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Of course, if you want to throw all caution to the winds and rent an Imperial or Cadillac limousine just for you and your bride, you'll have a memorable tour, but it won't be cheap, and it is not recommended unless you own a producing oil well or you've had a winner in the Irish Sweepstakes.
As a Neiman-Marcus award winner the titian-haired Miss Garson is a personification of the individual look so important to fashion this season.
it must play a game in which there never is a winner.
In the lists below, the winner of the award for each year is shown first, followed by the other nominees.
The final tallies show how many voters support each candidate, and the winner is the candidate whom the most voters support.
She expressed reservations over the eventual winner David Cameron, feeling that he did not, like the other candidates, have a proven track record, and she was later a leading figure in parliamentary opposition to his A-List policy, which she has said is " an insult to women ".
File: JohnMcFall-Manchester-20070513. jpg | John McFall, who has an above-knee leg amputation, and uses a prosthetic leg, is a sprinter and winner of a gold medal at the 2007 Paralympic World Cup
Sam Jethroe is the oldest player to have won the award, at age 32, 33 days older than 2000 winner Kazuhiro Sasaki ( also 32 ).
In Major League Baseball, the National League Championship Series ( NLCS ) is a round in the postseason that determines who wins the National League pennant and advances to Major League Baseball's championship, the World Series, facing the winner of the American League Championship Series.
The Warren C. Giles Trophy, named for the president of the NL from 1951 to 1969, is awarded to the NLCS winner.
In Major League Baseball, the American League Championship Series ( ALCS ), played in October, is a round in the postseason that determines the winner of the American League pennant.
The result is decided when an opponent is deemed incapable to continue by a referee, is disqualified for breaking a rule, resigns by throwing in a towel, or is pronounced the winner or loser based on the judges ' scorecards at the end of the contest.
The fighter with the higher score at the end of the fight is ruled the winner.
Should the referee count to ten, then the knocked-down boxer is ruled " knocked out " ( whether unconscious or not ) and the other boxer is ruled the winner by knockout ( KO ).
the winner in a singles game is the first player to score 21 shots.
In all other disciplines ( pairs, triples, fours ) the winner is the team who has scored the most shots after 21 / 25 ends of play.
If each player wins a set, or both sets end tied, there is a 3-end tiebreaker to determine a winner.
The winner of the game is the player with the most points.
The winner is the player who pockets the most coins.
At the end of the game, the last remaining housemate is declared the winner of that particular series and receives prizes, often including a large amount of money, a car, a vacation and ( in some editions ) a house.

winner and candidate
* 1824 – United States presidential election, 1824: Since no candidate received a majority of the total electoral college votes in the election, the United States House of Representatives is given the task of deciding the winner in accordance with the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
In single winner plurality voting, each voter is allowed to vote for only one candidate, and the winner of the election is whichever candidate represents a plurality of voters, that is, whoever received the largest number of votes.
The presidential elections were the most competitive in the history of the country in which the difference in the ballot count between the winner and the first runner up was less than one percent point, and in which neither candidate got absolute majority in a system in which a second round of voting has not been instituted.
Such speculation increased after Labour lost the 1983 Bermondsey by-election, in which Peter Tatchell was its candidate, standing against a Tory, a Liberal ( eventual winner Simon Hughes ) and the right wing John O ' Grady, who had declared himself the " real " Labour candidate and fought an openly homophobic campaign against Tatchell.
The scores for each candidate are summed, and the candidate with the highest sum is the winner.
The two-round system ( also known as the second ballot, runoff voting or ballotage ) is a voting system used to elect a single winner where the voter casts a single vote for their chosen candidate.
However, as noted above in cases where there are 3 or more strong candidates, runoff voting will sometimes produce an absolute majority for a different winner than the candidate elected by the other two.
Advocates of Condorcet methods argue that a candidate can claim to have majority support only if they are the " Condorcet winner " – that is, the candidate who would beat every other candidate in a series of one-on-one elections.
The winner – takes – all principle applies in presidential elections, since if a presidential candidate gets the most votes in any particular state, all of the electoral votes from that state are awarded.
To counter this presumed difficulty, the delegates gave each presidential elector two votes, required at least one of those votes be for a candidate from outside the elector's state, and mandated that the winner of the election obtain an absolute majority with respect to the total number of electors.
If the winner of the seat is determined purely by the candidate with the most votes, as occurs in the plurality vote and the alternative vote, the plurality system has several characteristics that can serve to discourage the development of third parties and reward the two major parties.
After northern candidate Alassane Ouattara was declared the victor of the 2010 Ivorian presidential election by the country's Independent Electoral Commission ( CEI ), the President of the Constitutional Council – an ally of Gbagbo – declared the results to be invalid and that Gbagbo was the winner.
Estonian Reform Party, Union of Pro Patria and Res Publica, Social Democratic Party and an independent candidate Indrek Tarand ( who gathered the support of 102, 460 voters, only 1, 046 votes less than the winner of the election ) all won one seat each.
A candidate with that property is called a Condorcet winner ( named for the 18th-century French mathematician and philosopher Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, the Marquis de Condorcet, who championed such outcomes ).
A Condorcet winner doesn't always exist because majority preferences can be like rock / paper / scissors: for each candidate, there can be another that is preferred by some majority ( this is known as Condorcet paradox ).

