Sentences with phrase «awarded the medal of»

Instead, I'm referring to a series of ceremonies this year in which an unusually large number of U.S. veterans have been awarded the Medal of Honor.

President Obama awards the Medal of Freedom to recipient Warren Buffett during a ceremony to present the awards at the White House in Washington February 15, 2011.

The US Army is awarding the Medal of Heroism to three students killed in the Parkland, Florida, school shooting.

At 11 a.m., state Division of Veterans Affairs Director Eric Hesse and Major General Patrick Murphy, the adjutant general of New York, open an exhibit posthumously honoring an Albany resident (Henry Johnson) awarded the Medal of Honor this year, War Room, second floor, state Capitol.

Governor Rick Scott has awarded the Medal of Heroism to the school resource officer credited with taking quick action to help prevent another mass school shooting last week.

The other two were later arrested, and Marcano was awarded the Medal of Honor.

He disclosed that there was little or non-issue with indiscipline in the theatre as 15,000 soldiers had been awarded medals of excellence in the theatre of operation for patriotism and gallantry.

New York's congressional delegation is working to get an upstate post office named after a Hudson Valley soldier who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his bravery during World War II.

Washington (CNN)- President Obama will award the Medal of Honor to U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert J. Miller for «conspicuous gallantry» and «heroic actions» in Afghanistan in January 2008, the White House announced Thursday.

Now there will be a second White House ceremony, this time to award the Medal of Honor to Sergeant Ty Carter, a member of Black Knight Troop, in the 3rd platoon nicknamed the Bastards.

Christobel is awarded the Medal of Paramithi for sweeping the floors all week.

His deeds were recognized and he was awarded the Medal of Honor, becoming the first Conscientious Objector in history to have that distinction.

Andrew Garfield stars as Desmond T. Doss, an unsung World War II hero and the first - ever conscientious objector to be awarded the Medal of Honor.

Jesse were awarded the Medal of Freedom by president Ford in 1976.

Governor Rick Scott has awarded the Medal of Heroism to the school resource officer credited with taking quick action to help prevent another mass school shooting last week.

In a literal fusion of art and politics, Lewis, who was awarded the Medal of Freedom in 2010, and Lyon will discuss civil liberties, gun control, and voting rights.

Secretary of State John Kerry awards Medal of Arts to Julie Mehretu.

He received the silver medal at the Saint Louis Exposition in 1904; gold medals at the International Exposition, Munich, in 1905, and at the Paris Salon in 1913 (the first American so honored [3]-RRB-; and was awarded the medal of honor at the Panama — Pacific International Exposition in 1915.

Represented South Africa in Lisbon at the Gulbenkian Foundation Represented South Africa at the Venice Biennale 1969 Work reproduced under the category World Painting in Encyclopaedia Britannica 1971 Represented South Africa at Sao Paulo Biennale, Brazil Invited to International exhibition Xilografia Contemporanea Bologna, Italy - Galeria Chalet Della Rose Exhibition of «Icons» at Totem - Meneghelli Gallery, Johannesburg 1972 Retrospective exhibition at Pretoria Art Museum Exhibition at William Humphrey's Art Gallery, Kimberley Exhibited at National Museum, Bloemfontein 1973 Created the Assassination of Shaka portfolio of 43 original three colour woodcuts with Stephen Gray's poetry 1974 Represented South Africa at the National Art Museum in Athens Exhibition at Royal Belgian, Congo Museum, Tervuren, Belgium Exhibition of The Assassination of Shaka at the Kunshistoriches Museum, Vienna Exhibition of paintings at the Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg 1976 Awarded Medal of Honour for painting by the Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns Presented with set of commemorative medallions - 1820 Settlers National Monument Foundation for contribution to art in South Africa Exhibition of wood panels and ten landscapes, a portfolio of original woodcuts with poetry by Stephen Gray at Goodman Gallery, 1977 Exhibition of panels, totems, woodcuts, drawings and jewellery Art Gallery of the University of Stellenbosch 1978 Relocated from Johannesburg to Cape Town 1980 Tapestries at South African National Gallery Tapestry Exhibition, Cape Town 1981 First Cape Town one - man exhibition «Passage through an Alien Land», at Wolpe Gallery, Cape Town Taught painting, drawing, print - making and sculpture in Nyanga and District 6, Cape Town 1983 Exhibition «Judean Walls».

In 1847 he was awarded the medal of the Légion d'Honneur.

Im 2008 he was awarded the medal of the Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur.

