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6 total sentences available.
A while back on this page we made a congratulational note to the effect that we had never in any student council election campaign heard a single candidate “smear” his opponent, a practice that is common in adult political campaigns.
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On May 8, 1951, the Board of Directors adopted two resolutions which were congratulational messages to the National Bureau of Standards and the British Standards Institution on their 50th anniversary.
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On such occasions it customary for someone like me to say a few things informational, a few things inspirational, and perhaps a few things “congratulational.”
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Aside from the oh-what-a-good-boy-am-I self congratulational aspect of the statement, it is worth noting that this is being done at the age of 49, without a prior high school education and with an evaluation at the age of eleven that determined me to be borderline retarded.
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