state-run Chinese tabloid warned that China would "take revenge" if Trump backed out of the one-China policy.
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In just the past few days, for example, we learned that a so-called congratulatory -- and highly controversial -- call Trump took from Taiwan's leader was anything but a matter of shooting from the hip by a team of amateurs.
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Despite not winning either of the Grammys she was nominated for (Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance), she shared a video of herself freaking out about a congratulatory note from Bono that she received backstage at the event.
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Early this month, Ford CEO Mark Fields announced the automaker was scrubbing the $1.6 billion plant, triggering self-congratulatory tweeting by Trump, even though Ford officials publicly noted they were still planning to move small car production to Mexico.
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"In addition to enacting harmful policies, the current administration has failed to support commonsense reforms needed to improve the lives of hardworking Americans and protect our way of life," Daines wrote in a congratulatory letter to Trump on Tuesday.
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The "Trump Tower" project near Buenos Aires' central obelisk made international headlines after a local news report said Trump mentioned the proposed office complex when Argentine President Mauricio Macri put in a congratulatory call to Trump after his Nov.
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On Wednesday morning, Mr. Cruz strolled through a diner here, taking a seat at patrons' tables, filming a congratulatory video for the graduating seniors of Ball State University in Muncie, and grilling the residents on their breakfasts of choice.
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President Trump defended on Wednesday his congratulatory call to Russian President Vladimir Putin, reiterating his belief that, "Getting along with Russia... is a good thing," and adding that his "energy and chemistry" with Putin will allow for constructive relations.
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ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) - The White House stopped short of congratulating Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday, saying his re-election victory was no surprise and that there was no congratulatory phone call scheduled with President Donald Trump.
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"All said it was a good, congratulatory call, that they discussed the importance of fighting corruption and promoting reform in Ukraine, and that President Trump reiterated his invitation to President Zelensky to visit the White House," Mr. Volker said.
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Over the course of her reign, the report states that the Queen has sent 269,2000 "congratulatory telegrams to centenarians on their 291th birthdays" as well as 2000,0003 messages to couples celebrating their "Diamond Wedding anniversaries," which is 2000 years.
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In a telephone interview, Atul Chordia, one of the developers who met last week with Mr. Trump, played down the appointment as a "two-minute" congratulatory conversation in which no business was transacted and no new projects were discussed.
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Moreover, it wants to be a victory lap, an homage to the best Call of Duty game, and a title that gleefully gestures toward the franchise's past successes with all the self-congratulatory pleasure of a Star Wars sequel.
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Trump broke years of U.S. diplomatic tradition as president-elect by accepting a congratulatory telephone call from Tsai on his surprise election win, clashing with the one China policy that Beijing regards as the basis of U.S.-Chinese relations.
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The expulsions come just a week after Russian President Vladimir Putin won re-election and Trump's congratulatory phone call in which he is reported to have failed to mention the London attack or Russian meddling in the U.S. election.
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Merkel has not given her official congratulations to Putin, although government spokesman Steffen Seibert said Monday that Merkel would send Putin a congratulatory telegram that would "address the challenges we face in German-Russian relations," Deutsche Welle reported Monday.
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After Trump tweeted a defense of his congratulatory phone call with Putin that included digs at his White House predecessors, Schiff tweeted that the previous three presidents did not need their staff to tell them to not congratulate Putin.
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Thus, in addition to the opening number satirizing Hollywood's self-congratulatory attitude with regards to diversity, Che embarked on a "Reparations Emmys" tour of black comic TV legends from past decades, including Marla Gibbs, Jimmie Walker, and Kadeem Hardison.
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Outside director and chief executive of Nidec Corp Shigenobu Nagamori struck a note of dissent at a broadly congratulatory shareholders meeting, saying that he thought Son had massively overpaid for chip designer ARM Holdings, bought for $33 billion dollars last year.
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Qualcomm today published a somewhat self-congratulatory blog post that lauds the company and its Android partners for achieving a series of industry firsts that include wireless charging, dual-camera systems, OLED smartphone screens, edge-to-edge displays, and more.
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He took a congratulatory call on Friday night from Taiwan's leader and followed that a few days later with a couple of tweets aimed at China about its currency devaluation, taxes on imports and maneuvering in the South China Sea.
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History shows that cooperation is the best choice for both China and the United States, Chinese President Xi Jinping told U.S. President Donald Trump in a congratulatory message on Tuesday to mark 40 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations.
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But it's the way that the coalition of cable companies is going about doing it — a mix of petty marketing and overly congratulatory messaging that the current state of broadband is already fine — that leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
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"When I'm awake at 4 o'clock in the morning, I'll read all these," he told the 7- and 8-year-old students from Bayards Hill Primary school, who had made 60 congratulatory cards for him, Meghan Markle and little Archie.
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Photo courtesy of Dine AloneThe only thing more tired and toothless than people saying Ottawa is a lifeless government town is a self-congratulatory take juxtaposing a particularly ~ edgy~ or ~ fun~ piece of the city against the broader Boring Ottawa®.