winner and receiving
For each puzzler, one correct answer is chosen at random, with the winner receiving a $ 26 gift certificate to the Car Talk store, referred to as the " Shameless Commerce Division ".
After receiving the cards, the bid winner examines what will create the strongest hand and then discards an equal number of cards back to their partner.
The Rugby World Cup, first held in 1987, takes place every four years, with the winner of the tournament receiving the Webb Ellis Cup.
Service alternates between opponents every two points ( regardless of winner of the rally ) until the end of the game, unless both players score 10 points or the expedite system is operated, when the sequences of serving and receiving stay the same but each player serves for only 1 point in turn.
The series was made on a small budget, using a point-based system with the day's winner receiving £ 200.
The league later decided to award a Brownlow Medal to any player who was eligible to win who tied on the same number of votes as a winner who won on count-back – with Verdun Howell receiving a Brownlow retrospectively.
* November 19 – Guy Sebastian becomes the winner on Australian Idol, receiving a contract with BMG Australia.
The GT-R's success in motor racing was formidable, particularly in the annual 1, 000 km race at the Mount Panorama circuit in Bathurst, Australia, where the winner in 1991 and 1992 was a GT-R ( despite receiving additional in weight penalties and a turbo pressure relief valve in 1992, and crashing ), and in the Japanese GT series where it has remained dominant for many years.
Kelly was subsequently a two-time winner of the Sarah Siddons Award for her work in Chicago theatre as well as a Tony Award winner for her performance in The Bad Seed, which she followed up by starring in the film version in 1956 and receiving a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Upon receiving the Pritzker Prize in 1988, for which he nominated himself, he gave the shortest speech of any winner in the award's history, stating:
He also was elected to the 2006 NL All-Star Team as the National League All-Star Final Vote winner, receiving around six million votes.
The Program ends when only one student remains, with that student being declared the winner and receiving a government funded pension.
The top seven teams advanced to the playoff tournament, with the Commissioner ’ s Cup winner ( regular season champion ) receiving a bye into the semi-finals.
Lewis Carroll mocked the futility of the UK's caucuses in " A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale ", Chapter 3 of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: when the " Caucus-race " of running in a circle stops, everyone is declared a winner by the Dodo and Alice is told to hand out prize s to all others, receiving her own thimble as her prize.
There was also a dedicated area celebrating the most recent winner, and the opportunity for visitors to cast their vote for next winner ( with the top vote-winner receiving 1 official vote on his behalf ).
Known as the Bedlam Series, it encompasses all the athletic contests between the two universities with the winner receiving the Bedlam Bell.
The name was decided via a Disney Adventures contest, with the winner receiving a drawing of himself with Doug and his friends.
She lost the general election, receiving 23 % of the vote and placing third behind Democrat Joseph E. Brennan and the winner, Independent candidate Angus King.
A week later, Rupert was announced as the winner of the " America's Tribal Council " contest, receiving 85 % of the 38 million votes cast, winning a million dollars himself.
In March 1991, in his fourth top division tournament, Takahanada was runner-up with twelve wins, and became the youngest ever sanshō or special prize winner, receiving awards for Fighting Spirit and Technique.
No Doubt is the biggest winner of this category, having won the award thrice ; while U2 is the biggest nominee, with seven of its videos receiving nominations in six different years from 1985 to 2005.
Currently, each Pro Tour carries a total purse of $ 240, 245, with the winner receiving $ 40, 000 ( the exact payout varies by player's final standing ).

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