I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a council awards sth (= gives someone something, especially money )
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The Scottish Arts Council has awarded grants totalling over £30,000.
accept an award
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Miller accepted the award for best comedy show.
an awards ceremony (= to give people prizes for good achievements )
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the annual television awards ceremony
award a company a contract (= give them a contract )
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The state of Kentucky has awarded the firm a $10m contract.
award/give (a team) a penalty
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The referee awarded Bradford a penalty in the final minute.
be awarded a degree formal (= get one )
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At the end of the three years, he was awarded a first-class honours degree.
be awarded a medal
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The book was awarded the Carnegie Medal.
be awarded compensation (= be given it )
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Many victims have been awarded compensation by the courts.
be given/awarded custody (= be legally allowed to have it )
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The court will decide who will be given custody.
discretionary award/grant/fund etc
give/award sb a grant
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If you have been awarded a grant, you must send the details to the university.
give/award sb a point
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I was awarded 17 points out of 20.
posthumously awarded
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He was posthumously awarded the Military Cross.
prize/award/medal etc winner
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a Nobel prize winner
receive a prize/award/gift etc
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He went up to receive his award from the mayor.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
annual
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Then the association presented its annual awards for distinction in art history, art, and criticism.
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The winners will be announced at the annual award ceremony on March 18.
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The annual award is for the trainee deemed to have made the greatest contribution to the Trainee Solicitors Group.
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So let the Review Board eat its words, when I win the annual all-industry award for originality.
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Both schemes include an annual awards event and regular newsletters.
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The annual award is normally given to a boss providing the worst pay and conditions but because of unemployment no one is making nominations.
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The rosebowl is the company's annual award for consistent high quality service to customers.
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The annual award is to promote and encourage imaginative projects and management of wild game conservation and its habitat.
discretionary
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Hon. Members must recall that these are, after all, discretionary awards .
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They can, however, apply for a discretionary award from their local education authority.
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If authorities are failing to increase their spending on discretionary awards commensurately, that is their decision.
high
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Bangor's share is the second highest award and follows £830,000 given to University College, Cardiff.
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But a string of appeals ordered by the City Council led to heavy interest and the higher award .
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The highest award was £307,781 to a computer expert who injured his back helping a store detective stop a suspected shoplifter.
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Works manager Geoff Smith said that, to his knowledge, this is the highest award ever received in component manufacturing.
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So again, credit transfer would allow this student to gain the higher award on the completion of six more credits.
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He continued to win the highest show ring awards and was honoured by his fellow professionals with several testimonials.
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The highest possible award , the Stanhope Gold Medal, is only awarded once a year.
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In his youth, he was already accustomed to leading champion Clydesdales to the winning of the highest awards .
national
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As well as organising conferences and courses the group also helped set up a national awards scheme and backed a number of arts publications.
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Records of achievement for pupils, a flexible national curriculum, a home/school partnership agreements, and a national schools award .
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New awards in engineering practice are being developed to provide clear progression routes from the relevant national awards in engineering practice.
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The five-year project has resulted in a facelift for the line which has been recognised with several national awards .
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A new framework of national awards in engineering has been developed over the last few years.
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It has also just won its second national training award .
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The new national awards provide two types of qualification.
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In the academic year 1990/91, work by the staff of the Department led to two national awards .
prestigious
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The prizes, the most prestigious awards given for journalism, are presented annually by Columbia University.
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The entire white watch crew at Wallasey fire station received a prestigious award in recognition of their bravery at the triple rescue.
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The Nobel committee aimed well in choosing the anti-land mine campaigners for the prestigious award .
special
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The Federation's central council would organise a panel of judges and there would be a special , high-profile awards ceremony.
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The most typical reader will win a special golden bone award .
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Applicants with suitable experience in industry may qualify for special awards .
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A highlight of the evening will be the presentation of a special award to a local designer.
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Judging will take place in December with the winner selected from four finalists at a special awards dinner early in 1993.
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The thriving Teesside club also finished third in a special challenge award for the first 12 men home, underlining their strength-in-depth.
