In contrast, the Marines, the service branch who deal with ordinary military affairs, are trained to prize unquestioning loyalty and bravery as the highest ideals, and are deliberately recruited from the type of person who seeks glory and excitement.

Bilko ( Phil Silvers ), who seeks prize money by entering Honigan in an eating contest.

They fight the dracolich because it seeks revenge on Jarlaxle and Cadderly for ridding it of its sight and taking its prize ( see Sellswords series, Servant of the Shard ), and because they believe the dragon to be the source of Cattie-Brie's " trance " and seizures of memories occurring.

An Andrei Sakharov prize is also to be awarded by the American Physical Society every second year from 2006, " to recognize outstanding leadership and / or achievements of scientists in upholding human rights ".

The purpose of the prize is to recognize outstanding contributions to physics.

The Mathematical Association of America has also awarded him both the Lester R. Ford prize which was "... established in 1964 to recognize authors of articles of expository excellence published in The American Mathematical Monthly ...", and the Carl Allendoerfer prize which was established in 1976 for the same reasons, however for a different magazine, the Mathematics Magazine.

The prize was created in 1986 by Norman Borlaug, as a way to recognize personal accomplishments, and as a means of education by using the Prize to establish role models for others.

Maguire, who nominated Mayors for Peace and Nihon Hidankyo jointly for the prize, said she believes that " both organizations have fulfilled the wish of Alfred Nobel to work for peace and disarmament and awarding the prize jointly to them would recognize the great sacrifice of especially the hibakusha and give support and encouragement to all working on one of the greatest challenges to humanity – to rid the world of all nuclear weapons and build peace amongst the human family.

The purpose of the prize is to recognize outstanding Indian work ( according to the view of CSIR awarding committee ) in science and technology.

Afterwards, the fight promoter will only give them half the prize money because of " Maxo's " poor performance ; Kelly dares not protest, or the promoter will recognize him as " Maxo " and renege entirely.

Possibly, the Committee wanted to recognize Yoichiro Nambu, the other recipient of the 2008 prize, who was 87 at the time.

The Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics is an annual $ 10, 000 prize given to recognize and encourage outstanding achievements in experimental particle physics, and is open to scientists of any nation.

It became a bestseller in Britain and The Netherlands, and went on to be shortlisted for six further prizes, including the Dolman Best Travel Book Award, the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, and North America's Orion Book Award, a prize founded " to recognize books that deepen our connection to the natural world, present new ideas about our relationship with nature, and achieve excellence in writing.

As a matter of fact, we prize the diversity among our own people so much that we will not presume to speak for all other American artists.

This is the tale of one John Enright, an American who has accidentally killed a man in the prize ring and is now trying to forget about it in a quiet place where he may become a quiet man.

The annual $ 25, 000 prize is administered by the Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History and the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale.

The ministry also developed a new anthology of Ruben Dario, a Nicaraguan poet and writer, established a Ruben Dario prize for Latin American writers, the Leonel Rugama prize for young Nicaraguan writers, as well as public poetry readings and contests, cultural festivals and concerts.

In February 1860, he went to England for the New York Illustrated News to depict one of the major sporting events of the era, the prize fight between the American John C. Heenan and the English Thomas Sayers sponsored by George Wilkes, publisher of Wilkes ' Spirit of the Times.

The first edition of The Mismeasure of Man won the non-fiction award from the National Book Critics Circle ; the Outstanding Book Award for 1983 from the American Educational Research Association ; the Italian translation was awarded the Iglesias prize in 1991 ; and in 1998, the Modern Library ranked it as the 24th-best non-fiction book of all time.

The Political Economy section of the American Political Science Association awards an annual book prize in his name as well.

In the months before the British raid on New London and Groton, a New London privateer took Hannah in what is regarded as the largest prize taken by any American privateer during the war.

* Coit, Margaret, L John C. Calhoun: American Portrait 620pp ; prize winning popular history excerpt and text search

On the American series, the " prize " is either to play a game with the host, or to sit out while the other performers did.

After Ben Hogan won that championship in 1953, few American professionals had travelled to play in The Open, due to its travel requirements, relatively small prize purses, and the style of its links courses ( radically different from most American courses ).

This was eventually converted into a full-fledged prize: " For a distinguished musical composition of significant dimension by an American that has had its first performance in the United States during the year .” Because of the requirement that the composition had its world premiere during the year of its award, the winning work had rarely been recorded and sometimes had received only one performance.

In 1996, after years of internal debate, the Pulitzer Prize board announced a change in the criteria for the music prize " so as to attract the best of a wider range of American music.

Also in 1998, Song of the Coquí, his Hispanic family drama with humor and dance, won the Chicano / Latino Literary Award ( University of California, Irvine ) and an " American Dream " prize by Repertorio Español in New York City.

In 1979 Monsanto established the Edgar Monsanto Queeny safety award in honor of its former CEO ( 1928 &# 8209 ; 1960 ), an annual $ 2, 000 prize given to a member of the American Society of Safety Engineers to encourage accident prevention.

