And the owners, still smarting from defeats like the one in 1990, are also boasting a heightened resolve, resulting in the current standoff.

The owners boasted that they were the nation's first "all-tape radio station", meaning that all programming would originate from tape, rather than phonograph records, as they believed tape delivered higher quality.

Again and again these owners will boast that they got ahead by working harder than anyone else.

In 1957, he would sign with the Toronto Maple Leafs, whose owner, Jack Kent Cooke boasted that ".

In New Orleans, civic leaders and the owners of the Charlotte Hornets were boasting about a proposed move in 2002 - from the nation's 27th-ranked TV market to the 43rd.

They chugged past another huddle of houses and a building whose owner boasted it was the last pub until New York.

Her owners, a pair of old German brothers in Quito, boasted that their ship would never be out of touch with the rest of the world for an instant.

Hancock, renamed Iris, served the British Navy so effectively that her new owners boasted of her as "the finest and fastest frigate in the world."

By 1575 the owners of small farms in the surrounding area could boast of more than fourteen hides per 30 morgen of arable land, which today has reverted to common woodland.

The then current owner, Barnet "Barney" Welansky, boasted of his ties to the Mafia and to Boston Mayor Maurice J. Tobin.