Kingdom of Sardinia or Sardinia, also ( not officially ) Piedmont-Sardinia, Sardinia-Piedmont or Piemonte, refers to the states of the House of Savoy from 1720 or 1723 onwards, following the award of the crown of Sardinia to King Victor Amadeus II of Savoy under the Treaty of The Hague ( 1720 ).

In countries such as the United Kingdom and Australia, the word diploma refers to a level of academic award.

It also refers to an award given yearly to the new automobile selected best by a jury of journalists for motor magazines in Europe.

The earlier date of 1925 sometimes given for the rare earth glass actually refers to an award received for glass design, not glass composition.

The September award covered traffic from 1994 to 2004, and the new claim refers to 2004 to 2009.

" Nominees " for the dubious " Worst Person in the World " award are declared " worse ", " worser ", and " worst ", which Olbermann refers to as bronze, silver, and gold levels, respectively.

While loosely acceptable for describing any second-place finisher in a sporting event, the " runner-up " label is more properly appended to one that finishes in that position as the result of having lost in the final round of an elimination tournament ; specifically, its most frequent use is encountered in tennis, and refers to the player ( or doubles team ) that loses the final match ; in most tennis tournaments, a testimonial award, often in the form of a plate, is given to the runner ( s )- up following the final match, with the winner ( s ) receiving a trophy instead.

Its name refers to one of the two levels of award the Scottish Certificate of Education was made at, the Higher Grade being the other.

The Champion of the Colony award refers to a list that was most likely compiled in the late 1940s by Australian football historian C. C.

The term ' young adult ' refers to readers from ages 12 through 18 for purposes of this award.

This refers to his award in 1999 for best song, " You'll Be In My Heart " ( referred to in the episode as " You'll Be In Me ") from Disney's Tarzan, which won against a song from South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut called " Blame Canada ".

Ragman Rolls refers to the collection of instruments by which the nobility and gentry of Scotland subscribed allegiance to King Edward I of England, during the time between the Conference of Norham in May 1291 and the final award in favour of Balliol in November 1292 ; and again in 1296.

The name of the award also refers to an incident in the Hebrew Bible where a golden statue of a bull ( intended to represent God ) was made by Aaron, which was later destroyed by Moses because the Torah prohibits making any physical representations of the god of Israel.

The award was somewhat ironic in that his name at the time was on the infamous " Nixon's enemies list ", which was compiled by Charles Colson and Nixon.

The most infamous of these is All My Children star Susan Lucci, whose name became synonymous with being nominated for an award and never winning, after having been nominated 18 times without receiving an award before finally winning a Daytime Emmy for Best Actress in 1999.

In 1982, Mr. Summers received the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Robert C. Heeney award, the highest award available to a criminal defense lawyer for his work in defending the inmates prosecuted with regard to the riot.

The " Lawrence Summers Memorial Award " is an award given each issue in satirical honor of Lawrence Summers, the Secretary of the Treasury under Bill Clinton and later President of Harvard University, given to companies that " take extraordinary leaps to justify unethical practices.

Shortly after starting as editor he sent a memo to Mary Holland, the Observer's Northern Ireland correspondent, whose coverage had won her the Journalist of the Year award:

In connection with any claim decided by the Commission pursuant to this Title in which an award is made, the Commission may, upon the written request of the claimant or any attorney heretofore or hereafter employed by such claimant, determine and apportion the just and reasonable attorney's fees for services rendered with respect to such claim, but the total amount of the fees so determined in any case shall not exceed 10 per centum of the total amount paid pursuant to the award.

Sheldon influenced this award through her use of a masculine pseudonym, James Tiptree, Jr., demonstrating that there is no distinction in works of science fiction when written by either gender.

His most important work in potential theory is summarised in his 1911 book Researches in Potential Theory ( Potentialtheoretische Untersuchungen ), which received the Jablonowski Society award in Leipzig ( 1500 marks ), and the Richard Lieben award from the University of Vienna ( 2000 crowns ) for the most outstanding work in the field of pure and applied mathematics written by any kind of ' Austrian ' mathematician in the previous three years.

However, songs written for Andy Williams and Roberta Flack have received this award twice.

Burton appeared on Broadway, receiving a Tony Award nomination for Time Remembered ( 1958 ) and winning the award for playing King Arthur in the musical Camelot ( 1960 ), directed by Moss Hart and written by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe.

* Words and Music: Only four musicals have won the Tony Award for Best Musical when a person had ( co -) written the Book ( non-sung dialogue and storyline ) and the Score ( music and lyrics ): 1958 winner The Music Man ( Meredith Willson – award for Book and Score did not exist that year ), 1986 winner The Mystery of Edwin Drood ( Rupert Holmes – who also won for Book and Score ), 1996 winner Rent ( Jonathan Larson – who also won for Book and Score ), and 2011 winner The Book of Mormon ( Trey Parker, Robert Lopez, and Matt Stone also won for Book and Score ).