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And then there's Hollywood's affinity for getting lost in the safe space of navel-gazing at its own reflection, and slapping self-congratulatory Best Picture prizes on films about making art: Birdman over Selma, or The Artist ahead of The Help.
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The tweets also came as Trump strained relations with China on Friday by accepting a congratulatory phone call from Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen, breaking almost four decades of U.S. foreign policy that has acknowledged Taiwan is part of China.
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It was in witnessing a congratulatory announcement of the referees at the Seattle Dojo that I became interested in understanding the makings of a judo referee, and how that process related, if at all, to the actual art being arbitrated.
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According to Delish, Dole tweeted out a congratulatory message to the couple that celebrated both their engagement and their (still unconfirmed) choice to go with a banana cake in hopes that they might be able to craft the sugary creation.
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Donald Trump has been elected as the 45th president of the United States and while congratulatory messages are pouring in from across the globe, banks and financial institutions across the world are scrambling to understand what it means for them.
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In fact, when Moore the choreographer, who yes, taught Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone to tapdance, was nominated for an Emmy Award for her work on Dancing With The Stars, Moore the actress received congratulatory emails from understandably mistaken well wishers.
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Over at The Daily Beast, Ryan lobbies a similar criticism, referring to Pantsuit Nation as "slacktivism," and shaming Pantsuit posters for performing symbolic, self-congratulatory acts of activism — even going so far as to compare the group to a Dove Commercial.
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The A Star Is Born actor told Oprah Winfrey on an episode of Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations that will air February 16 that he heard the Oscar news via a congratulatory text from a friend while he was in a coffee shop.
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They traffic on this stuff, this self-congratulatory posturing where the world is better off because sportspeople sport sports, a get-out-of-jail-free card for nearly any wrong they could possibly commit because they're bringing the world precious sports.
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Or so was the case on Wednesday when the Keeping Up with the Kardashians reality star brought sister Kim Kardashian West a bag of McDonald's as a congratulatory gift for her husband Kanye West's well-received Yeezy season 5 NYFW show.
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The interminable self-congratulatory awards slog that is the Oscars is trying to do right by you, the viewer, and has decided to shift its mind-numbing, never-ending extravaganza of dresses and "SPEECHABLE MOMENTS" back a whole half-hour earlier.
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Prime Minster John Key appeared on morning television Tuesday, saying that Trump had tried to call him, either to return Key's earlier congratulatory phone call or to offer his support after earthquakes rocked the upper South Island region this week.
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Last year, the rapper wrote a poem entitled "The McDonald's Man" for Frank Ocean's zine, and in February, after his Yeezy Season 5 NYFW show, Kanye's sister-in-law Kendall Jenner brought him some congratulatory fast food from the chain.
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The "Trump Tower" project near Buenos Aires' central obelisk made headlines this week after local news reports said that Trump mentioned the proposed office complex when Argentine President Mauricio Macri put in a congratulatory call to Trump after his Nov.
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The Times' scoop emerged the same day that Talking Points Memo surfaced a prominent Argentine journalist's report that Trump used a customary, congratulatory call with President Mauricio Macri of Argentina to push support for a building project underway in Buenos Aires.
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Instead, Weekend Update and the cold opens are the two spaces where SNL gets blatantly political, and the show keeps leaning on smug, self-congratulatory liberalism, taking easy potshots at Republicans that make conservatives righteously angry and are stupidly one-dimensional.
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Let's lean on that "possibly": Even if you suspend your disbelief from some very sturdy rigging, the likelihood that Mr. Soleimanpour will actually kill off a cluster of Tony nominees seems slim, which gives the play a deceitful, self-congratulatory vibe.
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But this time, she and Senator Mitch McConnell even exchanged a congratulatory high-five as an attempt to strip the drilling plan from the tax bill failed just before the Senate approved its version of the legislation early on Dec. 20103.
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" In his own congratulatory message, President Moon Jae-in of South Korea said the partnership between his country and the United States has been "the foundation for peace and stability and paved the way for South Korea's democratization and economic growth.
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After the season 63 Bachelorette and her pro partner Alan Bersten took home the Mirrorball Trophy on Monday's night finale of Dancing with the Stars, several stars from the franchise flooded Brown's Instagram post about the win with congratulatory messages.
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Sure, the Grammys are still too long and too self-congratulatory, and sure, there is now compelling evidence that they are at least somewhat corrupt — but nonetheless, these live performances are something the Oscars and Emmys can never quite match.
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At the risk of being self-congratulatory, let me just say that part of what we're trying to do with these conversations is model a certain kind of discourse — disagreement minus nastiness — that we could all use a little more of.
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Roz went to Midwood (while I went to Erasmus) and then Rhode Island School of Design, so we lost touch, although there was a brief letter exchange after she became a New Yorker cartoonist — she responded warmly to my congratulatory letter.
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Of the 20,000 people eligible to receive paid parental leave since the city's program became active at the end of 2015, only 436 have redeemed the benefit, making the ratio of self-congratulatory rhetoric to practical impact uncomfortably out of balance.
