Yet tickets to the biggest of them all, the Ivor Novello awards or Ivors, are highly sought after among all people working in the music industry, and artists who win often say it's the one that means the most.
But he turned sharply to the right after, among other things, finding that his welfare clients were often living better than he, and that despite a Ph.D. he couldn't get a college teaching job after five years of trying.
Most sought after among Czech artists of the modern period are those affiliated with the Surrealist movement founded by the French writer, poet and theorist André Breton, who was also a collector of Czech art.
Regina Ip, a lawmaker and the chairwoman of the New People's Party, which has stayed neutral in the race so far, said that invitations to the Shenzhen meetings had become sought after among pro-Beijing lawmakers.
The insurer had written insurance on mortgage securities— a derivative known as a credit default swap — and almost collapsed after, among other things, onerous collateral calls from its trading partners drained its cash.
In 1990, Samuel K. Doe, a semiliterate soldier turned president, bled to death after, among other things, having his ears chopped off by followers of Prince Y. Johnson, the leader of a rebel faction called the Independent National Patriotic Front of Liberia.
One question Mueller is no doubt exploring is whether Trump's own efforts to help Flynn including asking James Comey, then the F.B.I. director, to give Flynn a pass, and then firing Comey after, among other things, it became clear that that wasn't happening were motivated by loyalty or by apprehension about what that investigation might reveal.
Asian works were highly sought after among collectors, and China's booming art market overtook the auction and gallery sales of the U.K. to command second place behind that of the U.S. Portraits of the stars of Hollywood's Golden Age and the heretofore lost works of Chicago-based nanny Vivian Maier were among the year's photo exhibits.
It is the most I have been paid for a piece of work that has been bought [rather than commissioned]." The Irish photographer's trademark portraits on a black background have been highly sought after among the rich and famous - last week he was invited to the World Economic Forum in Davos.
The "African solutions for African problems" slogan may have lost much of its power after, among other things, the recent Western military intervention in Mali, but it retains some meaning through the projects Africans themselves are organising to effect social change in their communities.
Bridgeport's former mayor just got out of jail after, among other things, accepting free gifts from city contractors; Hartford's mayor is headed in for doing the same thing; and Waterbury's onetime mayor (a convicted sex offender) isn't getting out anytime soon.
