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Example sentences for "awarded"

Lexicographically close words:
awakens; awakes; awaking; awanting; award; awarding; awards; aware; awareness; awash
  1. Denmark, Norway, and Sweden have fully appreciated him, and have shown him that they do so, and whenever it is asked who occupies the first place in the kingdom of mind, the palm is always awarded to him.

  2. Danish government, namely, that beside the considerable sum expended yearly, for the travelling expenses of young literary men and artists, a small pension shall be awarded to such of them as enjoy no office emoluments.

  3. About twenty years later, the Royal Academy of Sciences awarded him the first prize for his essay on the question: "Are metaphysical truths susceptible of mathematical demonstration?

  4. In this action Captain Le Quesne, of the Army Medical Corps, showed conspicuous courage in attending to Lieutenant Michel, and was awarded the Victoria Cross.

  5. One of them might think the sentences awarded by the magistrates too severe; his successor might pronounce them to be too lenient.

  6. Then I proceeded to fix in my own mind what ought to be the outside sentence that should be awarded for that particular offence had it stood alone; and from that I deducted every circumstance of mitigation, provocation, etc.

  7. I am now quite certain that no sentence can be properly awarded unless after such consideration.

  8. The Royal Society awarded Murdock their large Rumford Gold Medal for his communication.

  9. In the latitude of Portsmouth this only amounted to eighteen geographical miles, whereas the Act had awarded that the prize should be given where the longitude was determined within the distance of thirty geographical miles.

  10. Happily, the large sum which the arbitrators awarded him for the removal of his printing presses enabled him to tide over the difficulty; he stood his ground unshaken, and his character in the trade stood higher than ever.

  11. For this, the British Government afterwards awarded to Mayer's widow the sum of 5000L.

  12. The prize was awarded to Mr. James Beeching, of Great Yarmouth, whose plans were afterwards generally adopted by the Lifeboat Society.

  13. The prize was awarded to Stephenson's Rocket on the 14th; but it was acknowledged by The Times of the day that the Novelty was Stephenson's sharpest competitor.

  14. But why did he prohibit me from relating this incident to others, and what species of death will be awarded if I disobey?

  15. Deliverance from mortal fetters is awarded to this being, and thou art the minister of this decree.

  16. Later I went to see him in Zanzibar Hospital, and told him he had been awarded the D.

  17. At the Atlanta Exposition, two years ago, Florida was awarded the first premium for sea island cotton, rice, and sugar.

  18. The honor due to the first discovery of the land which now constitutes the southern extremity of the United States is generally awarded to that famous and eccentric old Spanish adventurer, Juan Ponce de Leon.

  19. One who contests; an opponent; a litigant; a disputant; one who claims that which has been awarded to another.

  20. A prisoner shall be able to earn on each weekday 8, 7, or 6 marks, according to the degree of his industry; and on Sunday he shall be awarded marks according to the degree of his industry during the previous week.

  21. I was frequently struck by the vast difference in the sentences awarded in what appeared to me to be parallel cases, and tried in vain to discover any system that might be supposed to regulate them.

  22. The Royal Society medals were awarded as follows: Royal Medal to Prof.

  23. The Cretaceous Rocks of the British Isles," and other geological works; awarded the Murchison medal in 1901.

  24. When he had money he spent it royally in tarts for himself and his friends, and had been known to disburse nine and sixpence out of ten shillings awarded to him in a single day.

  25. Mr. Osborne was as proud of him as ever he had been of the elder George, and the child had many more luxuries and indulgences than had been awarded to his father.

  26. A footnote to this list said that Gassau-Marina was one of the three men decorated that day who had previously been awarded the Order of the German Eagle, Second Class, by German Ambassador to Spain, General Wilhelm von Faupel.

  27. The second prize was awarded to John Dean Ringer, second son of Mr. and Mrs. Bradford Ringer.

  28. The third prize was given to Harry Hardenburg; and an impromptu fourth prize was awarded to a colored baby.

  29. The liberalization of Macao's gambling monopoly may contribute to GDP growth, as the three companies awarded gambling licenses have pledged to invest $2.

  30. Arbitration eventually awarded the island to France, which took possession in 1935.

  31. No doubt many delicate minds will be indignant at the bare thought of these ignoble substantial rewards awarded to the most ethereal thing in the world,--Virtue!

  32. By a magnanimity, perhaps unexampled before in the Temple, the rivals of Mother Bouvard made no disturbance at the preference awarded to her.

  33. For this you are awarded five red beads, Miss Burrell, for fire is red and fire is the enemy that you overcame.

  34. Every time a girl did something of merit she was awarded an honor, these being bestowed in the form of colored wooden beads.

  35. The Leland prize was awarded to Thollon for a hand drawing he made of the prismatic spectrum obtained with bisulphide of carbon prisms of high dispersive power.

  36. In 1904 he was awarded the Janssen medal of the Astronomical Society of France for his researches on Mars.

  37. Under these circumstances Alexander thought it best to invite the French king into Italy, bargaining with Louis that he would dissolve his marriage in return for protection awarded to Cesare.

  38. It would be easy, following in the steps of Tiraboschi, to describe the patronage awarded in the fifteenth century to men of letters by princes--the protection extended by Nicholas III.

  39. One of them was the "Grand Prize," and was awarded to a poem, called "The Educator.

  40. Furthermore, Aristotle, in his Problems, determines the question, why the ancients proposed prizes to the stronger in gymnastic and corporeal contests, but never awarded any prize for wisdom.

  41. In so much did we receive those who brought books, that the multitude of those who had preceded them did not lessen the welcome of the after-comers, nor were the favours we had awarded yesterday prejudicial to those of to-day.

  42. Among all these young men of learning and talent, the superiority in almost every department of intellect seems to have been, by the ready consent of all, awarded to Matthews.

  43. Can we be astonished at it, when we reflect that this senseless, wicked criticism succeeded to, and contrasted strangely with, the praises awarded by such judges as Mackenzie and Lord Woodhouse?

  44. If I could have guessed the high degree of attention that has been awarded to them, I should certainly have made all possible efforts to merit it.

  45. The testimony given, the absolution awarded by this impartial, incorruptible judge, whom he had never ceased to consult, became sufficient for him.

  46. Gambling let it be," shouted Lucifer, as the prize was thus awarded by acclamation to the distinguished inventor of Gambling.


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