The project was selected by Big Lottery Fund assessors as one of four finalists.

On October 2, 2009, in a stunning and embarrassing setback for the mayor, Chicago was the first of four finalists to be eliminated during selection ceremonies in Copenhagen.

An aircraft concept, ARES was selected for a detailed design study as one of the four finalists for the 2007 Mars Scout Program opportunity, but was eventually not selected in favor of the Phoenix mission.

So strong was her box office appeal by 1939 that she was one of four finalists that year for the role of Scarlett O ' Hara in Gone with the Wind ; the film's producer, David O. Selznick, had briefly romanced Arthur in the late 1920s when they both were with Paramount Pictures.

Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (; born 6 March 1937 ) is a retired Soviet cosmonaut and the first woman to have flown in space, having been selected from more than four hundred applicants and five finalists to pilot Vostok 6 on 16 June 1963.

On August 30, the four finalists were announced:

The four finalists and their chatterbots were Bruce Wilcox ( Rosette ), Adeena Mignogna ( Zoe ), Mohan Embar ( Chip Vivant ) and Ron Lee ( Tutor ), who finished in that order.

The host country was selected from the four finalists after they were determined through qualifying.

Bowling Green offered four possible sites and became one of four finalists including Fremont, Napoleon, and Van Wert.

It was the strongest national chess championship ever held, with eight world chess champions and four world championship finalists among its winners.

More than 48 percent of voters in a contest sponsored by the franchise's new owners preferred the River Bandits name over the Swing and four other finalists: the Channel Cats, the Current, the River Eagles, and the Talons.

The remaining four finalists paired off and fought head-to head in ' The Arena ' with the two victorious robots moving on to a final arena battle to determine the champion and the two defeated robots fighting a separate arena battle for 3rd and 4th place.

The duPont Jury also announced four finalists for their exemplary broadcast journalism:

In the final interview, all four finalists will answer one environmental question, the candidates will be assessed based on the judges over-all impression on the candidate to determine the final ranking.

Semi-finalists are cut to eight ( 8 ) finalists, then to the final four ( 4 ) from which the runners-up and winner are announced.

Over 30, 000 votes were cast during the show to find the four finalists for A Song For Europe.

According to Marshall's 1942 autobiography, which was reportedly ghostwritten by Fred Reinfeld, Tsar Nicholas II conferred the title of " Grandmaster " on Marshall and the other four finalists.

During the summer of 2005, Visnjic was one of four finalists for the role of James Bond, eventually losing out to British actor Daniel Craig.

Eight teams began the playoffs with the four finalists decided by a best-of-three district format.

The Men's program has produced twenty-eight All-American players, seven ECAC tournament MVPs, six ECAC players of the year, four ECAC rookies of the year, and seven Hobey Baker Memorial Award finalists.

Under Crozier the Amerks won the Calder Cup in 1965, 1966 and 1968 and were finalists in 1967 ; they are the only team in AHL history to appear in the Calder Cup finals in four consecutive seasons.

The Junior side have been Connacht Champions on four occasions ( 1918, 1978, 1981 and 1987 ) and have been finalists on many further occasions most recently in 1999 and 1989 ( records are incomplete ).

In March, four out of the 30 players are selected as finalists and are placed in the final ballot.

It is of the utmost importance to the people of America and of the world how their governing President `` ends up '' during the four years of his term.

They kicked their horses through the deep water with their bare heels, drove the Rebels out of their rifle pits and captured four men.

These chatty merchants made amusing and instructive traveling companions, for their business took them to all four corners of the globe, and Florentine gossip had already reached a high stage of development as even a cursory glance at the Inferno will prove.

Although the United States and the U.S.S.R. have been arguing whether there shall be four, five or six top assistants, the most important element in the situation is not the number of deputies but the manner in which these deputies are to do their work.

Long-lived carbon-14 from the fusion process would cause four million embryonic, neonatal or childhood deaths and stillbirths over the next 20 generations, and between 200,000 and one million human beings now living would have their lives cut short by radiation-produced diseases such as leukemia.

The real question that follows is -- how are those four years used and what is their value as training??

It was nevertheless almost incredible that four years after Yalta there should be a complete split over Germany, with hot heads on both sides planning to use the Germans against their former allies, and with Nazi-minded Germans expecting to recover their power by fighting on one side or the other.

In other words, like automation machines designed to work in tandem, they shared the same programming, a mutual understanding not only of English words, but of the four stresses, pitches, and junctures that can change their meaning from black to white.

With over four million American men away at war, Protestants forced their distinctive theological belief upon the general public.

Anthropologists, housewives, historians and such by profession, they approach their discipline as amateurs, collectors, commercial propagandists, analysts or some combination of the four.

He sucked in his breath and kept quiet while Killpath laid down the sheet again, wound the gold-wire stems of his glasses around his ears and then, eying the report as it lay before him on the desk, intoned, `` Acting Lieutenant Gunnar Matson one failed to see that the station keeper was properly relieved two absented himself throughout the entire watch without checking on the station's activities or the whereabouts of his section sergeants three permitted members of the Homicide Detail of the Inspector's Bureau to arrogate for their own convenience a patrolman who was thereby prevented from carrying on his proper assignment four failed to notify the station commander Acting Captain O. T. Killpath of a homicide occurring in the district five frequented extralegal establishments known as after-hours spots for purposes of an unofficial and purportedly social nature and six '' -- he leaned back and peeled off his glasses `` -- failed to co-operate with the Acting Captain by returning promptly when so ordered.

The Dallas Texans were back home Monday with their third victory in four American Football League starts -- a 19-12 triumph over the Denver Broncos -- but their visit will be a short one.

The British defending lawyers, who today increased from three to four, demanded to know if they could make the information involved seem of little value to a jury, the chances of their clients would improve.

Huff lives with his wife, Sue, and their four children, 6 to 10 years old, in a $25,000 home with a $17,000 mortgage.

That 60-day period is over and letters are still coming in from shareholders of these four funds, complaining about mistakes in their accounts.

Once four Tibetan monks, in their saffron robes, filed through the cafeteria line.

No action of his could be interpreted in his favor and four midshipmen, prior to their knowing the significance of the Greek paper, had seen it in Cromwell's hands while Spencer whispered explanations.

The Book of Enoch describes Sheol as divided into four compartments for four types of the dead: the faithful saints who await resurrection in Paradise, the merely virtuous who await their reward, the wicked who await punishment, and the wicked who have already been punished and will not be resurrected on Judgment Day.

Amino acids are usually classified by the properties of their side-chain into four groups.

Abu Bakr felt compassion for slaves, so he purchased eight slaves ( four men and four women ) and then freed them, paying 40, 000 dinar for their freedom.