Sentences with phrase «winning a money prize»

He tells how he began in childhood winning a money prize in a sack race (which he fears made him technically a professional ever since), took up track in high school and in his junior year at Carleton College won the mile and the 880 in the Midwest Conference championships.

Short stories and creative nonfiction pieces are easier to get published and you may even get paid or win a money prize.

Not exact matches

THURSDAY Island - based artist Brian Robinson has won the Western Australian Indigenous Art Award, receiving $ 50,000 in prize money.

A group of former wrestlers - turned financial gurus who have worked at some of America's top financial firms have pooled their own money with charitable donors» to grant larger cash prizes to wrestlers who win Olympic medals, The New York Times reports.

EcoScraps's business plan took second prize in BYU's Social Venture Competition and won a grant from Sparkseed, a nonprofit fund that provides seed money and mentoring services to social entrepreneurs.

We won the prize money, developed the site and were able to recently secure $ 1.7 million in funding from some of the biggest investors in the world.

If my expected value for playing the game, based on the cost of playing and the probabilities of winning different prizes, is positive, then, in the long run, the game will make me money.

For Jen Barnett, winning two business - plan competitions was about more than just prize money and bragging rights — it made the difference between launching her company and not.

Enter to win prizes like Trader Joe's gift cards, and you can save money.

The fact that the prize was won — we had set a deadline of December 31, and this is October 4, and there's two months left of the money, which was backed by an insurance policy that would've vaporized.

On Friday, she won again, bringing her total prize money to $ 62,001.

Whether it's income from a job or income from gambling, the state where the money is won will tax the prize first at their out - of - state tax rate (assuming the state taxes lottery winnings).

How would your excitement change if you still won that million dollars, but the prize money wouldn't arrive for 25 years?

haha jews make up 0.2 percent of the world's population and they have won 18 percent of all nobel prizes, jews give money to charity which a lot of christians (vice pres biden) refuse to do... jews are teachers, lawyers, doctors, inventors.

You could be world famous and win Nobel prizes and money which you then could use to help rid the world of other lies.

«It's so important to me, first, because it pays the highest prize money ever offered and, second, because I want to see if I can win the toughest one after a long exhausting season.»

It's a prestigious trophy with prize money that we have never won before

I understand the hold - ups as it seems to be not the largest academy in a smaller country trying to get as much money for their prized assets as they can... I'll actually be disappointed if this doesn't go through... Nwakali is the captain of the u17 world - cup winning squad and player of the tournament.

If they're good enough, they can win prize money and notoriety.

Five members from Team Liquid won the Dota 2 World Championship — picking up the $ 10.8 million prize money along the way, but Liquid also has specialist teams for LoL, CS: GO, Halo, FIFA and several other games.

How can we have great racing all the way through the field and unexpected results if some teams (cough, Ferrari, cough) are getting extra money just for showing up and backmarker teams are struggling to win considerably less prize money.

TENNIS — Before 14,761 at Madison Square Garden, 41 - year - old PANCHO GONZALES outlasted Rod Laver, the top - ranked pro, to win a two - hour 45 - minute match 7 - 5, 3 - 6, 2 - 6, 6 - 3, 6 - 2 and the $ 10,000 prize money in the opening round of the Tennis Champions, Inc. $ 200,000 Classic.

I don't believe Ozil has been worth his money so far this season and Sanchez may well be after assurances regarding the direction the club are heading towards but what if it's not the players but the club who are delaying the negotiations, after all top players who earn top money win the top prizes and oh but we've won?

It's readily apparent that this year's winners — Chauncey Needham, who hit a $ 136,800 jackpot in the calcutta, and Mike Souchak, who shot a 7 - under - par 281 to win the tournament itself, $ 10,000 in prize money and a gift of around $ 12,000 from Needham's calcutta share — bested some pretty rough competition.

Whoever wins will get prize money and the title of the newly - created «Official Endurance eSports Category» established by the ACO.

Below is the confirmed prize money breakdown from 2014 - 15 season where Chelsea won the league accumulated around # 98.99 million while bottom side QPR earned # 64.8 million.