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In addition, a special award was made to Ludovic Kennedy for his outstanding contribution over many years in exposing miscarriages of justice.
top
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Read in studio One of the region's independent radio stations has won a top award at the radio Oscars.
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But we want more than just our top award decided by you, the readers.
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Read in studio A film explaining everything you ever wanted to know about hedgehogs has won a top award .
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Hogging the limelight ... top award for wildlife video.
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Wayne Williams took the top scorer's award and David Flinn was the chosen as the best young player.
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Without takers the college could lose two top research awards .
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He has bred four other champions and captured the top Dobermann awards of 1987, 1988 and 1989.
■ NOUN
ceremony
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Prime Minister John Major also sent a congratulatory message to the awards ceremony .
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All participants will receive free admission to the museum today, following a post-race breakfast and awards ceremony .
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He spent the morning in jovial mood as guest of honour at a sponsorship of the arts award ceremony .
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When my father won first prize, he was so excited he dropped his trophy during the awards ceremony .
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At this point, the award ceremony threatens to turn sour.
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And the much-touted Year of the Woman at the awards ceremony never materialized, either.
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The winners will be announced at the annual award ceremony on March 18.
pay
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In June 1990 during a strike of non-graduate teachers over their pay award , the government brought emergency regulations into force.
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Boots chief Sir James Blyth is among the bosses whose pay awards far outstripped rises in profits.
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In 1980, the procedure was a prelude to the obligatory pay award of the ministry of labour.
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But she criticised high pay awards to some council chief officials.
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She expected most of those who had applied for the pay award to be successful.
scheme
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As well as organising conferences and courses the group also helped set up a national awards scheme and backed a number of arts publications.
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The awards scheme , launched last year, aims to demonstrate how game shooting and conservation work for a better countryside.
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We would expand the Smart award scheme for small companies which has been constrained by funding resources.
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The Prince was visiting handicapped children being looked after by members of his father's award scheme .
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Each business unit, site and function will run its own local award scheme before the end of the year.
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Our aim is to encourage as many as possible to attain various levels within the award scheme .
winner
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There were sixteen award winners and eighteen commendations.
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Last year the award winners were those judged to be tops in the application of advanced manufacturing technology.
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The category award winners ranged from a housing co-operative in Dundee to a children's play area in an Essex village.
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If it wasn't up against such strong competition, it would have been an award winner .
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Drinks all round ... the family-run pub that's an award winner .
■ VERB
accept
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My voice was wobbling up and down like Sally Field accepting an award .
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They accepted their two awards in jeans and shirts.
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Health union negotiators said they would refuse to accept the award for Britain's 600,000 nurses, midwives and health visitors.
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As Nirvana accepted its award , singer Kurt Cobain opened his trousers zipper, causing the camera to abruptly pan away from him.
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Only one of the seven was on hand to accept the award .
announce
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The winners will be announced at the annual award ceremony on March 18.
collect
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Cote keeps leaping out of his seat to collect award after award.
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Celebrities including Michael Crawford and Peter Bowles saw her collect her bravery award .
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After collecting the award Reeves slipped it into a plastic carrier bag and shortly after dropped it.
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It was so embarrassing, I had to get up in front of hundreds of people and collect this award .
give
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Solar Wings of Wiltshire were given the award for their plane the Quasar.
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We have a dinner, give out awards .
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There were a few other awards given .
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Peterson given award by Chamber Rep.
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The board refused to give reasons for its award .
make
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Some interviewers make a grid and award marks against each heading.
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Moreover, the administrative cost of the procedure for making awards is high.
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Two universities have made awards to him in recognition of his scientific distinction.
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As well as the fashion design award , the Trust will also make an award to a local school for business enterprise.
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The first point to be noted is that the Court may make the award on the application of the injured person.
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A tribunal must make a compensatory award if it has made a basic award.
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This carefully-worded document rehearsed the arguments for making the joint award , while carefully avoiding any admission of the original mistake.
pick
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But the teenager looked remarkably self-assured as he embraced the film-makers and picked up his award .
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It seems that every time Robin sets sail in his venerable old craft he picks up some award or other.
present
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The purpose: to present an award recognizing special achievement in the fight against a learning disability known as dyslexia.
