At his reception into the Académie française he publicly lauded Chateaubriand, then in disgrace.

Both Mr. Hoffmann and Mr. Lonsdale had publicly lauded Mr. Kerry in the past.

On the day Nixon left office, he publicly lauded his mother's influence, calling her a "saint," but surmised that no one would ever write a book about her.

He was also publicly lauded as the leader of a victorious army.

The contradictions came to light after New York State discovered internal e-mail messages in which Merrill analysts privately lambasted companies that they were lauding publicly.

The pitfall of publicly lauding his lessons, he says, is that people often think he's a better player than he is.

But while the Governor was publicly lauding DiMaggio, he was said to be privately furious over what his aides called efforts by the Mayor to embarrass Mr. Pataki over the issue.

The petition also faults Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg for publicly lauding the proposed redesign of the building at the news conference at which it was unveiled in 2003.

The disc, which featured the perennially popular "Stand," went gold shortly after being publicly lauded by Oprah Winfrey.

Lafayette publicly lauded Wayne's performance, but recorded privately that Wayne made tactical mistakes and the battle read well "in a gazette".