A "practical joker" deserves applause for his wit according to its quality.

The Government deserves respect and applause for remarkable progress in just two months.

Please, that was so simple it does not deserve applause!

In reality, if the Nets stayed close and made it somewhat competitive, they deserved applause.

Anyone who declares, "What a gift it is to be alive now," deserves applause, no matter how she arrived there.

For simply reopening what has always been a torturous debate in this country, the president deserves applause.

He deserves applause for offering a serious proposal to raise the kind of money city school construction needs.

Reading Reform deserves applause for its intensive and effective outreach.

But, for the patience they are now exercising, they deserve applause.

This work, of course, is a classic, the kind that deserves applause when it starts.