Sentences with phrase «pat yourself on the back as»

When Lindy's Pride won in 1969, harness racing gave itself a pat on the back as a truly democratic sport.

Reward your child with praise, good words, smiles, and a pat on the back as often as you can.

Is that enough for Deadpool to pat himself on the back as if he'd, say, spent the last 10 decades pumping out movies like Marvel?

But you rarely see the paper - shufflers get as much ink or as many pats on the back as you do in schooling.

Give yourself a big pat on the back as it looks like Doug Fehan got the most votes for the «From the Fans» awards.

These sacrifices would not even feel like sacrifices and we certainly wouldn't pat ourselves on the back as martyrs.

Take a moment and celebrate; pat yourself on the back as you acknowledge that much of your career competition didn't make it this far.

Re / Max pats itself on the back as a trailblazer for bringing innovations to our industry, but in my opinion, bringing independent contracting to real estate has proven to be the cause of the single biggest failure of our industry in the past 25 years.

The next time you are out and about in the fresh air give yourself a healthy pat on the back as you are increasing your life span dramatically.

Not exact matches

A graph of your achievements, with the line going up, is just as good as a pat on the back from the boss.»

Simply giving employees a pat on the back for a job well done can make them feel appreciated as well as encourage them to continue doing what they do well.

Whereas when you know that when banks — and this is where the Bank of England must deserve a big pat on the back from people like ourselves that they came out and publicly said, as a highly respected official organization, banks create money when they lend, and, therefore, as well as providing --

As far as «patting myself on the back»..As far as «patting myself on the back»..as «patting myself on the back»....

3) Now pat yourself on the back, while hugging fourteen fuzzy kittens and slowly licking your self - righteous sweat as it slowly slides from your brow to your spacebar... YOU EARNED IT!

Take 10 minutes from patting yourself on the back and take a look at my blog / websites, and / or my comments on other threads here, and you'll be quickly disabused of the notion that I treat the Scriptures «as though they are written directly to 20th Century A.D. Americans» (For what it's worth, I'm not American, so why would I do such a thing).

And the people keep coming every sunday for that little spiritual hit, that pat on the back and the message they want to hear «You are special, any bad deeds weren't your fault as you can blame them on Satan, and you get to live for eternity at the universal creators side, all for just a fiver...»

We can all pat each other on the back for our tolerance, and love motivated response, as witness the death of many a church which tried to take a stand against gay activism.

It's the little snacking present I give to myself as a pat on the back for cooking.

Today I followed your recipe and have just patted myself on the back after taking the lid off, as it looks just the same as yours!!

I am patting myself on the back for trying it again, as I enjoyed one of the most satisfying restaurant meals in recent memory.

Lightly dip the reserved chunks of cupcake into the remaining Kahlúa mixture, and pat back on top of the filling, as you can see on the left.

This time Eloy had the big grin on his face as he patted me on the back, like, nice try kid.

And just when you're ready to pat yourself on the back for a good job done, you realize that you're slogging away, trying to squeeze every last drop of milk as though the survival of the entire human race, nay the entire universe depends on it.

He nods and smiles absently as teammates stroll by and pat him on the back.

However on this point we must also give a pat on the back to Arsene Wenger as he has at least not signed a player just for the sake of signing.

As a side note — we just walked Man Utd's very expensive attack back to their play pen, locked the door and patted them on the head... without Koscielny.

Greene sat down on a concrete curb and wept while the coach patted his back as if calming his own child.

Not to pat myself on the back here or anything, but they made me look a little smart for adding them in the Power Rankings last week as the only team who did not win in Week 1.

6 - 3, 6 - 2 i think and now 6 - 0 is a score that you see when the top three play crystal palace, fulham and norwich and probably cardiff but for a top four side its a disgrace of a highest level, not sure if wenger see it that way as he still gets his fat salary in the bank and pat's on his back from the greedy board members and the stupid wenger lovers.

