Sentence examples for awarded significant from inspiring English sources

The European Union has awarded significant developmental aid to parts of western and southern Wales in order to improve conditions there.

Only when he sued the offending newspapers for libel – he won his case in July, and was awarded significant damages – did he finally "come into contact with this extraordinarily alien person they had created".

The National Endowment for the Arts made sweeping cuts in its support of established PBS shows on Wednesday, and for the first time awarded significant grants to an array of gaming, mobile and Web-based projects.

Both Bessemer Close and Murray House were awarded significant funding – £240,000 and £256,500, respectively – in July 2013 by the Department of Health from its £101m care and support specialised housing fund (Cassh) which has been allocated to specialised housing projects in England for groups such as older people and people with mental health conditions.

In 'Nepotism and sexism in peer-review', Christine Wennerås and Agnes Wold from Göteborg University in Sweden set out to investigate why women were being awarded significant percentages of PhDs but a smaller chunk of postdocoral research posts and a much smaller still proportion of senior posts.

Page B14 Arts ARTS ENDOWMENT TRIMS GRANTS FOR PBS SHOWS The National Endowment for the Arts made sweeping cuts in its support of established PBS shows, and for the first time awarded significant grants to an array of gaming, mobile and Web-based projects.

Society stimulates people of great athletic promise to learn golf (rather than polo or cricket) by awarding significant prizes (= prices) to tournament winners.

Last year, ArtPrize began awarding significant juried prizes too, with a grand prize winner receiving $100,000 and five other entries receiving $20,000 each.

Amec's current order book stands at £3.3bn, which is up on the same time last year (£3.1bn) and it has recently been awarded several significant new contracts.

Tzahi Hanegbi, head of the foreign affairs committee of the Israeli parliament, said Mr Abbas had "awarded a significant victory to Hamas".

When those vouchers are distributed, though, they are certain to come under rare scrutiny, as new details emerge on who received the most vouchers two years ago, when they were last awarded in significant numbers.