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He's been presenting awards aimed at encouraging safety at work, a challenge taken up in Oxfordshire's old folks homes.
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Hagey subsequently was presented with two civic awards for drawing San Diegans to the then-moribund Gaslamp Quarter.
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At the dinner, Gandhi repeated his plea to present the award .
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I presented 29 awards and was able to announce that a further 500 companies are committed to meeting this standard.
receive
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A team from Northern Ireland would only receive one of these awards .
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Grandcourt arrives late, and watches Gwendolen walk up to receive an award for shooting, the center of all eyes.
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Underlying Mr Singh's campaign has been an implication that boys receiving awards and honours have not really been deserving of them.
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As a specialist in pathology, physiology and pharmacology, Mrs Coll received many teaching awards .
win
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Rayleigh won the team award with Deben in second place.
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He's jealous of Tom's coaching ability and the fact that he wins all those writing awards .
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If Elaine wins the regional award next month, she will go through to the national final in May.
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While neither of these games will win awards for plotting or scripting, Duke has more going on.
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Read in studio A revolutionary type of microlight aircraft has won a design council award .
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The Zeenders had won ten Gold Cup awards from their peers in the food business.
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He now runs a highly successful production company which bears his name and wins award after award.
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In the eight years she's been showing the plants she's won hundreds of awards .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Paltrow won the "Best Actress" award .
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She received a $700 legal award against her ex-landlord.
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The award ceremony will be held at the National Film Theatre tonight.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An avid Everton supporter, Christopher was nominated for the award by a teacher.
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As is the custom at such ceremonies, we start with the lesser awards.
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Brian has won several local science awards and is computer club president and a member of the varsity bowling team.
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Cricket benefited by about £750,000 when the July awards of the Foundation for Sport and the Arts were announced.
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The prizes, the most prestigious awards given for journalism, are presented annually by Columbia University.
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You, the citizen, must pay for these awards in increased premiums, their advertisements say.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
posthumously
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For this he was posthumously awarded the Military Cross.
recently
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Was recently awarded £30,000 damages against Thames Valley Police for wrongful arrest and false imprisonment.
■ NOUN
certificate
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In 1863 she was awarded a first-class certificate .
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For the first time at the 1987/8 Awards Ceremony, prizes were awarded to National Certificate students.
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Each successful candidate was awarded a Course Certificate , along with various other presentations for merit.
compensation
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Damages are awarded by way of compensation to the plaintiff for the loss suffered. 2.
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But the magistrate awarded De Pace £800 compensation for anxiety and sleepless nights, £74 for dental bills and £640 legal costs.
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The tribunal can award you up to £14,000 compensation or order your reinstatement.
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The Resident Magistrate said he had considered the matter of compensation but had decided not to award compensation.
contract
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Coun Davies added that the exploration contracts would be awarded in the New Year.
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The VitaPro contract is among several awarded by the prison agency that are now the focus of state and federal criminal investigations.
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The contracts are to be awarded in October, and will take effect from April 1999.
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The 30 % set-aside did not apply to city contracts awarded to minority-owned prime contractors.
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The contract , the largest awarded to date to Magellan's workplace division, is for one year with four option years.
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Competitive tendering is a system whereby contracts are awarded to the supplier who offers the best deal.
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It accounted for 60 percent of the contracts the federal government awarded to minority companies last year.
costs
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Similar considerations apply in the county court which also has the power to award costs .
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The court has no power to award further costs .
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The judges awarded the Home Office costs , but granted leave to appeal to the House of Lords.
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Their lawyers, who were awarded costs thought to be between £2m and £3m, estimate total compensation at £6m to £7m.
court
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Initially only the High Court had jurisdiction to award provisional damages.
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A Louisiana court awarded a customer $ 3, 0 after she had been falsely accused of shoplifting in a clothing store.
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What court is going to award custody of a five-year-old girl to a single man who's constantly overseas on business?
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The court awarded the islanders their legal costs.
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The answer reached by the court is that it awards a sum which is in the nature of a conventional award.
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The nightmare ended when a High Court judge agreed to award permanent custody to them.
