much-vaunted

The much-vaunted "Pledge to America" is long on platitudes and faux-patriotism -- the notion that your political opponents are not patriots.

Nigel Hamilton: American Caesars Nigel Hamilton 2010

The much-vaunted "Pledge to America" is long on platitudes and faux-patriotism -- the notion that your political opponents are not patriots.

Nigel Hamilton: American Caesars Nigel Hamilton 2010

One of the southbound trains came to a halt last Sunday night, only ten days after the much-vaunted project made its debut on June 30, one day before the Communist Party's 90th anniversary.

China's High-Speed Rail Hiccups 2011

Meanwhile Amnesty International has just published a report showing that - in spite of Sierra Leone's much-vaunted free healthcare for pregnant women and their children - mothers are still being asked to pay for drugs they cannot afford.

The worst country in the world to be a sick child 2011

The much-vaunted mix of authoritarianism and economic reform is under severe strain.

Is China's Triumphalism Misplaced? Michael Kurtz 2011

One of the southbound trains came to a halt last Sunday night, only ten days after the much-vaunted project made its debut on June 30, one day before the Communist Party's 90th anniversary.

China's High-Speed Rail Hiccups 2011

Finally, there was a television in almost every living room, and yet there remained a willingness to embrace expertise; a respect that, in the age of the much-vaunted democracy of the web, has gone.

Claire Rayner: A sane voice that helped people make sense of the knotty complications of their sexual lives Jay Rayner 2010

Today, MPs will debate the much-vaunted protection of freedoms bill, informed by the Your Freedom website where people elected laws they would like to see scrapped.

Letters: Without a prayer 2011

After he had reduced Maicon, the much-vaunted Brazilian Inter right-back, to a nervous wreck it did not feel outlandish to wonder whether there was a better left-sided midfielder in Europe.

Tottenham Hotspur's Gareth Bale praised for display at Internazionale David Hytner 2010

Either course means the death of Europe's much-vaunted middle way: a society of sovereign states that accept the jurisdiction of international institutions.

Europe's Less Than Perfect Union Walter Russell Mead 2011