The score by Daniele Amfitheatrof, Paul J. Smith, and Charles Wolcott was nominated in the " Scoring of a Musical Picture " category, and " Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah ", written by Allie Wrubel and Ray Gilbert won the award for Best Song at the 20th Academy Awards on March 20, 1948.

This song was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song in 2000, and McLachlan performed it at the awards ceremony, but the award went to " You'll Be in My Heart " from Tarzan, written and recorded by Phil Collins.

The Ambassador of Conscience Award, Amnesty International's most prestigious human rights award, takes its inspiration from a poem written by Irish Nobel prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney called " The Republic of Conscience.

* The Australian / Vogel Literary Award: Inaugural award to Archie Weller, The Day Of The Dog, after the award was initially given to Paul Radley, who was disqualified after admitting his manuscript was actually written by his uncle.

The award statement, written by Jonas Mekas, a critic who would later become an influential experimental filmmaker in his own right, cited Brakhage for bringing to cinema " an intelligence and subtlety that is usually the province of the older arts.

* Moot court membership or award ( based on oral and written argument ).

The physical symbol of the award was a blue-enameled Maltese Cross with golden eagles, based on the symbol of the Johanniter Order, between the arms and the Prussian royal cypher and the words Pour le Mérite (" For Merit " in the French language ) written in gold letters on the body of the cross.

" Fame ", written by Michael Gore and Dean Pitchford, won the award that year.

In 1976, the Turing Award was awarded jointly to Rabin and Dana Scott for a paper written in 1959, the citation for which states that the award was granted:

In 1933, a new law enabled the Naval, Military, and Coast Guard Academies to award Bachelor of Science degrees, and the class of 1933 was the first to receive this degree and have it written in the diploma.

The final advert summarised the whole campaign, asked some questions back to the people that had written to them, and explained that the winner of the K Foundation award would be announced in a TV advert during the live Turner Prize coverage on Channel 4 television.

Due to verbal abuse, written racist epithets, death threats, and a commanding officer expressing interest in a relationship with her, she quit, and filed a sexual harassment suit against the Detroit Police Department, which she won, receiving an award somewhere between $ 800, 000 and $ 1. 2 million.

In 1989, Codrescu's coverage of the Romanian Revolution of 1989 for National Public Radio and ABC News ’ Nightline, was critically acclaimed, and his renewed interest in Romanian language and literature led to new work written in Romanian, including “ Miracle and Catastrophe ”, a book-length interview conducted by the theologian Robert Lazu, and “ The Forgiven Submarine ”, an epic poem written in collaboration with poet Ruxandra Cesereanu, which won the 2008 Romania Radio Cultural award.

Stardust Memories was nominated for a Writers Guild of America award for Best Comedy written directly for screen.

Schuller has been the recipient of many awards, including the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for his composition written for the Louisville Orchestra Of Reminiscences and Reflections, the MacArthur Foundation " genius " award ( 1991 ), the William Schuman Award ( 1988 ), given by Columbia University for " lifetime achievement in American music composition ", and ten honorary degrees.

By now he had become Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge and had been honored by the award of the Order of Merit.

Any fee so determined shall be entered as a part of such award, and payment thereof shall be made by the Secretary of the Treasury by deducting the amount thereof from the total amount paid pursuant to the award.

Any and all payments required to be made by the Secretary of the Treasury under this title pursuant to any award made by the Commission to the Government of the United States shall be covered into the Treasury to the credit of miscellaneous receipts.

Subject to the limitations hereinafter provided, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, as prescribed by Section 8 of this Title, an amount not exceeding the principal of each award, plus accrued interests on such awards as bear interest, certified pursuant to Section 5 of this Title, in accordance with the award.

if such person is deceased or is under a legal disability, payment shall be made to his legal representative: Provided, That if the total award is not over $500 and there is no qualified executor or administrator, payment may be made to the person or persons found by the Comptroller General of the United States to be entitled thereto, without the necessity of compliance with the requirements of law with respect to the administration of estates ; ;

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 a receiver or trustee for any such partnership or corporation, duly appointed by a court of competent jurisdiction in the United States, makes an assignment of the claim, or any part thereof, with respect to which an award is made, or makes an assignment of such award, or any part thereof, payment shall be made to the assignee, as his interest may appear ; ;

The award was made by Judge Fred B. Perkins who heard their petition without a jury by agreement of the parties.

The award, without interest, compared with a valuation of $57,500 placed on the property by the property owners' real estate expert, and a valuation of $52,500 placed on it by the state's expert.

In the lists below, the winner of the award for each year is shown first, followed by the other nominees.

An Academy Award is an award bestowed by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ) to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors and writers.

The Oscar itself was later initiated by the Academy as an award " of merit for distinctive achievement " in the industry.

In 1928, MGM's art director Cedric Gibbons, one of the original Academy members, supervised the design of the award trophy by printing the design on a scroll.