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He can still settle or ask the court to award damages on the old basis of including something for the future risk.
custody
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What court is going to award custody of a five-year-old girl to a single man who's constantly overseas on business?
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After the breakup the parents were awarded joint custody and Tom resided for part of the week with each.
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The Browns have been critical of the judge since she awarded Simpson custody .
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The nightmare ended when a High Court judge agreed to award permanent custody to them.
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A judge awarded Simpson full custody of the children in December.
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A New York judge awarded custody of the boy to Leo in 1994 and allowed Heard to see him every other weekend.
damages
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Provided the discrimination was not indirect and unintentional, damages can be awarded to take account of injury to feelings.
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Punitive damages can be awarded when false statements are made maliciously.
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This they had failed to do, and, as a result, damages were awarded for breach of fiduciary duty.
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In Texas, for instance, the total amount of punitive damages awarded between 1968 and 1971 was $ 85, 000.
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The writer knows of no case prior to 1964 in which exemplary damages were awarded in a personal injuries claim.
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It provides that such damages can be awarded as are proportioned to the injury resulting from the death to the dependants respectively.
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However, over the years firm limitations have been placed upon damages that can be awarded by the courts.
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As with race discrimination, damages can not be awarded if the discrimination is found to have been unintentional.
degree
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He was awarded a law degree at the Sorbonne, where he flirted with the extreme right.
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According to Grabo, in 1997 the U.S. awarded 1.1 million bachelor degrees , of which only 65,000 were in engineering.
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From 1969 it was awarding honorary degrees .
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The universities of Manchester, St Andrews, and Cambridge awarded him honorary degrees in 1919.
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He was awarded several honorary degrees in recognition of this intellectual and institutional contribution.
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In their honour ... The University will award honourary degrees at the graduation ceremonies on 1 and 2 July.
diploma
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By the 1830s, some 50 students yearly were awarded a diploma .
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Polytechnics will be able to call themselves universities and to award degrees and diplomas .
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In 1871 the Lowe-Vansittart propeller was awarded a first-class diploma at the Kensington exhibition, followed by similar awards worldwide.
grant
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It may also be possible to award grants of lesser value to applicants not elected as the Fellow.
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The alliance will use the two-week inventory to award grants to local groups for making improvements.
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The committee awarded a £300 grant towards starting the project in December 1989.
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The Royal Lyceum in Edinburgh, I believe, had a recent £200,000 deficit, but has been awarded a larger grant .
judge
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However, the judges awarded it one of the fifth prizes for a War Department design.
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The Browns have been critical of the judge since she awarded Simpson custody.
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Fortunately the judges agreed, and awarded it the first prize.
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But, in addition, Weeks' lawyers asked the judge to award them $ 3. 8 million in fees.
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Three times that day the judges awarded the maximum 30 points for a single ride.
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A judge awarded Simpson full custody of the children in December.
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The judges awarded the Home Office costs, but granted leave to appeal to the House of Lords.
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A New York judge awarded custody of the boy to Leo in 1994 and allowed Heard to see him every other weekend.
jury
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In compensation, a jury had awarded Nicole US$2,200,000 in damages and a further US$5,300,000 in non-economic damages.
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A jury awarded the plaintiffs a total of $ 135, 000 in damages.
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The jury awarded him the libel raspberry - a halfpenny - so he was forced to pay for the whole action.
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The jury awarded the plaintiff $ 2. 8 million, an award Mr Goens says was based on the facts.
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The jury awarded Hayward £50,000, and the Court of Appeal upheld the verdict because the article was capable of implying guilt.
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In 1994, a jury awarded him more than half a million dollars for wrongful termination from the utility in 1990.
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The jury awarded punitive damages of £40,000 against Irving, and a further £40,000 against Cassell.
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C., jury awarding Food Lion $ 5. 5 million in damages for fraud and trespassing.
mark
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Then we had a lunch break during which time the Head went round and awarded marks for the cleanest class.
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While Hyacinth awarded marks , others, just as predatory, were giving her the eye.