Kingston was drawn to writing at a young age and won a five-dollar prize from " Girl Scout Magazine " for an essay she wrote titled " I Am an American.

In 1958, Mark Tobey " became the first American painter since Whistler ( 1895 ) to win top prize at the Venice Biennale.

In September 1935, on the eve of Louis ' fight with the former title holder Max Baer, Washington Post sportswriter Shirley Povich expressed American hopes for the white contender ; " They say Baer will surpass himself in the knowledge that he is the lone white hope for the defense of Nordic superiority in the prize ring.

* Orwell Award, American prize for ' Honesty and Clarity in Public Language '

As the first U. S. woman to win the prize, Addams was applauded for her " expression of an essentially American democracy.

A medal valued at $ 100, the De Forest prize was, at the time, the largest prize of its kind at any educational institution American or otherwise.

The next year, she received the Hoover Medal, an engineering prize awarded jointly by five engineering societies, for her " contributions to motion study and to recognition of the principle that management engineering and human relations are intertwined .... Additionally, her unselfish application of energy and creative efforts in modifying industrial and home environments for the handicapped has resulted in full employment of their capabilities and elevation of their self-esteem ".

Besides the prize for the fastest boat, an environmental prize is awarded to the crew that collects the most rubbish along the way, an originality prize is given to the most creative crew, and a drunkenness prize to the most inebriated crew.

Guastavino received important awards and recognition, such as the Municipal Prize from the city of Buenos Aires for his chamber songs, a prize from the Justice Ministry of Argentina, Prize of the Cultural Commission of Santa Fe Province for his songs, “ Vosotras ” magazine Prize for his “ Canción de Navidad ”, and a Prize from the Organization of American States and the Inter-American Music Council as recognition of his outstanding creative activity.

He was then spurred to creative action by the announcement of a prize competition, sponsored by the Czech patriot Jan von Harrach, to provide suitable operas for the Provisional Theatre.

In 1984, he won the Harvard-Radcliffe Phi Beta Kappa prize for excellence in teaching, due in part to his creative use of medieval costumes, fire extinguishers, and at least one aircraft.

The declared purpose of the prize is to " perpetuate and honor the work of the eminent novelist and also to stimulate the creative activity of Spanish language writers ".

In turn, she has influenced Booker prize winners and other writers, such as Salman Rushdie and David Mitchell — and notable futurism and fantasy writers like Neil Gaiman and Iain Banks.

" The writers are compensated for publication rights, but are not considered winners and receive no prize money, but are eligible to re-enter the contest.

In 1999, Flora Brovina was recipient of the annual Tucholsky Award of the Swedish PEN Club, a prize which has been awarded to other writers of note such as Salman Rushdie, Adam Zagajevski, Nuruddin Farah, Taslima Nasrin, Shirali Nurmuadov and Vincent Magombe.

* Miguel de Cervantes Prize, a Spanish prize awarded to outstanding writers.

Entries came in from writers who were later to become well-known, including Harlan Ellison, Roger Zelazny, and Andrew J. Offutt, whose story " And Gone Tomorrow ", about a man unexpectedly sent a hundred years into the future, won first prize and appeared in the December 1954 issue of If.

The prize for poetry helped make the names of many illustrious writers.

That prize has served as a stepping-stone to film writing for other writers, but Kellerman deliberately avoided the world of screenwriting and enrolled in in a PhD program in clinical psychology at the University of Southern California.

The would-be bumpees included Joyce Brothers herself, who managed to outwit the question writers and Revlon long enough to win the maximum prize.

The Prix Femina is a French literary prize created in 1904 by 22 writers for the magazine La Vie heureuse ( today known as Femina ).

The Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal is a prize awarded by the American Library Association ( ALA ) to writers or illustrators of children's books published in the United States who have over a period of years made substantial and lasting contributions to children's literature.

Present-day writers Anne Donovan ( Orange prize winner ), Brian Conaghan, whose first novel The Boy Who Made it Rain was published in June 2011, and award-winning author Des Dillon are all from Coatbridge.

In keeping with the island's literary culture the prize alternates on a yearly basis between English-speaking and French-speaking writers.

The endowment created by Sophie Kerr, a writer who published 23 novels and dozens of short stories, has provided more than $ 1. 4 million in prize money to young writers.

The 10, 000-euro prize is awarded every two years to writers, translators, essayists, media representatives or scientists from the German district of Baden-Württemberg who write in Alemannic or are connected with Hebel.

Paul also describes the Christian life as that of an athlete, demanding practice and training for the sake of the prize ; later writers will see in this image a call to ascetical practices.

Several Brazilian writers were awarded with the highest prize of the Portuguese language.

According ArtistShare. com, ArtistShare artists consist of " some of today's most prestigious artists including Pulitzer prize and Oscar nominated writers, Guggenheim fellowship recipients and NEA Jazz Masters ".

The prize is funded by interest earned from the city ’ s publishing reserve, which was established in 1977 as a permanent legacy for writers and publishers.