Sentences with phrase «award scheme in»

There has been an overwhelming response to the awards scheme in its first year, with 57 applications received from a diverse range of organisations across the country.

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Meanwhile, Netflix also chipped away at the dominance of the Hollywood establishment as Kevin Spacey walked away with the award for best performance in a TV drama for his role as the scheming Francis Underwood in the political series «House of Cards».

In response to shareholder feedback, the company revamped its executive compensation program by introducing a formulaic bonus scheme (which included metrics based on TSR, production, expenses, and margins), conditioning equity awards on performance metrics (relative TSR and absolute cash flow), and reducing Mr. Nichols» salary by one - third.

«An old friend of Scripture Union, HRH's passion for work with children and young people, rooted in his leadership of The Duke of Edinburgh's Award scheme, was infectious and he loved meeting both our staff and some of the teenagers we work with.

Five of Produce World's sites have received accreditation from the national green scheme Investors in Environment (iiE), and the English company has picked up two prestigious awards as a result of its excellence in this area.

The UK's premier annual awards scheme now in its 58th year, will take place on day two of the show, 15th September, in the Keynote Theatre, between 1 pm and 3 pm.

This award recognises the hard work our teams have done together in rolling out this scheme to Tesco stores, to tackle food waste and food poverty in the UK.

SB Nation's Matthew Fairburn believes Brown will be a candidate for the NFL's Defensive Rookie of the Year award if he's drafted by a team that can highlight his strengths, and plays in the right scheme.

The Oxford University Lifesaving Club trains in accordance with award schemes / qualifications set down by the Royal Lifesaving Society (RLSS).

The awards scheme was established earlier this year to recognise achievement and involvement in sport of students at Oxford.

The Ghana Music Awards is an Awards scheme designed to recognize, celebrate the hard work and dedication of various stakeholders and players in the Entertainment Industry.

He made history as the first Ghanaian to be nominated at the awards scheme, which is in its 58th year.

Find out more about the energy challenge and how National Grid is helping find solutions to some of the challenges we face at www.nationalgridconnecting.com The National Grid Energy Efficiency Innovation Award scheme was launched across National Grid's four gas distribution networks and provided a # 400k fund to support major innovations to tackle fuel poverty and deliver energy efficiency solutions in communities, with five agencies in total receiving awards.

The scheme has proved increasingly popular over the last decade — with one in four car parks — that's around 5,000 - now Park Mark awarded.

Souring the perception of Martins is the strange odor coming from a scheme by Deputy County Executive Rob Walker to award the county's Civil Service Employees Association $ 5 million of the $ 10 million in pay it claims it's owed in the aftermath of a wage freeze, and a guarantee of no layoffs in 2018.

Court papers say the charges announced Thursday come from «two overlapping criminal schemes involving bribery, corruption, and fraud in the award of hundreds of millions of dollars in State contracts and other official State benefits.»

Speaking at the 2016 Head of State Awards at the Banquet Hall of the Flagstaff House in Accra, Vice President Amissah - Arthur said the award scheme, therefore, provides the framework that helps young people develop the skills necessary for life

Jenny Saunders OBE, Chief Executive of National Energy Action (NEA), the national fuel poverty charity and one of the award scheme judges said «Coordinated action at a local level is key to helping the estimated 2.2 million households in living in fuel poverty in our communities and there is a wealth of knowledge, experience and passion amongst not for profit organisations seeking to address this problem across England.

Shuaib, an award - winning writer, was offered automatic employment by Delta State and Federal Government after winning State and Presidential Awards of the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) scheme in 1993.

A similar scheme in the US has seen those awarded contracts grow at five times the rate of comparable businesses.»

The SolarCity construction project, the biggest part of the Buffalo Billion, is embroiled in a corruption scandal as federal prosecutors alleged the $ 750 million state investment was awarded to LPCiminelli through a bid - rigging scheme.

On Thursday, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, perpetual thorn in Albany's side, formally announced the charges, which stem from two corruption schemes between state officials and private companies that had millions of dollars worth of business before New York state, including those awarded contracts under the «Buffalo Billion» program — one of the governor's key initiatives meant to draw businesses to upstate New York to revive the flagging economy.

Since then he's worked in media and communications, running his own business and becoming more involved with various charities, including Kidscape, who specialise in anti-bullying and the Snowdon award scheme, for students with disabilities.

The complaint says that the men were involved in «two overlapping criminal schemes involving bribery, corruption and fraud in the awarding of hundreds of millions of dollars in state contracts and other official state benefits.»

The charges levied Thursday by Bharara include bribery, bid - rigging and facilitating a pay - to - play scheme in order to ensure that desired contractors - specifically those who have made large cash contributions to the Governor's election campaign - were awarded contracts.

In one scheme, for example, prosecutors accused Silver of pulling strings to award state money to a mesothelioma researcher at Columbia, who would then route mesothelioma victims to his own law firm, netting him millions in referral bonuseIn one scheme, for example, prosecutors accused Silver of pulling strings to award state money to a mesothelioma researcher at Columbia, who would then route mesothelioma victims to his own law firm, netting him millions in referral bonusein referral bonuses.

Comic Awards Ghana is an award scheme set out to reward the hard work of comedians in the country.

