Sentences with phrase «accepted the award because»

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(Because everybody must be desperate to know, Jenner is -500 to wear a red dress while accepting the Arthur Ashe Courage Award.)

«This award is all of our award because you are my community,» said Almontaser when she came up to the stage to accept her award.

Last week she came to accept an award from a local organization, and in a few minutes she displayed the breadth of her knowledge about Staten Island, about our economic development challenges, about the projects that are there, because she understands it because she takes the time to learn it.

Accepting the award, Jolie said she still feels «wonder at the privilege of being able to work as an artist,» especially because for past generations of women, «the freedom to pursue art and ideas independently, on equal footing, was a bitter dream.

She rambled, she seemed self - involved, overly dramatic, pompous... let's just say it's probably a good thing she hasn't accepted too many awards publicly this year because I think it would have damaged her Oscar chances.

Accepting the award for Best Actor in a Television Series: Musical or Comedy, Master of None creator and star Aziz Ansari riffed about his surprise: «I genuinely didn't think I would win because all the websites said I was gonna lose.»

Although none of the executive producers were able to attend the ceremony because the show is busy filming in Europe, the award will have a temporary home: Kristian Nairn, who played Hodor on the show and was DJing the award ceremony, accepted the award on the show's behalf.

Check out the video of Allison and Daniel accepting the award, it's so cute because they were very surprised.

Accepting the award, Steven paid mention to the show's stars Cillian Murphy and Helen McCrory, saying: «I wish the people who created such iconic TV, soon maybe they will be here as well because they deserve to be.»

Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima wasn't at The Game Awards 2015 because his longtime employer, Konami, prevented him from attending, host Geoff Keighley announced shortly after Kiefer Sutherland accepted an award on Kojima's behalf.

Reducing awards would discourage new schools from accepting vouchers, and it would probably force some schools already participating to drop out of the voucher program because they'd be unable to shoulder the greater financial burden.

Watch Congressman John Lewis of Georgia accept National Book Award and reflect emotionally on how as a child he was denied a library card because he is black.

I was able to accept the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum's award of Living Artist of Distinction because we could locate the images they requested.

This is because going to court means accepting the court's verdict and paying the awarded settlement amount.

If a car accident lawyer can show that the cause of the accident was a speeding driver, not only will they be able to prove the driver's negligence and assign them fault, but they might be able to ask the jury to award punitive damages, because speeding is understood and accepted as behavior that should not occur behind the wheel.

Claire Rowe, chief executive of Shoosmiths (pictured), said: «It was a very proud moment for me to accept this award on behalf of Shoosmiths because it recognises many years of hard work by all at the firm.

Because Wife's expert provided the only testimony on the value of Husband's businesses, the court accepted his valuations and awarded Wife 45 % of the net marital earnings of $ 552,378, along with $ 52,000 in attorney's fees and costs.

Justice Feldman reasoned that where a wrongfully dismissed employee is forced, because of financial considerations, to accept an inferior position because no comparable positions are available, the amounts earned in that inferior position should not be deducted from the damages award.

Our attorneys can also help you determine if you should not accept the severance because you may be able to obtain a larger monetary award through an employment lawsuit.

Google has officially begun accepting entries for this year's Material Design Awards, and the contest will be a bit more open than in previous years because it now allows examples of Material Design from iOS apps and around the web to enter, rather than limiting entries to Android apps.