(1) In his first editorial, John Bird wrote: ÔÇÿWe vaunt nothing beyond the determination that no effort be spared to make the journal a first-class family newspaper.ÔÇÖ

(2) Celtic's much vaunted three-man back line was soon spread out and scared to death by Porto's four-pronged attack.

(3) The modern U.S. military is vaunted as an all-volunteer force, but the truth is more complex.

(4) For all of our much vaunted independence, scratch an American of Anglo descent and you'll find a bit of a Briton.

(5) On the contrary, it chose to launch the report with a massive media and public relations campaign vaunting the scope, credibility and prestige of the Commission and its authors.

(6) I think Howard's much vaunted political antennae may be well out of tune on this one.

(7) More than any other area of genetics, then, the beneficial possibilities of gene therapy have been much vaunted .

(8) It is as if he caught a glimpse of a way to resolve the traumas - of race, allegiance, identity, inequality - that have beset America since it declared itself, vauntingly , impossibly, ÔÇÿthe land of the freeÔÇÖ.

(9) The Barrowsiders would probably be satisfied to put up a good performance against this much vaunted Laois side.

(10) Many of the books were written by wine merchants, often criticizing the practices of their colleagues, or vaunting their own specialities.

(11) As a result, his much vaunted pacifism may have to undergo a rethink.

(12) His much vaunted Ôö¼├║3 billion investment in automated warehouses did nothing to help product availability.

(13) It contrived to be both firmly capitalist and proudly working-class in character; hand in hand with big business but vaunting an anti-establishment stance.

(14) The economy emerged yesterday as a key battleground in the British general election with Labour vaunting its financial competence while the opposition Conservatives promised hefty tax cuts.

(15) And the weather is playing havoc with the much vaunted weather forecasting system here.

(16) Despite some good moments, her much vaunted collaboration with Jack White doesn't quite do it for me.

(17) There are also few examples of her much vaunted genius.

(18) The book's dust jacket vaunts this as ÔÇÿa masterpiece of modern political biography, written by one of Britain's leading historians'.

(19) Whoever wins the balloting will govern a country whose vaunted economic recovery is starting to fray.

(20) So much for the much vaunted transparency and accountability policy.