If Leicester City were to win the Premier League they will pocket as much as # 93 million in premier league prize money compared to # 71.6 m they earned last year.

He has rarely taken prize money in recent years, and betting on the birds, a big thing in New York City where a man can win $ 6,000 on a race, is a practice he avoids.

Their offspring had earned Coburn and Perry more than $ 2.3 million in prize money before the Preakness, also chalking up wins at the Santa Anita Derby, San Felipe Stakes and California Cup Derby.

We are less than one year away from FIFA World Cup 2014 and the excitments thrills and preparations for the big event started with the FIFA Confederations Cup 2013 in Brazil which the home side won it and now the countdown begins for the ultimate sporting event, the biggest in the world and in terms of prize money it ranks one of the most paying event.

With wins at Newbury and Caterick too, Fahey broke through the # 3 million mark with prize money.

Ozil, 26, helped Arsenal win the FA Cup for the second successive season, donating his prize money to

The prize money for the winning team is $ 10.5 million.

Aside from this grand prize winner, four additional winners plus one guest each will also win air travel to Los Angeles, two nights stay, and spending money to meet Katy Perry at the VIP Winners Celebration.

Following the conclusion of the national Bark for Your Park contest where Orland Park failed to win any prize money, village officials last week moved forward with a backup plan to build a three - acre park for the village's pups.

Speaking about the prize monies, Margaret said though they were told of the prize money, eventually when they won, they were told they wouldn't give them the entire cash.

Ironically, a Beauty Pageant that for many years seem to struggle to honour prizes won by contestants and is said to exploit contestants to raise unfeasible large sums of money from corporate Ghana is suddenly well placed financially, to hire the «expensive services» of one of the foremost law firms in Ghana, Akufo - Addo, Prempeh & Co..

The companies say that a player's skill is the dominant factor in whether they win money, and say their contests have set prizes and entry fees — not bets and payouts.

«What I really want to focus on, whether we win the big prize, or smaller size, is to make sure we are really using the money effectively in public - private partnerships to create jobs here in the Rochester area,» Robach told WXXI News.

The Rice Biochar Group won the $ 10,000 grand prize in the city's «Recycle Ike» contest and used the money to jump - start a wide - ranging research program that has since received support from the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, Rice's Faculty Initiative Fund, Rice's Shell Center for Sustainability and Rice's Institute of Bioscience and Bioengineering.

The weakness the couple exploit arises in the weeks after no one wins the jackpot and the extra money is poured into smaller prizes.

Who is so sure he'll win the Nobel that he includes the presumed prize money in negotiations with his estranged wife?

As predicted by the researchers, those in the «immoral money» group filled out fewer raffle tickets to win the Walmart cash prize.

Pendlebury would put his money on three cancer, and particularly leukemia, researchers to win the physiology or medicine prize this year or in the next few years: Druker, of the Oregon Health & Science University in Portland; Lydon, formerly of the healthcare company Novartis; and Sawyers, of Memorial Sloan - Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.

In an early example, the $ 25,000 New York - to - Paris Orteig Prize, won by Charles Lindbergh in 1927, had nine entrants, seven of whom spent more than the amount of the prize money in their attempt.

This year's prize money was «earmarked» in an effort to promote smarter investments from winning designers.

The story revolves around a young guy Jason Mewes from Minnesota going to Hollywood to win a bar competition in order to collect the $ 10,000 prize money to save his father's steak house.

Super skater Bart Simpson is the favorite to win the whopping $ $ Mega-bucks $ $ prize of $ 99, but Homer, Krusty, and many others are going to show just what they're capable of when money's at stake.

60 Minutes Sports, Season 2015, Episode 9: Sporting the best boats, equipment and crews, hundreds of deep sea fisherman come to Maryland once a year to fish for the rare white marlin and win prize money that can exceed a million dollars.

Horse Money won Costa what is traditionally regarded as the festival's third - place prize, while a surprise second - place Leopard went to Alex Ross Perry's disagreeable comedy Listen Up, Philip — disagreeable not in its success (it works quite well), but in its protagonist, the detached, anxiety - ridden, pathologically narcissistic writer Philip Friedman (Jason Schwartzman).