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Example sentences for: applauding

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The liberal Observer wrestled Sunday with the logic of applauding the arrest of 83-year-old Chilean Gen.
-- Donald Kendall, the man who brought Pepsi Cola to the Soviet Union, applauding the transition to capitalism
While applauding co-pilot Brian Jones for overachieving, the media concluded in retrospect that the pilot, Bertrand Piccard, had been destined for greatness, since his grandfather was the first man to reach the stratosphere (in a balloon in 1931) and his father had attained the oceans' lowest depth (35,000 feet).
Newsweek congratulates New York for its remarkable comeback, applauding its falling crime rate, cleanliness, swinging nightlife, and entrepreneurial immigrants.
The Times quotes DOJ antitrust chief Joel Klein applauding the development.