While nominations for Best Director are made by members in the Academy's Directing branch, the award winners are selected by the Academy membership as a whole.

The winners were instead given a silver medal and an olive branch, while runners-up received a laurel branch and a copper or bronze medal.

His dam was the gray mare Spectacular by Promised Land, who, as a descendant of the broodmare Fly By Night, was a member of the same branch of Thoroughbred Family 2-d which also produced the Kentucky Derby winners Northern Dancer and Cannonade.

Computers are being used to keep branch inventories at more workable levels.

These stores are still there, but the volume of the `` downtown store '' has been on a relative decline, while in many cities the suburban `` branch '' sells more and more dry goods.

The fact seems to be that very many large branch stores are uneconomical, that the choice of location in the suburbs is as important as it was downtown, and that even highly suburbanized cities will support only so many big branches.

Little work has been done on the Munda languages, which are not well documented ; with their demotion from a primary branch, Proto-Mon – Khmer becomes synonymous with Proto-Austro-Asiatic.

* The Omotic language branch is the most controversial member of Afroasiatic, since the grammatical formatives which most linguists have given greatest weight in classifying languages in the family " are either absent or distinctly wobbly " ( Hayward 1995 ).

In the United States, many government agencies are organized under the executive branch of government, although a few are part of the judicial or legislative branches.

In the federal government, the executive branch, led by the president, controls the federal executive departments, which are led by secretaries who are members of the United States Cabinet.

The many important independent agencies of the United States government created by statutes enacted by Congress exist outside of the federal executive departments but are still part of the executive branch.

The Land Forces are the largest branch, with at least 18, 000 men serving there.

The Bundestag members are the only federal officials directly elected by the public ; the Bundestag in turn elects the Chancellor and, in addition, exercises oversight of the executive branch on issues of both substantive policy and routine administration.

The Baltic languages are a subbranch of the Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European language family.

There is a minority of scholars who argue that Baltic forms a separate branch of Indo-European, or that it is not a genetic node in either Indo-European family or Balto-Slavic, but that Eastern and Western Baltic are separate branches of Balto-Slavic.

The Balts or Baltic peoples are an Indo-European ethnic-linguistic group who speak the Baltic languages, a branch of the Indo-European language family, which was originally spoken by tribes living in area east of Jutland peninsula in the west and Moscow, Oka and Volga rivers basins in the east.

Pharmaceutical Engineering is sometimes regarded as a branch of biomedical engineering, and sometimes a branch of chemical engineering ; in practice, it is very much a hybrid sub-discipline ( as many BME fields are ).

Officers from the other federal uniformed services are also eligible to receive the decoration if they are militarized or detailed to serve with a service branch of the Armed Forces.

Cranial nerve number 5 ( CN V ), and its ophthalmic branch ( V < sub > 1 </ sub >) are responsible for the afferent arm of the reflex, and the cranial nerve number 7 ( CN VII ) also known a facial nerve, is responsible for the efferent arm, causing contraction of the muscle orbicularis oculi resulting in closing of the eyes.

The Celtic or Keltic languages ( usually pronounced but sometimes ) are descended from Proto-Celtic, or " Common Celtic "; a branch of the greater Indo-European language family.

In contemporary times, both King Juan Carlos of Spain and Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg are members of this family, both through the Bourbon branch of the dynasty.

Except for the House of Braganza ( founded by an illegitimate son of King John I of Portugal, who was himself illegitimate ), all current major Capetian branches are of the Bourbon cadet branch.

At the same time, the branch leading to the Merwede was dammed at Heusden, ( and has since been known as the Afgedamde Maas ) so that little water from the Meuse entered the old Maas courses, or the Rhine distributaries.

In October 1956, he entered test pilot school at Edwards Air Force Base, California and returned to Wright-Patterson in May 1957 as a test pilot assigned to the fighter branch.

A little farther east the Canopic branch of the Nile ( now dry ) entered the Mediterranean.

From Tipton a stage went to Fort Smith, Arkansas ( where another branch from Memphis also entered.

The Pennsylvania Railroad's Southwest branch from Greensburg entered Connellsville from Connellsville Township crossing Route 119 and across the North End crossing the Youghiogheny on a tressle in the middle of the town as this line terminated in Uniontown, PA.

The party then started on foot in search of a suitable place on which to locate, traveling westward over the eastern part of the state, and passing through the village of Fox Lake, where a branch land office was located … They entered into Columbia, then called Portage County, about four miles ( 6 km ) north of the present site of the village of Randolph, arriving foot-sore and weary on Saturday evening, September 27th .…

The House of Guise was founded as a cadet branch of the House of Lorraine by Claude of Lorraine, first Duke of Guise ( 1496 – 1550 ), who entered French service and was made a duke by King Francis I.

Indeed, the Lisbon treaty, which entered into force in December 2009, lays down that the outcome of elections to the European Parliament must be taken into account in selecting the President of the Commission ; the Commission is in some respects the executive branch of the EU and so its president can be regarded as the EU prime minister.

He agreed, and further joined forces with the branch of Lülin forces who had entered the proximity, and they began to capture territory instead of simply roving and raiding.

Giuliano entered the armed branch of the movement, EVIS ( Esercito Volontario per l ' Indipendenza della Sicilia, Volunteer Army for the Independence of Sicily ), as a colonel and was promised that in the event of a separatist victory, he would be pardoned for his crimes and appointed to some position in the newly independent state.

Following a period of musha shugyō, Toshiyoshi entered the service of a cadet branch of the Tokugawa clan that controlled the Owari province.

* For the Battle of Sekigahara, Fukushima Masanori entered Hiroshima Castle in 1600, and then Mihara Castle has been under controlled as the branch castle of Hiroshima castle.

Through these extensive political establishments, the Xianbei who entered into China were immersed among the Chinese and later classified into " Han ," whereas the " Monguor "/" Tu " represented a branch of the Xianbei who have preserved their distinctive identity, language, and culture until today.

He agreed, and further joined forces with the branch of Lülin forces who had entered the proximity, and they began to capture territory instead of simply roving and raiding.

Račan entered politics in the Socialist Republic of Croatia in 1972 as a member of the League of Communists of Croatia ( SKH ), the Croatian branch of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia ( SKJ ).

Fisher entered the service on June 6th, 1943 under the branch of Cannon Co. 417th Infantry, 76th Division.

This branch, which entered the old valley was also dammed in the Nunda area by moraines.

* Alpha Bank also has an extensive branch network in Bulgaria, the foundation of which it inherited from Ionian and Popular Bank, which entered in 1994 with a representative office in Sofia.

He later entered the judicial branch where he advanced all the way to Justice of the Supreme Court.

The Caledonian Railway entered Edinburgh on 15 February 1848 when the Edinburgh branch of the Caledonian Railway Main Line opened from Carstairs to a terminus at Lothian Road.

On 4 May 1883, an accident occurred when the branch service from Stranraer via the Dumfries, Lochmaben and Lockerbie Railway passed a signal and entered the station at 11. 25pm.

Durand was apprenticed to an engraver from 1812 to 1817 and later entered into a partnership with the owner of the firm, who asked him to run the firm's New York branch.

In 1917 as he was about to be transferred to a Russian branch, the U. S. entered the World War.

The Anglo-Egyptian Bank ( later Barclays ) opened a branch in 1888, and Credit Foncier ( later Crédit Agricole ) entered in 1920.