One of the marshals gave him a discreet pat on the back on the way out.
Wells Fargo deserves a hesitant pat on the back for helping its depositors save time.
These groups should give themselves a pat on the back as concerns the Jewish vote.
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Quite honestly, it felt like a pat on the back for being in the groove.
Montenegro gets a special pat on the back for its fight against organised crime.
They have worked too hard, they have sacrificed too much for a patronizing pat on the back.
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But what happened to Global Frequency may someday mean more than a pat on the back from Web dorks.
"I'm not here for the sympathy or the pat on the back, " Mr Heslin told a panel of senators.
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Everyone loves a good pat on the back, but the goal of my first Forbes column is not self-congratulatory.
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Pat on the back time, guess who outgrew the LCD market last year?
If any one company deserves a pat on the back for making tablets more accessible in 2012, it's Google.
In America's most recent human-trafficking report, published in June, Cambodia and Thailand were given an apparent pat on the back.
So, when you receive a compliment, believe it, and take it for what it is: A verbal pat on the back.
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"Records are great, they are a pat on the back, but when you are out there playing it doesn't matter, " said Lehmann.
The dead rise from the field, some with the help of hand, followed by a pat on the back for putting on a good show.
The Food and Drug Administration gave Hologic a pat on the back Monday, but instead of rising shares of the medical devices company tripped on the development.
"Give yourselves a pat on the back, shake each other's hand, hug each other, cry a little bit and then go celebrate, " said NASA Administrator Charles Bolden Jr.
"When he was getting out of the truck he hugged me and held me and I could still feel that hug and pat on the back, " he said, breaking down.
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Given Benitez's notoriously testy relationship with United manager Alex Ferguson, he could be forgiven for giving himself a quiet pat on the back for sending the FA Cup competition's most successful side packing from Stamford Bridge.
What it ought to be about, say the NAHT, is sharing best practice, giving a pat on the back to those who are succeeding and ensuring that the capacity is there to help those schools that are not.
One Saturday while the boss was away his deputy made major changes to the paper to report a train crash and an air disaster, and reasonably expected to be given a pat on the back for his efforts.
Even then, when David was a boy, allowed to sit beside Dr. Hart, to sip at the wine if he wanted to, to receive an occasional fond pat on the back, he had recognized the difference between Dr. Hart and those others.
"Having someone there to talk to, to share because it can be isolating, and if you have very young children at home and you're the only one there, a lot of times you do feel like you're alone and having someone come in and kind of help you out and give you a pat on the back is nice, " she says.
Should the absence of half their lineup and the general infirmity of the remaining half sink the Yankees' season, you'll be able to get tickets just behind the dugouts on the cheap and pat yourself on the back for being the kind of true fan who sits through all nine innings of a 10-run blowout.
Going a step further, why has nobody on the Street begun to pat themselves on the back for making a monster call (18 of 29 sell-side analysts rate Home Depot at a buy or overweight)?
They slay the dreamer, pat him on the back and hope he goes away.
Along the way, pat yourself on the back for taking your company to higher levels of profitability.
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