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With Community's Ken Jeong hosting — reason enough to tune in — TV's latest back-patting music extravaganza honors Beyonce with the Billboard Millenium Award for career achievement.
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Judging from the cheer-leading and back-patting from his acolytes, he was temporarily successful.
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At the end of the day, with lots of back-patting and hugs, TOMS hopes that more people will buy more of their shoes to be sent to countries around the world.
Tom Murphy: A Day Without Dignity: A Counter Campaign Tom Murphy 2011
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At the end of the day, with lots of back-patting and hugs, TOMS hopes that more people will buy more of their shoes to be sent to countries around the world.
Tom Murphy: A Day Without Dignity: A Counter Campaign Tom Murphy 2011
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It's fine to be the most blinged-out music show in the country, with the splashy set pieces and background dancers, but maybe less self-congratulatory back-patting from the judges for now.
Why The X Factor Bloodbath Is Good News — And Hopefully Just a Starting Point 2012
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Despite a significant amount of back-patting (Simmons congratulated the city effusively for reducing greenhouse gas emissions 7 percent below 1990 levels in 2008, “which is a fabulous achievement”) and optimism (the phrase “sustainable prosperity” came up over and over), it was unclear what, exactly, the city plans to do to achieve its ambitious carbon goal.
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The revamped Brits were styled as a music-centric event rather than the bacchanalian back-patting exercise of the past.
Brit awards 2011: Take That win best British group 21 years after their debut 2011
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Others, not reassured by Clinton drop-bys and ineffectual back-patting, have begun to explore their own nuclear option.
Iran Sanctions Are Failing. What's Next? Danielle Pletka 2010
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Among all the hoopla and back-patting after Sunday's vote, it is important to remember that real success in reducing the steady rise of health costs won't be evident for years.
Finally--Hope for Controlling Health Costs Kathleen Madigan 2010
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Among all the hoopla and back-patting after Sunday's vote, it is important to remember that real success in reducing the steady rise of health costs won't be evident for years.
Finally--Hope for Controlling Health Costs Kathleen Madigan 2010
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