in the case of a partnership or corporation, the existence of which has been terminated and on behalf of which an award is made, payment shall be made, except as provided in paragraphs ( 3 ) and ( 4 ), to the person or persons found by the Comptroller General of the United States to be entitled thereto ; ;

If the claim is unopposed, the Committee will generally award the claim, unless there is evidence of collusion, the peerage has been in abeyance for more than a century, or the petitioner holds less than one-third of the claim.

Hank Greenberg, Stan Musial, Alex Rodriguez, and Robin Yount have won at different positions, while Rodriguez is the only player who has won the award with two different teams at two different positions.

The award has never been presented to a member of the following five teams: Arizona Diamondbacks, Miami Marlins, New York Mets, Tampa Bay Rays, and Washington Nationals.

One award was presented for both leagues in 1947 and 1948 ; since 1949, the honor has been given to one player each in the National and American League.

The award has been shared twice: once by Butch Metzger and Pat Zachry of the National League in 1976 ; and once by John Castino and Alfredo Griffin of the American League in 1979.

The MVP award has been given to a player on the losing team twice, in 1986 to Mike Scott of the Houston Astros and in 1987 to Jeff Leonard of the San Francisco Giants.

If the ball has left the field along the sidelines, the referee must decide which team touched the ball last, and award a restart stroke to the opposing team, just like football's throw-in.

The award has been criticised for the types of books it covers.

As a result, Pasternak sent a second telegram to the Nobel Committee: " In view of the meaning given the award by the society in which I live, I must renounce this undeserved distinction which has been conferred on me.

He has also received the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award and a Distinguished Scientist Fellowship from the U. S. Department of Energy and the Norbert Gerbier / MUMM award from the World Meteorological Organization.

However, this is not the first time that the USAF has come under fire in the past for offering this award.

In order to promote the re-releases, Chaplin travelled to the US in 1972 for the first time in twenty years to receive a lifetime achievement award from the Lincoln Center Film Society and an Academy Honorary Award for " the incalculable effect he has had in making motion pictures the art form of this century ".

When he briefly returned to the United States in 1972, the Lincoln Center Film Society honoured him with a gala and awarded him a lifetime achievement award, which has since been awarded annually to filmmakers as The Chaplin Award.

In Australia, the group has won eleven ARIA Awards from 26 nominations, including the inaugural Best New Talent award in 1987.

Conciliation differs from arbitration in that the conciliation process, in and of itself, has no legal standing, and the conciliator usually has no authority to seek evidence or call witnesses, usually writes no decision, and makes no award.

Lynch has twice won France's César Award for Best Foreign Film, as well as the Palme d ' Or at the Cannes Film Festival and a Golden Lion award for lifetime achievement at the Venice Film Festival.

Perhaps the most famous nominal damages award in modern times has been the $ 1 verdict against the National Football League ( NFL ) in the 1986 antitrust suit prosecuted by the United States Football League.

The award is given annually to a composer who has made significant contributions to film and television music.

This seven-judge procedure has been modified as of the 2012 London Olympics: rather than eliminating one high and one low award and then reducing the total by as in previous international events, the two highest awards and the two lowest are disregarded, leaving three to be summed and multiplied by the difficulty rating.

In 2012, he was awarded the Erasmus Prize, an annual award for a person who has made an exceptional contribution to European culture, society or social science, " for his ability to translate the cultural significance of science and technology to a broad audience.

The Distinguished Service Medal ( DSM ) is a military award of the United States Army that is presented to any person who, while serving in any capacity with the United States military, has distinguished himself or herself by exceptionally meritorious service to the Government in a duty of great responsibility.

Vincent won the man of the match award for the second time in three days and helped secure Lancashire's qualifaction to the Quarter Finals where they were drawn to play Middlesex.

Philby found that the award proved helpful in obtaining access to fascist circles: " Before then ," he later wrote, " there had been a lot of criticism of British journalists from Franco officers who seemed to think that the British in general must be a lot of Communists because so many were fighting with the International Brigades.

A third criticism that is sometimes made is that PADI over-elaborates the training process, leading to the award of large numbers of different certificates, certification cards and embroidered patches for any diver who continues their diving education up to advanced levels.

In 2000, following criticism from producers that the existing award trophy did not have an attractive television appearance, CARAS commissioned a redesigned award from Stoney Creek, Ontario artist Shirley Elford.

Recently, the U. S. Open Cup has been the subject of criticism over its procedure of sealed bids to award home matches, which has resulted in DC United hosting 11 straight matches including two finals from 2008-2010, and Seattle Sounders FC hosting 11 of 14 matches in its three championship seasons from 2009 – 2011.

There was some criticism, however, of the Nobel committee's decision not to award the prize to Salvador Moncada, who had independently reached the same results as Ignarro.

Another criticism brought up against the men's nominations was that no player in activity outside of Europe was ever nominated for the award.

In 1995, columnist Frank Rich of The New York Times dubbed the award the " Kennedy Center Dishonors ", with particular criticism for the Honors Gala, which he described as " more mortifying with each passing year ":

While the album saw mixed reviews and received some criticism for over-using outside collaborators, Aerosmith won more awards during this time than any other, winning two Grammy Awards, four MTV Video Music Awards, two American Music Awards, a People's Choice award, and a Billboard Award.

" This award, while certainly of major importance, never was reported in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, probably due to Carrington's bitter, acrimonious and public criticism of Cambridge University over the appointment of John Adams as the non-observing Director of the Cambridge Observatory ( added to Adams's pre-existing academic duties as the Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Geometry.

" Despite the criticism, Soldier Field was given an award in design excellence by the American Institute of Architects in 2004.

The Cay received the Jane Addams Children's Book Award in 1970, but following criticism of the book, in 1976 the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom asked Taylor to return the award.

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Eliot Weinberger, one of the board members of the Circle, when he presented the list of nominations for the award, stated that Bawer's book was an example of " racism as criticism.

In response to the criticism they received over the award, Jethro Tull's record label took out an advertisement in Billboard magazine with a picture of a flute ( part of their trademark sound ) lying amid a pile of iron rebars and the line, " The flute is a heavy, metal instrument!

Despite the criticism, Wessels collected many player's accolades during his ODI career, including the " Man of the Series " award during the 1983 ODI series against the West Indies, as well as the " Man of the Match " award for his 81 not out against Australia in the 1992 World Cup.

The award was established by an anonymous group ( thought to have been instigated by Charles Brasch ) to be awarded each year to " writers of imaginative literature, including poetry, drama, fiction, autobiography, biography, essays or literary criticism.

The decision to penalise Montoya was met with a host of criticism, F1 Rejects even gave the Malaysian stewards their ' Reject of the Race ' award.

His philanthropic support of Penn State also extended to endowing a fellowship in business administration, a faculty chair in literary theory and comparative criticism, a creative writing award and a graduate assistantship in botany and plant pathology.

In early 2005, the award received some criticism, since only three of the 33 Swedish feature films that premiered in 2004 received nominations in seven main categories ( film, direction, actor, actress, supporting actor, supporting actress, screenplay ) and it was made public that some of the jury members had not seen all 33 films.

Since the first award in 1901, the prizes have occasionally engendered criticism and controversy.

The award, given in the first year of Obama's presidency, received criticism that it was undeserved, premature and politically motivated.