Sentences with phrase «rewarded with grant»

Good ideas and valid protocols were rewarded with grant money, despite the high level of competition.

Even worse, your errors are rewarded with grants and reknown.

Not exact matches

During the Civil War, President Lincoln rewarded Grant with a promotion to lieutenant general and made him general - in - chief of the armies.

Walt Disney Co shareholders rejected an executive compensation plan that could reward Chief Executive Officer Bob Iger with up to $ 48.5 million a year over four years plus an equity grant worth about $ 100 million, in a non-binding vote on Thursday.

Generally, it is recommended that if you spend at least $ 24,000 + per year with your credit card, the FlexPerks Travel rewards card is the better card between the two (U.S. Bank grants a 3,500 FlexPoints bonus at this level that can cover the annual fee).

I want to add to this list my own expressions of thanks to those who made what might have been a difficult undertaking a rewarding one instead: Ruth Hopewell, who gave me the privilege of editing the book and consistently aided me in doing so; the Directors of Auburn Seminary, who granted a generous leave for my work on the project in Atlanta; Jim Waits and Elizabeth Smith, who anticipated everything I would need for the work to be done comfortably and efficiently; Lurline and James Fowler, who provided housing and friendship; Channing Jeschke, Candler's librarian, who made available and helped to arrange Hopewell's books and papers; Brooks Holifield, who worked with me on the last and knottiest problems in the text; and David Kelsey, on whose encouragement and sagacity I relied heavily when my assignment seemed most formidable.

On his return, invested with the royal power in spite of the objections, the nobleman rewards the faithful grants of political power, rebukes the timid ones, and gives order that the citizens who objected to his appointment be put death.

Professionals in medicine should be accorded high respect and should be granted status and rewards commensurate with their special contribution to human welfare.

Created Race to the Top: With funds from stimulus, started $ 4.35 billion program of competîtive grants to encourage and reward states for education reform.

What He did say was that pursuit of money for money sake is wrong, however if God has granted a person gifts that are highly rewarded in society (athletics, art, business, technical) there is nothing wrong what soever with that.

But his rationale ends with an economically worded warning whose implications are exceedingly far - reaching and implicitly add a very strong rider to any conclusion that might be drawn from his doctrinal expose, such as that indulgences should be widely granted and the people strongly encouraged to use them: `... yet other works of satisfaction are more meritorious with respect to our essential reward, which is infinitely better than the remission of temporal punishment».

This was its linking belief in God with belief in posthumous careers for human persons, in spite of the fact that, in the Book of Job for instance, although the divine existence is there taken for granted, there is not a whisper about Heaven or Hell, or about posthumous rewards or punishments, or any other prolongations of a person's experiencing after death.

Some of David Cameron's closest special advisers were rewarded with bumper pay rises just months before the former prime minister granted them severance packages over and above what they were contractually entitled to, Civil Service World can reveal.

The government said this on Thursday, a day after a bill sponsored by the Senator representing Lagos Central, Mrs. Oluremi Tinubu, for the state to be recognised and rewarded with a special status and federal grants was rejected by the Senate.

His pre-k initiative is a $ 25 million competitive grant program that will reward winning districts with money to expand both full - and half - day pre-k.

Some people even attempted to lure them into dialogue, with a view to granting them amnesty, which, in Nigeria, comes with monetary reward.

You see, the government wants to reward productive research groups with grants, but its experts can not agree on how to measure research output.

Your team will only have a limited number of resurrections available, and additional rewards will be granted to those who defeat the weekly challenge with one of the top times across the megaserver.»

Players can experiment and choose from six different hunting styles, including two new ones called Brave Style, which rewards them with new moves for landing successive attacks; and Alchemy Style, a support style that grants the ability to create useful items during combat.

Players can experiment and choose from six different Hunting Styles including two new ones called Brave Style, which rewards players with new moves for landing successive attacks; and Alchemy Style, a support style that grants the ability to create useful items on the fly during combat.

Associating teacher evaluations with student performance, and rewarding teachers accordingly, is now all but taken for granted in state after state — and by prominent national figures, including President Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan.

And three weeks later their feelings — and hard work — were rewarded with a second - place finish and a promised grant of $ 700 million.

Granted, the boost to starting salaries is not as great as some advocates would like — the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce has called for starting salaries of $ 45,000 — but remember that this new schedule is based on the arbitrary decision to reward credentials that improve test scores by 1 percent of a standard deviation with a 1 percent boost in salary.

Rewards in the form of a waiver, or incentives in the form of a state innovation grant or site - based merit pay, could be included in a public academy contract with a host school district; so must corrective action policies for academic or fiscal malfeasance.

Meanwhile in the Senate a bill called the STAR (School Turnaround and Reward) Act has been introduced by Sen. Kay Hagan (D - NC) which deals with Turnaround schools and would further legitimize the four models introduced as a requirement for receiving School Improvement Grants.

The proposal, entitled Los Angeles» Bold Competition: Turning Around and Operating Its Low - Performing Schools, was rewarded this summer with a highly competitive $ 6 - million, three - year i3 grant.

