Sentences with phrase «as a consolation prize in»

You're right that it should come as no surprise, but I supect it will be «sped up» as a consolation prize in the event of a «No» vote.

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(Walgreens is however in the process of buying and converting about 1,320 Rite Aid stores as a consolation prize.)

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teams will see what they can get and then either bring DA in as a mentor, if he fits their expectations or as a consolation prize if they exit the draft empty handed.

As a consolation prize the 2nd place team will all get 10 passes for open gym to the HP Rec, so they can train in the off - season and hopefully get 1st next year.

Thanks to dumb and arbitrary rules that are only now being changed because they are dumb and arbitrary, Aubameyang is unfortunately cup tied to Dortmund who, like CSKA Moscow, were bounced from the group stage of the Champion's League and were given a berth in the Europa League knockout stages as a consolation prize.

Granting Paladino rights to the parcel in Erie Basin Marina was widely perceived in development and political circles as a consolation prize that kept him neutral in the mayor's race, aside from a $ 100 donation he made to Brown.

The million, and it might be more, as announced by County Executive Mike Hein in his state - of - the - county address in January, comes as consolation prize from the state after the regional casino was sited in neighboring Sullivan County and not at the nearby Nevele.

It will likely earn only Best Song as a consolation prize, which is pretty awful in a lot of ways.

The history: On his two previous Competition appearances, for «All About My Mother» in 1999 and «Volver» in 2006, Almodovar entered the race as the bookies» favourite, only to land the consolation prizes of Best Director and Best Screenplay, respectively.

Winona Ryder, Alexis Bledel, Rita Moreno and even Judith Light (a consolation prize for «Transparent») are in the running as well.

In the meantime, when asked about his fellow Best Comedy Album nominees receiving puppies from host James Corden as consolation prizes, Chappelle deadpanned, «I would love to get one of those puppies.»

Why: If you think of the writing categories as the ones where Academy voters give consolation prizes to films they like but don't want for Best Picture, then expect to see Jordan Peele on stage early in the evening, picking up the hardware for his feature debut as writer / director.

And I think he was nominated for the wrong reason, as a consolation prize for stepping in for Kevin Spacey, which is not the right reason to vote for anybody.»

In a strange way, as there was such consensus around Toni Erdmann (pictured above), it's possibly better that it did not get some minor consolation prize like a shared director's award.

Kidman is the obvious bet for consolation prize: it feels like she's moving into the Grande Dame phase of her career in which every major role she takes has one eye on the little gold fella, and if a lot of the time she's going to aim and miss (the specter of «Grace of Monaco» hovers on the horizon, not eligible here yet, but still its stinking word of mouth and distribution troubles are already part of the narrative), in general the Academy loves a trier, so a nod for something as unexceptional - but - prestigey as «The Railway Man» would not be out of the question.

Some drivers professed to becoming accustomed to it after several months, but, as associate editor Eric Tingwall noted, «The excellent automatic transmission that many of us have sampled in other Mazda 3s is a fine consolation prize for those who can't deal with this clutch.»

Serving as the top level offering, the consolation prize for the lack of manual gearbox availability in Sport Touring trim is the presence of steering wheel - mounted paddle shifters, which offer as much direct involvement in the mechanical operation of the car as most buyers will likely ever desire.

It's a sad day when a reputable publisher such as Chronicle stoops to sending potential authors rejection letters — only now to include a spanking new alternative solution for them: an advertising insert in the letter containing some kind of a consolation prize coupon, sending them over to their your do - it - yourself partner Blurb.

The consolation prize, as Lento points out, is that (in theory) the reduction in corporate taxes should allow companies to increase their dividends.

But personally, I remain comfortable with the logic of my decision to choose VOF (over VEIL & VNH) as a slightly more defensive / appropriate fund for a frontier market — the index outcome & relative performances could obviously have been very different under an alternative scenario — in the end, I didn't pick / achieve the actual best - performing fund, but I did match the index (and +118 % is an excellent consolation prize!).

That will not be the closest spot in the Sochi area to the matches, but as a consolation prize there will be a World Cup Fan Village in Rosa Khutor!

As a consolation prize seems in order, and many Trump climate appointees regard the law is the queen of the sciences, the UAH team could ask the Rev. Doctor Beisner to toss Judge's Stetson in the ring, for the Heartland Institute Evangelical Climate Scientist of the Year Award.

Back then, the Bush administration's action was seen by environmentalists and industry analysts as something of a consolation prize to the industry, which fought hard earlier in 2007 against higher fuel - economy standards like the ones backed by then - Senator Obama.

The UK's senior woman judge got a consolation prize for missing the very top job in taking over from the affable Lord Hope as deputy president of the Supreme Court.

If this latest promotion follows in the first one's footsteps, expect whatever games aren't selected to go free to be discounted on the PlayStation Store as a consolation prize.