Her award is among the 424 stimulus-funded research grants and supplements totaling more than $200 million that Johns Hopkins has garnered since Congress passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, bestowing the NIH and the National Science Foundation with $12.4 billion in extra money to underwrite research grants by September 2010.
He concluded that, among the Yanomami, the act of killing bestowed status.
In establishing this permanent memorial and in awarding the Collier Medal, we honor and celebrate Officer Collier's life, celebrate the many acts of kindness bestowed upon and across our community, and strengthen the culture of caring that is the heart of MIT.
According to the new law, creators no longer had to register or renew copyright; the simple act of creating something bestowed it with instant and automatic rights.
Section 5 of the Customs Recognition Act of the Constitution bestows ownership rights over water, and to reefs, seabed and species of fish to traditional owners.
The LAPD has long recognized officers for heroic acts, bestowing the department's highest honor — the Medal of Valor — upon those who have pulled people from fiery car crashes or shielded fellow officers during shootouts.
Evolutionary-minded scientists have developed robust theories to explain why prosociality evolved between close genetic relatives and social exchange partners, but humans also develop strong bonds with unrelated individuals whose interactions do not seem to be regulated by a close act-by-act reckoning of benefits bestowed and received (i.e., direct reciprocity).
Fluctuating in a blink between adjective and verb, it either describes someone who is already the owner of the "gift" in question, or the act of someone who has bestowed this very same "gift", thereby endowing the recipient with a special something.
When they venture out of the shelter, an act of kindness is usually bestowed upon them.
Lindo said he hoped the government would now act to bestow official honours on the robin.