The competition promises to be fierce as the departments will reward only a handful of states with grants ranging from $ 50 to $ 100 million, depending on each state's proposed plan and its population of children from low - income families.

In a political move to reward the AFT - CT for ramming through an endorsement of Dan Malloy, without even granting the other candidates [like myself] the opportunity to fill out a candidate questionnaire, meet with the AFT - CT PAC or address the AFT - CT Board of Directors, Malloy announced on August 21, 2014 that he was taking the unprecedented step of appointing Meriden AFT President Erin Benham to a four year position on the State Board of Education.

But opponents say Mr. Obama's attempt to reward states that adopt the standards with grants and waivers amounts to a backdoor grab for federal control over what is taught in schools.

According to Nonprofit Quarterly, the Gates Foundation is now threatening to pull an unprecedented $ 40 million grant from Pittsburgh's Public Schools «because the foundation is upset with the lack of an agreement between the school district and the teachers» union over a core element of the grant» — the use of test scores to measure teachers» value - added and to «reward exceptional teachers and retrain those who don't make the grade.»

Fewer than half the districts carried out all required components of the grant, potentially indicating implementation challenges with pay - for - performance systems.85 The relative impact of the programs evaluated depended on program design elements such as the amount of compensation provided, the link between individual efforts and rewards, and whether the funding is perceived as temporary or permanent (see sidebar on Washington D.C.'s IMPACT system).

Also grant a juicy rewards for purchases within Ritz - Carlton, Marriott and SPG ® properties together with huge signup bonus.

Moreover, with the Marriott Rewards ® Premier credit card you can move towards Elite status, which grants you additional perks and benefits when you use the Marriott Rewards ® Premier credit card.

Like the Capital One ® Venture ® Rewards Credit Card, the Capital One ® VentureOne ® Rewards Credit Card grants users 10x miles on hotels when they pay with their VentureOne card at hotels.com/Venture.

Travel With Grant reports American Express is changing the transfer ratio between American Express Membership Rewards points and British Airways Avios points.

Granted, many studies show that a lot of individual investors would actually be best off if they left their money in index funds over investing themselves, but then again, index funds don't reward you with the next 1000 % return growth stock or provide the investing options available in a typical employer sponsored plan or index fund.

«Everyone at Royal LePage Advance is so impressed with how the event came together and feels like the countless hours of planning were rewarded by the response from our community,» says Stephen Grant, president at Royal LePage Advance.

In order to reward loyal customers, LANPASS also grants an additional 2,000 bonus miles with each renewal.

The answer is somewhere in the middle of the road: you'd better have two — a card with low interest rate to be used in the emergency cases and the one granting you rewards.

The Citi Prestige ® Card also is a good choice for people interested in special events and entertainment — together with good rewards rate for entertainment purchases you can enjoy advantages of Citi Private Pass ® service that grants you access to VIP tickets to music, sports, theater and other events.

With a little research, you can find co-branded hotel rewards cards that not only grant you frequent flyer miles, but free nights in any resort bearing their brand.

Just would like to sum up with this question to your fellow editor about a curious number (pardon the pun): Under the «NO foreign transaction fee» Marriott Rewards Premier Visa section recommending it, it reads «Out of the three cards, this is the only one that's seriously worth considering for everyday use» despite it being «one of only two» cards listed side by side that have «annual fees» after the first year (with Barb's choice the second one that loves charging 2.5 % «foreign transaction fees» upfront / from the start on all foreign transactions rebating «afterwards» as «reward points» statement all of them «except on returns and cash advances» where the fees remain); however this article shows «more than three cards» (though granted the Amazon.ca Visa is unavailable now for the new applicant plus the missing Mogo Visa is a prepaid one and whereas this year's (2017) new $ 149 annual fee HSBC Premier World Elite MC is exclusively for their premier clients only) so which «three cards» in that statement there would we talking about here?

In addition to thousands of pets finding their forever homes, PetSmart Charities rewarded local adoption partners with $ 35 in adoption - reward grants for every pet adopted at the event.

PetSmart Charities also rewarded local adoption partners with $ 35 in adoption - reward grants for every pet adopted at the event.

«We're very excited to expand our line of dog treats with biscuits that serve as quicker treat rewards,» said Grant Adkins, senior vice president of marketing for Nylabone Products.

In addition to a good earning rate on Hilton hotel stays and everyday spending, the card grants automatic Hilton Honors Silver status, which qualifies you for a free fifth night with every five - night reward stay.

Grant noted that the points and miles community spends a lot of time obsessing about hotel loyalty programs such as Hilton HHonors, Marriott Rewards, Hyatt Gold Passport and the like, along with putting a heavy emphasis on premium rooms at luxury hotels such as the Park Hyatt Maldives.

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Since then I signed up for a Platinum Amex (with 100k Membership Rewards) that grants access to the Centurion Studio Seattle (as well as other Centurion Lounge locations such as Las... Read More»

The Platinum Card from American Express and the Premier Rewards Gold Card both offer annual airline travel credits, with the former granting you a $ 200 credit and the latter offering a $ 100 annual credit.