Winning the prize would become an obsession until he finally won it in 1830, with his new cantata every year until he succeeded at his fourth attempt.

Shortly later, he finally won the prize with the cantata Sardanapale.

Icahn also attempted the grand prize of U. S. Steel, launching a hostile takeover for 89 % of the industrial giant for $ 7 billion ($ billion today ) in late 1986 and only being rebuffed finally by CEO David Roderick on January 8, 1987.

In this knock-out format tournament he defeated Gata Kamsky 1½ – ½, Karpov 2 – 0, Viswanathan Anand 1½ – ½, and finally the World Champion Garry Kasparov 1½ – ½ to win the first prize of approximately 75, 000 USD.

Couture finally did win the prize in 1837.

Organizers were finally able to secure funding for circuit improvements in late August, but still needed a $ 750, 000 loan from FOCA to pay prize money and other expenses.

During this raiding mission, which lasted from 6 June 1863 to 27 June 1863, Read transferred his command to prize vessels twice more, once to the and finally to the.

The phrases, and the references to a special prize, are finally dropped entirely in the last two episodes.

After the war, in 1947, Domagk was finally able to receive his Nobel Prize, but not the monetary portion of the prize due to the time that had elapsed.

Strange, because they are so frankly and hysterically insane — like all dreams: a God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones ; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one ; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short ; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it ; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body ; who mouths justice and invented hell — mouths mercy and invented hell — mouths Golden Rules, and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell ; who mouths morals to other people and has none himself ; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all ; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself ; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites a poor, abused slave to worship him!

He finally flew to Iceland and agreed to play after a two-day postponement of the match by FIDE President Max Euwe, a surprise doubling of the prize fund by British investment banker Jim Slater, and much persuasion, including a phone call by Henry Kissinger to Fischer.

By 1982, the race finally had sufficient prize money to attract world class athletes.

" " It suited Tikhonov by concentrating on character rather than histrionics and won him another state prize in the year that he finally joined the Communist Party.

They finally arrive in Reno, where it is revealed that Haley wants her share of the prize money to help her father buy a house.

* Ole went to the Sons of Norway Hall one night and finally won the door prize, which was a toilet brush.

Despite repeated attempts, he failed to win the prix de Rome, finally receiving only a second prize.

At a time when the idea of Lebanon finally taking up its right to enter the Eurovision Song Contest was being seriously floated, Aline left herself ideally placed to be one of the beneficiaries by winning the international prize at the Megahit festival in Turkey, in collaboration with prolific song-writer Jad Rahbani.

In 1969, when the Royal Court was finally able to perform Bond's work legally, it put on and toured the three plays in Europe, winning the Belgrade International Theatre Festival prize.

Nominations for the prize are invited from the public, although this was widely considered to have negligible effect — a suspicion confirmed in 2006 by Lynn Barber, one of the judges.

Amongst the fruits of his industry may be mentioned a laborious investigation of the disturbances of Jupiter by Saturn, the results of which were employed and confirmed by Euler in his prize essay of 1748 ; a series of lunar observations extending over fifty years ; some interesting researches in terrestrial magnetism and atmospheric electricity, in the latter of which he detected a regular diurnal period ; and the determination of the places of a great number of stars, including at least twelve separate observations of Uranus, between 1750 and its discovery as a planet.

All wins are checked for accuracy before the win is officially confirmed at which time the prize is secured and a new game is begun.

After having enjoyed sales of almost 30, 000 ( this number cannot be confirmed as there is no system in Croatia to measure exact album sales, most figures are provided by record companies, therefore, there cannot be considered to be accurate ) for three Teen albums and after receiving the 2002 Porin prize, Claudia broke away from the Teens.

This phenomenon was first seen with solar neutrinos in 1968 and was recently confirmed by several other experiments, but it is not recognized by a Nobel prize yet ( the prize awarded to Masatoshi Koshiba and Ray Davis in 2002 regards neutrino astronomy ).

It was short-lived, although it has been confirmed that it founded a small-bore rifle shooting challenge prize in the winter of 1896.

The Baltimore Saturday Visiter awarded Poe a prize in October 1833 for his short story " MS. Found in a Bottle ".

In October 1823, he entered the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, and despite some turmoil in the school at the beginning of the term ( when about a hundred students were expelled ), Galois managed to perform well for the first two years, obtaining the first prize in Latin.

The prize was announced on 22 October 1964 ; on 14 October, Sartre had written a letter to the Nobel Institute, asking to be removed from the list of nominees, and warning that he would not accept the prize if awarded, but the letter went unread ; on 23 October, Le Figaro published a statement by Sartre explaining his refusal.

* October 14 – Aung San Suu Kyi, a Burmese opposition politician, won the Nobel Peace prize.

The committee and institution serving as the selection board for the prize typically announce the names of the laureates in October.

The prize winners are announced in October every year.

In October 1911, she won second prize in the Croydon Art Society's poster competition, and shortly afterward was elected the youngest member of the Society.

The film was written and directed by the Canadian filmmaking team Astron-6, debuting October 21, 2011, at the Toronto After Dark Film Festival where it took home the top prize of BEST FILM, as well as five other awards.

Typically, there is a three-week period in May for public nominations to be received ; the short-list ( which since 1991 has been of four artists ) is announced in July ; a show of the nominees ' work opens at Tate Britain in late October ; and the prize itself is announced at the beginning of December.

This " conquest of the air ", in particular his winning the Deutsch de la Meurthe prize on October 19, 1901 on a flight that rounded the Eiffel Tower, made him one of the most famous people in the world during the early 20th century.

In October 2009, the odds returned to 24, 000 to 1 with the prize fund interest rate increase.

The Daily Mail prize was first announced in October 1908, with a prize of £ 500 being offered for a flight made before the end of the year.

On October 1, 2006, Netflix offered a $ 1, 000, 000 prize to the first developer of a video-recommendation algorithm that could beat its existing algorithm, Cinematch, at predicting customer ratings by more than 10 %.

The album also went on pre-sale at the official t. A. T. u. web shop on 18 October, with a small number of buyers receiving a limited-edition postcard set as a prize.

On October 19, 1901 he flew his airship " Number 6 " over Paris from the Parc de Saint Cloud around the Eiffel Tower and back in under 30 minutes to win the Deutsch de la Meurthe prize.

On 1 October 2010, in an open letter to the British government's Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt — co-signed by a further 27 previous Turner prize nominees, and 19 winners — the brothers opposed any future cuts in public funding for the arts.

In the second competition, held in October 2005, five different teams completed the course, and the Stanford University team won the $ 2 million prize.

Following the 2004 event, Dr. Tony Tether, the director of DARPA, announced that the prize money had been increased to $ 2 million for the next event, which was claimed on October 9, 2005.