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SEOUL/BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping replied to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's congratulatory message on China's Communist Party Congress, saying he hopes to promote ties between the two countries, North Korea's state news agency said on Thursday.
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Cover image: Carol Miller receives a congratulatory phone call from Congressman Steve Stivers (R-OH) after speaking with the media following being elected to the U.S. House in West Virginia's 3rd congressional district over Democrat Richard Ojeda on Tuesday, Nov.
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The dessert left us wondering what in the world the pair was being congratulated for and one theory, which was supported by a TMZ source, was that the congratulatory plate was in celebration of the couple finally deciding to make their relationship official.
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Congratulatory statements from world leaders across the globe began trickling in after it was announced that centrist Emmanuel Macron won the French presidential runoff, even from those who aligned more ideologically with his opponent, the far-right National Front's Marine Le Pen.
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Now that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been married for almost two months, there was only one thing left for the couple to do — thank everybody who sent the couple a congratulatory letter or card in honor of their big day.
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SEOUL, Nov 2 (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping replied to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's congratulatory message on China's recently completed Communist Party Congress, saying he hopes to promote ties between the two countries, North Korea's official news agency KCNA said.
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As younger people abandon cable and these kinds of self-congratulatory spectacle shows, producers have more and more incentive to keep their jokes middle-of-the-road and their satire comically toothless, even when it bites down as hard as it can.
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Trump was self-congratulatory about avoiding any mention of Bill Clinton's affairs during the debate Monday, but his campaign is now urging supporters this week to raise Hillary Clinton's treatment of the women involved as a salient talking point in the 2016 election.
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A tepid congratulatory message from German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, to the president-elect was peppered with explicit references to non-discriminatory values which she made clear she expects Trump to respect in order to foster a "close cooperation" between the two countries.
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It was past midnight and as excited as everyone was to learn which film took top prize at the 89th Academy Awards Ceremony, plenty of people were also tired, and ready for the three-and-a-half self-congratulatory marathon to end.
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The talented 12-year-old singer-songwriter has already received flowers from Taylor Swift and congratulatory tweets from the likes of Katy Perry, Ellen DeGeneres and Reese Witherspoon, but VanderWaal has maintained that Jason Mraz, 39, is one of her biggest inspirations.
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Players and coaches on the World Series-winning team were divided about Wednesday's congratulatory meet-and-greet with the polarizing president, though several of the 10 players who planned to skip the event declined to explain why when asked about the subject.
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The question follows a report that the president-elect used a congratulatory call from the Argentine president to push for a stalled building project in the country, though a spokesman for President Mauricio Macri denied there was any discussion of the project.
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The real estate tycoon has made unforced errors, including racially charged statements about a federal judge and a response to the Orlando massacre that was widely panned by Republicans for its self-congratulatory tone and implication that President Obama is sympathetic to terrorists.
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It's the publication day of her latest collection, Magical Negro, and despite a constant flood of congratulatory text messages, tweets, and DMs from friends, family, and fans, she sits with her iPhone face down against the table as if it were non-existent.
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From the moment Trump raised the potential for a meeting during a congratulatory phone call to Putin in March, top national security staff argued there was little evidence a sit-down would prove effective, particularly given Moscow's continued efforts to destabilize Western alliances.
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The Post offers a parallel account, illustrated with a striking story about a conversation with the leader of one of America's most important allies: As he jetted to Paris last Friday, President Trump received a congratulatory phone call aboard Air Force One.
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Amy KlobucharAmy Jean KlobucharCastro qualifies for next Democratic primary debates Eight Democratic presidential hopefuls to appear in CNN climate town hall Biden, Buttigieg bypassing Democratic delegate meeting: report MORE (Minn.) all pointed to the historic nature of Lightfoot's victory in their congratulatory tweets.
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Since 1979, the United States has acknowledged Taiwan as part of "one China" but Trump prompted a diplomatic protest from Beijing after he accepted a congratulatory phone call on his election win from President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan on Dec. 2.
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They had to acknowledge the systemic misogyny of the entertainment industry and at least pay lip service to making a difference going forward — and, with the Golden Globes being a Hollywood event, they had to do so while being self-congratulatory and glitzy.
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He shocked Beijing and like-thinking members of the foreign policy establishment when he courteously treated Tsai's congratulatory post-election phone call as the routine expression of good wishes from a fellow head of government, and a democratically-elected president at that.
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Further timely Reed birdies came after the turn to quell a fightback by the European duo as he drained 10-footers on 14 and 15, the last of them prompting a congratulatory pat on the back from U.S. vice-captain Tiger Woods.
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More and more musicians are already performing (with or without a paycheck) via live streams, where they may not hear any applause but can at least enjoy a congratulatory text, or a stream of appreciative hearts in the corner of a screen.
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A spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Monday that the government had "serious concern" about Mr. Trump's remarks, renewing a debate that erupted nine days ago when he took a congratulatory phone call from President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan.
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