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And as a result has awarded it top marks and a prestigious regional Quality Brickwork Award.
medal
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President of the Institute of Metals in 1938-40, he was awarded their platinum medal in 1941.
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For that he was awarded his first life-saving medal .
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Emma, who presently works in corporate finance, was awarded the IoT medal and Butterworth prize for the highest overall marks.
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When the corps was disbanded it was mentioned in dispatches and Gandhi and several comrades were awarded the War Medal .
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He was awarded the Symons gold medal of the Royal Meteorological Society in 1944.
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He was awarded the silver medal of the Mozarteum in 1950.
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Those awarded congressional gold medals have not led sainted lives.
pay
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I hope that the people who have awarded themselves excessive pay rises will hear that from me and the hon. Gentleman.
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Some administrators even used them to award merit pay to teachers.
peace
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He would be re-elected for Haggerston in 1900 and in 1903 would be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
penalty
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Referee Mark Russell awarded a penalty against Dooley, but made no mention of it in his report.
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The referee awarded a penalty and, after consulting the linesman, ordered an early bath for Sansome.
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Under the new law I would still be able to award a penalty try.
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Morrison awarded them a contentious penalty try after Leicester's pack brought down Bath's drive from a lineout.
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During this spell the Lions went 35 minutes without being awarded a penalty but conceded 10.
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The umpires awarded a thirty-yard penalty to South Sussex.
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I would also like the team awarded a penalty and gaining ground to be given the line-out throw-in.
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To add insult to injury, Palace, attacking with renewed vigour, were then awarded a doubtful penalty .
points
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The portal was to be called Peeled and would have awarded executives with loyalty points after they shopped via the site.
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Three times that day the judges awarded the maximum 30 points for a single ride.
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In a little ceremony after dinner a neighbour lined up four of us to award points for each of Polly's dishes.
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I was awarded seventeen points out of twenty but judging by the worried looks and furrowed brows there were some lower scores.
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I suspect they award points for skill in flying and for artistic achievement too!
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Psychologically, it is sound to award points for success.
prize
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Fortunately the judges agreed, and awarded it the first prize .
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That's why we award Ig Nobel prizes .
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Jane Addams was awarded the Nobel Prize for her inventive work with underprivileged women and children.
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Entrants for the Cup need not be members, but the 100K Association will award special prizes for members.
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His score for the film Louisiana Story was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1948.
scholarship
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He was awarded a scholarship to Harvard in our senior year, the only one in the history of Hollybush High.
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At ten she was awarded a choral scholarship to a private school in London.
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The school is the only institution ever to be awarded the scholarship two years in a row.
sum
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The answer reached by the court is that it awards a sum which is in the nature of a conventional award.
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He asked the court to prohibit Weisser from publishing the notes and to award him a sum of money as damages.
trophy
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Teams from the Republic, if they win the Milk Cup, are also automatically awarded two other trophies .
winner
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Regular stops are planned en-route and medals and cups will be awarded to the winners .
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Its 8, 000 members vote for Independent Spirit award winners .
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Generous cash prizes from the Northern Bank will be awarded to winners in four categories at a special presentation ceremony.
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The green jersey is awarded for the winner of the race on points.
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Cash prices will be awarded to three winners in the general category and one in the poetry section.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A woman who suffered brain damage during an operation has been awarded $300,000 in compensation.
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She was awarded the Nobel Prize for her work in medical research.
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The management have awarded all factory employees a 5% pay increase.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Four other firms are here too, and the long-established Mancunian company Demmy has recently been awarded the seventh licence.
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Grants awarded: Grants worth £65,048 have been awarded to local development agencies by Cleveland County Council.
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He was awarded the £40 he had been ordered to pay in excess fares plus interest plus costs.
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I hope that the people who have awarded themselves excessive pay rises will hear that from me and the hon. Gentleman.
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Prizes supplied by the Longman Group will be awarded.
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Ted's efforts for our club were fully recognised by everyone at Crystal Palace and he was awarded a Benefit in 1920-21.
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The 20-year franchise has been awarded to Govia, which operates Thames Trains and Thameslink.
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Venues awarded a Heartbeat logo in the council's healthy eating campaign are also identified.