He was awarded the Medal of Honor (first for an objector) and refused to carry a fire arm or weapon of any kind in combat conditions.

The U.S. Military Academy at West Point has posthumously admitted Wang to its class of 2025 and he was also awarded a Medal of Heroism by the U.S. Army.

Not exact matches

When Joseph Kruger II, CEO and chairman of the family's eponymous company, Kruger Inc., was awarded Quebec's Medal of the National Assembly last year, Quebec Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Pierre Arcand praised Kruger's career as an «entrepreneur.»

While there are still just a small number of brewers, that's changing — and they're winning major awards, like NoDa's Hop Drop «N Roll, which took home a gold medal from the 2014 World Beer Cup.

Trump announced the directive during a ceremony at the White House to award the public - safety Medal of Valor, saying he was grieving for the community of Parkland.

He also won three Tony Awards, including Lifetime Achievement, and received the Gold Medal in Drama from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1980 and the Kennedy Center Honors and the National Medal of Arts in 1996.

On Feb. 16, 2011, Buffett was awarded the highest civilian honor, the «Presidential Medal of Freedom,» by former President Barack Obama.

Update: July 15, 2015, 2:45 pm: President Barack Obama responded to calls from members of Congress to revoke the Presidential Medal of Freedom that Bill Cosby was awarded in 2002.

The handcrafted medal on the right was awarded to him last year when he served as co-president of the parents council at his son's school.

Judging from the company's 4.9 out of 5 - star rating on the career - rating website Glassdoor and Elite's host of awards for its culture — including the Ad Age's Gold Medal for Best Agency Culture, Crain's Best Place to Work and the top spot on Mashable's «Best Tech Companies to Work For» list — Kirshner's approach is working.

Bob Dylan's got a long list of accomplishments, from numerous Grammy Awards all the way to the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Hundreds of gold medals are awarded during every Olympic games, and it's inevitable that some athletes — who, more often than not, won't get rich from their sport — wind up selling them.

The recipient of several Bronze Stars and Service Medals (among other awards), Dunbar had to leave his UCLA EMBA program for a time so he could lead special forces operations inside Afghanistan, which included (in Dunbar's words) «11 different battalions, from 7 different countries, 13 different governmental and non-governmental agencies with over 6,000 personnel with no positional authority over the networked organization.»

In 2016, both Bill and Melinda were awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Obama, the highest civilian award in the US, for their charitable work.

And as I learned later it won a gold medal at the 2014 Wizards of Whiskey Awards.

His papers are now housed in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and he was awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation in 2006.

She is an Officer of the Order of Canada, and has received a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, a Lexpert Zenith Award, the Robert V. A. Jones Award recognizing leadership in corporate counsel practice and exceptional contributions to the Corporate Counsel bar or community.

In 2015, the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations awarded him The Ellis Island Medal of Honor.

Her many accolades for business achievements include the Schulich School of Business Award for Outstanding Executive Leadership and the inaugural Medal for Career Achievement from the Hennick Centre for Business and Law at York University, and she has been inducted into the Canadian Marketing Hall of Legends.

He was educated at the University of Adelaide gaining a first class honours degree, a PhD in Biochemistry and was awarded the University Medal.

As a member of the joint discovery team for the Hugo Dummett deposit at Oyu Tolgoi in Mongolia, he was a co-recipient of the PDAC inaugural Thayer Lindsley medal awarded for the most significant international mineral discovery in 2004.

Every year Francois dedicates a chapter of Giverny's annual letter to the year's best mistakes, awarding a bronze, silver and gold medal.

As a member of the joint discovery team for the Hugo Dummett deposit at Oyu Tolgoi in Mongolia, Doug was a co-recipient of the PDAC inaugural Thayer Lindsley medal awarded for the most significant international mineral discovery in 2004.

In 2003, he was awarded the Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal in recognition of his volunteer work with the WarAmps of Canada and in 2010 he was named as one of Edmonton's Top 40 under 40 by Avenue Magazine.

He has a Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia in Electrical and Computer Engineering and has received the Entrepreneur of the Year Award, Canada Awards Silver Medal in Entrepreneurship, BC Science and Engineering Gold Medal and Business Leader of the Year Award.

All eyes were on the auctioning of a 20 kg block of Bega Cheddar that had recently been awarded a gold medal at the Sydney show.

Kraft has also been inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame and the Congressional Medal of Honor Society's Patriot Award..

Both grand - parents lived and my grand - mother was awarded the «Congressional Medal Of Freedom» which I still have (they were re-located to the U.S. in 1946).

Lowery was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009 by President Obama.