Sentences with phrase «as a prize at»

This included the ceremonial album of Lenin that he received as a prize at a history Olympiad, photo albums of Soviet cities found in the attic of the Stalinist culture centre, halcyon but awkward - looking advertising brochures for Soviet manufactured goods, and his family's albums of black - and - white photos taken on festive occasions.

A wreath of bay laurels was given as the prize at the Pythian Games because the games were in honor of Apollo, and the laurel was one of his symbols.

Not exact matches

The popularity of Pokémon Go threatens companies like Foursquare, which has a service called Swarm offering coupons and prizes to customers who «check in» at participating venues, and social e-commerce sites like Groupon and LivingSocial, which many businesses use as a vehicle to offer discount deals.

Tony Petrucciani of Single Source Systems, a systems - integration business in Fishers, Ind., offers Web surfers a free chance at such prizes as a PalmPilot personal organizer just for visiting the company's Web site.

At stake is more than $ 20,000 in cash prizes, as well as a chance to have a private dinner with Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

That prize has been elusive for Netflix despite offerings such as «The Crown» and «House of Cards,» and recruiting Rhimes and Murphy could help the company attain its goal — or at least add to its library of exclusive, buzzworthy shows.

TOKYO, March 30 - Toshiba Corp said on Friday it would not be able to complete an $ 18 billion deal to sell its prized chip unit by an agreed deadline at the end of March, as it had not received anti-monopoly approval from China.

In other words, it isn't the prize at the end that has significance or gives us reason, as it is when, for example, we focus on the most efficient way to deliver a product or profit.

But bigger prizes at schools such as Rice, MIT, Stanford and Harvard can yield significant seed money: $ 25,000 to $ 100,000.

There's nothing in marketing as exciting as offering people a chance at winning a prize in exchange for a little effort and personal information.

At the Challenge Festival, startups like as BaseTrace, which «uses DNA - based tracers to track where industrial fluids are going in large, complex environments» and Reliefwatch, a cloud - based system that uses smartphone technology to track inventory and diseases for healthcare organizations in the developing world, battled it out on stage for a grand prize of $ 150,000 in investment.

Canada will play host to the 2015 Women's World Cup as well as the U-20 Women's World Cup later this year, and successes with those events could pave the way for a shot at FIFA's biggest prize.

At Berkshire Hathaway's recent annual shareholders meeting, an investor asked Buffett about the relevance of two popular measures of stock market value: 1) market cap - to - GDP, which Buffett once heralded as «probably the best single measure of where valuations stand at any given moment» and 2) the cyclically - adjusted price - earnings ratio (CAPE), which was made famous by Nobel prize winner Robert Shiller and was seen as accurately predicting the dot - com bubble and the housing bubblAt Berkshire Hathaway's recent annual shareholders meeting, an investor asked Buffett about the relevance of two popular measures of stock market value: 1) market cap - to - GDP, which Buffett once heralded as «probably the best single measure of where valuations stand at any given moment» and 2) the cyclically - adjusted price - earnings ratio (CAPE), which was made famous by Nobel prize winner Robert Shiller and was seen as accurately predicting the dot - com bubble and the housing bubblat any given moment» and 2) the cyclically - adjusted price - earnings ratio (CAPE), which was made famous by Nobel prize winner Robert Shiller and was seen as accurately predicting the dot - com bubble and the housing bubble.

Famous Dave's created a new value menu as well, which features a mix of barbecue and non-barbecue items served with smaller portion sizes at lower prize points.

At this time, we're not gonna go into what Pai's motives may have been but it has been reported that the NRA, which has been lobbying for the repeal of these regulations has now honored him with a valuable handmade Kentucky long gun as a prize for the part he played «standing up under pressure with grace, dignity and principled discipline»

Yet Christians and Buddhists both prize excellent formulations of their vision and argue among themselves at great length as to which is best.

Bad and divided as the church may be, it is the only organization really working at the job of affecting men's lives in the deep way in which they must be affected if what we prize is to survive.

In 1917 he presented an address as part of a prize distribution at the Borough Polytechnic Institute in Southwark.

A precocious and self - contained child, from an early age possessed of an outstanding facility for languages, he was dazzling as a scholar at Eton and, at seventeen, a scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he went on to gain first - class honors and a prize fellowship.

It begins at a Pentecost tournament called by Charlemagne, for Christian and Muslim knights alike, which is interrupted by the arrival of Angelica, a woman of astonishing beauty who offers herself as the prize to any knight who can defeat her brother upon the field of battle.

Bergson had in fact won the prize in mathematics (and in English, Latin, Greek and philosophy») at the Lycee Condorcet in Paris, and as Gunter reports:

Stacks of rice flower, sake and fruit are often placed at the altar; after the gods have consumed the «essence,» the food is given away at the end of the services as door prizes.

A promising place to begin is found in two sentences in a report by the Rutgers National Marriage Project: «Most Americans continue to prize and value marriage as an important life goal, and the vast majority of us will marry at least once in a lifetime....

Religion — be it «Christian» or otherwise — has within its framework the idea of our need to «arrive» at something or somewhere — as though our actions or beliefs gain us the end prize - whatever that prize might be.

