Sentences with phrase «first won recognition»

The Torres Strait is home to the group of Islanders from Mer who first won recognition of native title, with Eddie (Koiki) Mabo triggering the land rights case which recognised Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islanders» native title to the land and affirmed that Australia was not terra nullius (belonging to no one) when the British arrived.

The Torres Strait is home to the group of Islanders from Mer who first won recognition of native title, with Eddie (Koiki) Mabo initiating the ground - breaking land rights case.

Mitchell first won recognition in the 1950s as an Abstract Expressionist.

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Its first published paper last year on teaching software to recognize objects won the award for best paper at the 2017 Conference on Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition.

Known for: Having waged a war against corrupt officials and won official recognition as the party's «core,» Xi became China's most dominant leader in decades in his first term.

«Linda J. Amendt is an accomplished and experienced baker and home canner, winning over 900 awards in state and county fair food competitions across the country, including nearly 600 first place blue ribbons and special awards for excellence, and earning national recognition for her exquisite food creations.»

James Cropper has won the first ever Luxepack Shanghai In Green Award, achieving the highest level of industry recognition for eco-friendly packaging innovation for the second time in six months.

Being the 7th wealthiest club on the planet is not a matter of winning stuff for the fans but about maintains brand recognition and generating a reliable rent that keeps the board in a life style we are accustomed to so if Arsene delivers on the bottom line for the board that is how we judge his managerial competence because we are a business first and a football club second, as long as he achieves 4 th place and cl spot he has a guaranteed job....

After that the story has changed, and their San Mames Stadium is a fortress which no one manage to counquer.This year Bilbao have won all four home games in Europe league.To contrast, and to give more recognitions to Bilbao 4 - 2 win in the first match, Schalke have lost just twice this year at their Gelsenkirchen.

In a system where the mayor has to win more than 50 % of combined first and second preferences, this recognition was a major factor in their victories.

But Sanders has monopolized labor endorsements in the race and enjoys the inertia of incumbency — plus the 15 years of name recognition he's built up in the area since he won his first election for the City Council in 2001.

There are a few young Republicans who made their first attempts at public office this year and won some name recognition, although they were not successful.

Then, in 2001, Suozzi won his first of two terms as Nassau County executive, giving him strong name recognition across the suburban county.

Nonetheless, the struggle to win recognition for British Sign Language (BSL) as the first and authentic language of an estimated 50 000 people in the deaf community in Britain continues.

He gained particular acclaim for his portrayal of Valmont in a West End production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, eventually reprising his role for the Broadway production and winning a Tony nomination.In 1988, Rickman got his first dose of big - screen recognition with Die Hard.

He has been composing movie soundtracks since the mid -»70s, and first won acclaim and recognition for his Oscar - winning score of Chariots of Fire (1981).

With the screenplay written by Sylvester Stallone, who first established worldwide recognition as a writer when his screenplay Rocky, won the Academy Award ® in 1976 for Best Picture, Homefront is based on the book by Chuck Logan.

Even taking into the account the Brit favouritism that got her here in the first place, I can't imagine Tilda Swinton's performance sparking enough enthusiasm to give her a second straight win here, while I suspect it was name recognition alone that got Adams here ahead of her more - admired co-star.

In Sarasota, Shiel discovers that Chubbuck has been broadly forgotten, and like many of us, the first glimmer of recognition that triggers Shiel's connection with Chubbuck is the echoes of her suicide in Peter Finch's Oscar - winning performance in Sidney Lumet's Network (1976).

A Fantastic Woman is now favored to win Best Foreign Language Film next month, but it is by no means the first trans narrative to gain recognition from the academy.

The National Council for the Social Studies has named the first five teachers to win «advanced certification» through its newly created national teacher recognition program.

Takeshi Obata first achieved international recognition as the artist of the wildly popular Weekly Shonen Jump title, HIKARU NO GO, which won the 2003 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize: Shinsei «New Hope» Award and the 2000 Shogakukan Manga Award.

Microsoft just doesn't have the brand power, loyalty and recognition that Sony and Nintendo do especially worldwide and they definitely don't have the first party studios that pump out those classics, goty award winning exclusives hell Xbox doesn't even have exclusives anymore which is why I have no desire to upragrade from my x1 to a Scorpio.

Thanks to the likeable characters, fun puzzles, and enchanting visual design, both games received high praise, with the first Syberia game winning awards from various gaming sites and even recognition from American news channel CNN, who said that Syberia brought back the adventure genre.

This year for the first time, the Applied Game Awards was given as a recognition of not only to the award - winning game and its developers, but also to the entire serious gaming sector.

The bookies tell us that Philipsz is the favourite to win — a good result, if only because it will be the first time that sound art has received this kind of recognition (and if you want to find out more about what she does, we ran a video interview with her last Friday).

Wood first gained recognition 1930, when his painting «American Gothic» won a medal from the Art Institute of Chicago.

After World War II, Smith became the closest counterpart among sculptors to New York School painters such as Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, who first won world recognition for contemporary American art.

Suggesting the self - consciousness of celebrity culture, Ofili plays with the multivalent experience of his international recognition — the previous year he had been awarded the Turner Prize, the first black artist to have won and the only painter since Howard Hodgkin in 1985.

Kwade gained her first official recognition with the Piepenbrock Förderpreis for Sculpture she won in 2008, granting her an exhibition at the Berlin's Hamburger Bahnhof.

You should know that Kennedy has the industry recognition to back it up: She's been nominated multiple times for Toast of the Resume Industry (T.O.R.I.) awards, she's won the «Best Executive Resume» award, and her company has the distinction of being the first to ever receive seven nominations in one year.