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A place awarded to a less-qualified princeling is a place denied to a more qualified applicant.
Now that Russia’s athletic dreams have been revived, to some extent, Putin may be prepared to suspend his quest for military glory temporarily – not least out of fear that the 2018 FIFA World Cup, awarded to Russia, could be moved elsewhere.
The Revolt of China’s Twittering ClassesBEIJING – Last week, Liu Xiaobo was awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China.
Children are awarded higher grades for writing sentences exactly like the ones they see in textbooks than for coming up with ideas of their own.
In 1996, Liverpool striker Robbie Fowler was awarded a penalty for being fouled by the Arsenal goalkeeper.
And it drew a standing ovation from all but one of the 1,200 illustrious members of the audience in Frankfurt’s Pauluskirche, where Walser was being awarded the German Booksellers Association Peace Prize.
For Obama, success would vindicate the Nobel Peace Prize that he was awarded in 2009.
Nobel prizes are not awarded for constructing new historical estimates of GDP that allow policy analysis to be extended back in time.
The Curing MachineVIRGINIA BEACH – Last year, the Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded for a discovery that took 44 years to develop, and involved two different research teams.
For his tenacity, CPJ awarded him our International Press Freedom Award in 1998.
Robert Mwanga was awarded this year’s World Food Prize for inspiring work that resulted in the large-scale replacement of white sweet potato (with scant Vitamin A content) by a vitamin A-rich alternative in the diets of Uganda’s rural poor.
Israel and Palestine should jointly bid for, and be awarded, the Football World Cup in 2018.
My own research, carried out with Zhuan Xie and Xiaobo Zhang, shows that Chinese firms – especially in the private sector – have lately accelerated innovation, and are being awarded an increasing number of patents at home and abroad.
Each state is awarded a certain number of votes in the Electoral College, depending on the size of its population.
In almost every state, a candidate who wins 50.1% of the popular vote is awarded 100% of its electoral votes.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the prize, but Sweden was also an advanced social democracy.
First, consider how the games are awarded to a host city.
To make room for the 32 sport venues, the athletes’ Olympic Village, the broadcasting and media center, the ceremonial green space, and to beautify the surrounding landscape, the Rio government has evicted more than 77,000 residents from shantytowns or favelas since 2009, the year the city was awarded the Games.
For example, the EU recently set aside 300 million tradable emission allowances, to be awarded to innovative renewable energy projects or CO2 storage projects.
From the beginning, the inner world of those entrusted to make recommendations was marked by personal and principled discord over how to interpret Alfred Nobel’s cryptic will and to whom prizes should be awarded.
When Barroso, the former Portuguese prime minister, was awarded the EU post by his fellow heads of government, he appeared to be a dynamic new broom who would sweep away the cobwebs left by his predecessor, Italy’s Romano Prodi.
When I was teaching at the National School of Administration in the 1980s, I saw the “happy few” who had passed the school’s highly selective entry exams being awarded their own cars and personal drivers.
I’ve been awarded the Nobel Prize for something I seem to have said, or done, or thought, in 1934!”Discoveries can come from unforeseen directions, as seemingly unrelated and obscure research areas intersect unexpectedly.
The United Nations designated 2005 as the International Year of Microcredit, and when the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank the following year, the Nobel committee declared microcredit “an ever more important instrument in the fight against poverty.”
Once refugees are made eligible for IDA grants, the World Bank could quickly raise funds – as much as $5 billion annually – by issuing bonds, using its recently awarded triple-A credit rating.
When he was awarded the Nobel in 2010, the Chinese authorities barred his family from travelling to Oslo to accept the prize, placed his wife under house arrest, and allowed her little contact with her husband.
The Age of EpigeneticsLONDON – Fifty-one years ago, James Watson, Maurice Wilkins, and Francis Crick were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for their discovery of DNA’s structure – a breakthrough that heralded the age of the gene.
Indeed, the 2012 Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka for revolutionizing scientists’ understanding of how cells develop by reprogramming DNA and cells without altering their genetic structure.
The Nobel Prize and Einstein's GhostThis December 10 th marks the one hundredth anniversary of when the first Nobel Prizes were awarded.
But the Nobel Committee for Physics didn't agree, and for years no prize was awarded to Einstein!
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