For us in the police, regulations 80 of the C.I 76 talks about award scheme for police officers who die in line of duties but Mr. President I must say that since the C.I 76 came into force in 2012, the only benefit we have gotten from it is disciplinary actions, reduction in ranks and dismissals.

BASC chairman Peter Glenser has praised the work of those involved in the Lindisfarne wildfowling scheme after it landed bronze in the prestigious 2017 Purdey Awards for Game and Conservation at a ceremony in London last night

As part of the new agreement, the IMI and its qualifications subsidiary, IMI Awards, will be responsible for managing the quality assurance process for the irtec scheme, which will include the approval of new testing centres, monitoring of the assessments and assessors and working with other qualification bodies who have shown an interest in supporting the scheme.

The practical challenges in the competition are based upon the UK's foremost technician competence accreditation service, irtec, which was recently re-launched by scheme partners the IRTE and IMI Awards ltd..

Joseph Percoco, a former top aide and confidant of Cuomo, as well as SUNY Polytechnic Institute's founding President and CEO Alain Kaloyeros and officials at some of upstate New York's most prominent development firms were charged in a federal complaint with allegedly engaging in two overlapping schemes involving bribery, corruption and fraud in the award of hundreds of millions of dollars in state contracts and other official benefits.

Now Dr. Kaloyeros is charged with secretly manipulating the process through which the State University of New York Polytechnic Institute, the university branch that he headed, awarded lucrative contracts to a select few developers in Buffalo, Albany and Syracuse, whose executives were also charged in the scheme.

I suspect that those behind this diabolical scheme are the same characters who wrote fraudulent proposals and offered funny awards to a governor who has not spent six months in office».

The Trades Ministry and the Foundation maintained their innocence in the matter and insisted that due process was followed in soliciting funds for the awards scheme.

The bi-partisan Committee probing the extortion claims was enveloped by controversy when its Minority members decided to prepare and leak a separate report that indicted some stakeholders of interests in the probe, including the Ministry of Trade and the organizers of the awards scheme, the Millennium Excellence Foundation.

The scheme provided SILVER with two different streams of unlawful income: (i) approximately $ 700,000 in kickbacks SILVER received by steering two real estate developers with business before the state legislature to a law firm with which he was associated, and (ii) more than $ 3 million in asbestos client referral fees SILVER received by, among other official acts, awarding $ 500,000 in state grants to a university research center of a physician who referred patients made ill by asbestos to SILVER at Weitz & Luxenberg.

A Mayor Bill de Blasio fundraiser — whose engineering firms have been awarded millions of dollars in city contracts — has been charged with enlisting his employees to donate to the 2013 mayoral election and reimbursing them through end - of - the - year bonuses in a bribery - filled corruption scheme, Manhattan prosecutors said Wednesday.

Project Innovation Award A Highly Commended Award was presented to Construction Industry Council Hong Kong, S. Thomas Ng and James M.W. Wong (The University of Hong Kong) for their report on «A product - based carbon labeling scheme for construction materials» The judges commented «This report highlighted a project that not only clearly demonstrates a topic relevant to the present day, but also the work that the researchers have accomplished in order to progress the idea from the ground upwards, leading to the development of a carbon footprint assessment tool that could not only be used in Hong Kong, but also internationally.»

The SolarCity construction project in Buffalo's RiverBend industrial park — the biggest part of the original Buffalo Billion — is embroiled in a corruption scandal as Bharara alleges $ 750 million state investment was awarded to LPCiminelli through a bid - rigging scheme.

The men were convicted in December 2015 of extortion and bribery in an alleged scheme by the elder Skelos to use his political influence to steer work and to award a no - show job to his son.

Speaking at the Heads of States Award Scheme, President John Mahama stated that various youth empowerment and skills development schemes had been put in place to reduce Ghana's unemployment rate.

In Mr. Silver's awarding of a grant to Dr. Taub, Ms. Phillips said on Monday, «I didn't think there was any scheming or manipulation or anything dangerous.»

(Under Beaudet's reforms, CIHR's former array of grant programs was obliterated in favor of a regime that awarded Foundation scheme grants worth between $ 38,800 to $ 1.16 million annually for up to 7 years to established researchers to conduct open - ended research, or Project scheme grants worth between $ 38,800 to $ 581,000 annually for up to 5 years for more focused research projects.)

Projects such as the CREST award scheme (Creativity in Science and Technology), Neighbourhood Engineers and other school - industry links, the British Association's Young Scientists, the investigations in some A-level science courses, all give students a flavour of what science is like and how satisfying it can be.

This award scheme allows researchers who can demonstrate an appropriate track record in chemisty, physics, or economics to apply for funding to investigate and develop ideas, skills, and collaborations in the area of biomedical research.

Although under FP6 there is now a new call for laboratories to put themselves forward to participate in this scheme, vacancies for training sites awarded under FP5 are still available.

The funding for this research is given through the Cancer Research UK Pioneer Awards scheme which offers up to # 200,000 to encourage innovative ideas, from individuals or teams, from any background that could be game changing in tackling cancer.

The AU - TWAS award scheme aims to recognise and reward talented young scientists in Africa.

For the 2017 scheme, potential GROW hosts in Ireland include the 12 SFI - funded Research Centres and laboratories in publically funded institutions holding certain awards from Science Foundation Ireland.