The dad has crashed out and fallen sound asleep in his chair when the baby starts crying, and the dad does not wake up, but he starts patting the air and soothing the imaginary baby, as though the baby were laying on his chest and he was trying to comfort it back to sleep.

We can combine mothering through breastfeeding with all of these work activities but we will always feel guilty about it, so you mine as well stay positive, look in the mirror and pat yourself on the back.

When they don't — meaning, when the staff doesn't pat them on the back for their decision and assure them that resulting trainwreck had nothing to do with being at home, they take it as the staff being «unsupportive.»

Yet, as much as the announcement produced audible applause all through the Twittersphere, the repeated headlines and pats on the back have highlighted a rarity that shouldn't be one at all: a woman successfully navigating the career ladder with a baby on the way.

As you get to know your baby's sleep patterns, you may find that you can catch him as he cycles into an active sleep phase and gently ease him back to sleep by lightly patting him on his back or with a quiet shushing noise before he fully wakes uAs you get to know your baby's sleep patterns, you may find that you can catch him as he cycles into an active sleep phase and gently ease him back to sleep by lightly patting him on his back or with a quiet shushing noise before he fully wakes uas he cycles into an active sleep phase and gently ease him back to sleep by lightly patting him on his back or with a quiet shushing noise before he fully wakes up.

He'll naturally back up, and then you can reward him with a treat, such as praise, a pat on the head, or a small biscuit.

To this day (21 months) she goes to sleep at night and for naptime on her own with not so much as a pat on the back.

You can burp the baby by slightly patting on the babies back as this will help in releasing the air.

As if having to read about the world's problems isn't enough, social media means that we constantly have to pat each other on the back and say «good for you, you care.»

The early portion of his speech spent some time patting himself on the back for good news (as I've said previously, this is normal behavior by politicians, who take more credit and receive more blame for news than they deserve).

Washington (CNN)-- That warm and fuzzy feeling lawmakers had on Capitol Hill last week for doing their jobs and finally passing a budget continued into the weekend, as the architects of the deal patted each other on the back for a job well done.

«Lawmakers should not rush through bills as part of the budget supposedly in the name of standing up for survivors — that's not progress, it's a pat on the back.»

CITY HALL — As Gov. Andrew Cuomo patted himself and fellow state lawmakers on the back after reaching an early deal on the state budget Sunday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg slammed the cuts as «an outrage» and warned that, despite some restorations to city aid, the deal will force more layoffs and another round of new and painful cutAs Gov. Andrew Cuomo patted himself and fellow state lawmakers on the back after reaching an early deal on the state budget Sunday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg slammed the cuts as «an outrage» and warned that, despite some restorations to city aid, the deal will force more layoffs and another round of new and painful cutas «an outrage» and warned that, despite some restorations to city aid, the deal will force more layoffs and another round of new and painful cuts.

«Praising them with the correct intonation can work just as well as other rewards like food or a pat on the back.»

Agre: And as much as I like some of my previous jobs, I can't say that in the vice chancellor's position at Duke, I came to work very often and people patted me on the back; it was more like being chairman of the complaints department at Macy's.

It's the ironic fate of prophets that if they're listened to, and disaster is averted as a result, they rarely get a pat on the back.

«Having those numbers is like getting a pat on the back for your efforts — especially as runs start to feel easier,» says Elizabeth Corkum, a senior coach at Mile High Run Club in New York City.

With your hands relaxed at your sides and with feet a shoulder - width apart, simply start swinging your arms right then left, patting both hands on your lower back as they reach around.

For the final day of October, I wanted to do a round up of all of the blog posts that I have posted this month as I am quite proud of my consistency during this very busy time — pat on the back to myself.

You need to pat yourself on the back, hon.. As for fashion blogging and shopping, actually, there are blogs that do capsule shopping which is you buy a small number of items each season and that's it.

I'm patting myself on the back right now as I actually have some of these things, ha!