Sentences with phrase «as his consolation prize for»

I once sent an email to someone I know is a big Red Sox fan after they beat the Cardinals and said, «Hey, as a consolation prize for that beating the Sox gave us yesterday, can you approve this for me?»

Send him home with the board game of «Catch A Clue» as his consolation prize for crapping out.

HOWEVER... as a consolation prize for those who've played, I'm giving 50 % OFF ALL MY ART just for TODAY ONLY!

As a consolation prize for losing the Super Bowl, Jell - O announced that they will be sending truckloads of free pudding to...

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.»

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Although this isn't the official MVP award (that one went to Stephen Curry), it might serve as a bit of a consolation prize for Harden, who obviously did have a great season.

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.

Others (OK, Lazio supporters) suggested what's really going on here is a recognition by Cox and Levy supporters that county executive won't make it to the 50 percent - plus - one threshold and will need to be tapped to run for some other office as a sort of consolation prize.

For these MPs, unlikely to achieve ministerial office, a committee chair seems to function as a consolation prize.

Expect her to win for it unless Sniper nabs this as its solitary consolation prize — a result I'd bet against and would not like to see.

Don't worry, however, as you will still be eligible for some consolation prizes if you miss out on the Gamerscore.

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.

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.

Why: As I was saying about consolation prizes above, voters may decide to give golden coming - of - ager Call Me by Your Name the win here that it won't get for Best Picture.

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.

So since they can't ever get the prestige, they might as well go for that flithy consolation prize also known as money.

Don't let «saving for retirement» be the reason not to do something he wants to do now, and don't offer «we can do that when we retire» as a consolation prize.

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!).

Fortunately as a consolation prize, NCSoft will be giving away access to their other MMO's, City of Heroes and Lineage 2, free for 3 months.

Don't worry, however, as you will still be eligible for some consolation prizes if you miss out on the Gamerscore.

As a consolation prize, the announcement post that Epic made on Reddit for the downtime has some tantalizing teasers: «A new week, a new patch!

I neglected to wait for Shadow, so I found Relm as a consolation prize.

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.

Some politicians may regard renewable energy standards as a «free» consolation prize for environmentalists if cap and trade should be turned down.

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.

Would there not be some other visual arts type of workshop — even on a weekend — you could find for Sprog 1, as a consolation prize?