But because modern efforts at Christian unity are often heavy on symbolism rather than substance (the harder thing to achieve), a meeting between the Patriarch of Moscow and the Pope of Rome was held out as a tantalizing prize for Catholic ecumenists, one that could be used to extract concessions at some necessary moment.

According to Executive Director at AON Norman Andrew, «food and drink companies view their brands as a prized asset and without them they can not trade profitably».

It is a sport so cruel that its popularity is anything but a credit to those that patronize it, / a number of plump ganders, whose necks are well - greased, are suspended at the regulation height, in much the same manner as rings arranged at ordinary tournaments The «knights» who enlist from the prizes dash out on their horses in courtly fashion and grab each of those down - hanging necks in succession as they pass, the most skillful rider and «puller» winning the prizes.

If the organization you are working with requires you to purchase outside supplements, accessories, food or any other products in order for you to win the prize for your weight - loss, keep moving as there are likely ulterior motives and additional costs at hand.

Then, at my school, we'd have the end - of - year Day of Fun, where we'd play games as a class and win prizes and throw water balloons and all that nonsense.

The well - thought out design secured her # 500 in prize money and the opportunity to immerse herself in the professional world of packaging design as part of a week's work experience at the GPI Global Innovation Centre in Bardon, Leicestershire.

The winners will be honored at the Retail - Foodservice Celebration Dinner on Wednesday, June 22, where five grand prize winners will be announced as recipients of an additional $ 1,000 cash prize.

Through the launch of the prize, Euskadi captures the spirit of its region, and at the same time builds on its reputation as one of the world's foremost gastronomic destination, which keeps on offering new reasons to visit and enjoy.

Chef / Owner Josiah Citrin, a native Angeleno, showcases the finest contemporary French / American cuisine at Mélisse, which has been recognized and honored as one of the country's most acclaimed and highest rated restaurants, having earned two prized Michelin stars, and was just named to Elite Traveler Magazine's «Top 100 Restaurants in the World» list this year.

Additionally, Purity Vodka received high marks across all categories at the 2013 Asian Spirits Masters and garnered the competition's top prize as the «Best Vodka and Overall Spirit.»

The only company to receive two awards at the ceremony, H2M Beverages took home the prize for «Best New Beverage Concept» as well as «Best Closure» for their vitamin - enhanced drink, 989 OnDemand.

Hot off the heels of her season 15 win on Gordon Ramsay's hit FOX reality show, HELL»S KITCHEN, Ariel Malone is ready to cash in her prize as Head Chef at BLT Steak at Bally's Las Vegas.

Stan's SWAG prizes will be available at the South Loop location only, such as their signature Stan's Mechanic Shirt, t - shirts, coffee mugs and more.

Our number 11 is not talking about winning the prize at the end of this year, as he freely admits that he has not done enough and also that to really stand a chance he needs to be part of a successful team.

The differences in prize money, as in most tournaments, are sharpest at the top of the leaderboard.

Perhaps the most stacked group features Rickie Fowler, Henrik Stenson, and Jason Day starting at 8:16 a.m.. All three men are former winners at The Players, with Day looking to repeat as champion after taking home the top prize last year.

we have at most 4 real quality outfielders i.e. players that other top european teams would take... ozil sanchez santi and kos... in my books you need 6... we are two short but worse the quality of others is lower than needed... only bellerin coq and wilshere have that potential... and there are problems with each still... we should have put in bids in june for griezman kondogbia and the Burussia striker as all could have been prized away with right bid plus players thrown in IMO... now its too late and wenger is in some weird gallic world of existential hope and denial and fans are just praying we do nt lose opening 2 matches for first time in over two decades... but no one is really confident against a team which is sure to finish around mid table...

You can walk into Lawry's Prime Rib in Beverly Hills, as prized NFL prospect Jonathan Ogden did on a recent evening, wearing an outfit that wouldn't get you through the servants» entrance at Deion Sanders's house, let alone into one of L.A.'s most eminent eateries.

Between them at one time or another Albert and Ernest Fay have collected many of the world's available 5.5 prizes as well as a cabinetful of trophies in other classes.

This translates as the rather admirable «the prize and the cause of our labours,» a worthy sentiment that was, according to at least one tale told on a forum, at one accidental point debased by the club.

By playing in the many beautiful arenas that now pepper the land, Dixon figured the troupe could wedge in as many as 80 tournaments a year, at $ 10,000 in prize money a crack.

Angling for contracts as well as prize money, tournament bass pros must work as fast as possible at «getting the meat in»

Still, Inter may be ready to cash in on their prized asset as they look at another exciting young player to replace the 22 - year - old in their attack, Villarreal's Luciano Vietto.

Da Costa declared that he had lined up Pereira as a possible successor to Villas - Boas «about a month» before the 33 year - old departed for Chelsea, and whilst there may be an element of exaggeration in what he said, there is little doubt that continuity is a prized commodity at the Dragão, on and off the pitch.

And i get it and supported it as i realized a few frustrating years is a small prize for future glories but we are still recording 25 % more injuries than our direct rivals in average and i think this is the real unspoken problem at the root of our misfortune.

He has been going since he said I am a winner and I want to win the biggest team and personal prizes and since he realised he was at a club that wouldn't be doing that he decided to go elesewhere (frustrating for him but try being a fan as we see it year after year).