Sentence examples for awards instead of from inspiring English sources

Some 24 publishers responded to the competition, Ms. Zimmer said, and First Book felt that the submissions were so good that it decided to give two awards, instead of one.

Imagine her Catwoman from the television series "Batman" growling "I Want to Be Evil," one of her signature songs from the early 1950s, at last Sunday's awards, instead of a glassy-eyed Britney Spears sloppily lip-synching her latest single, "Gimme More," while executing a few feeble bumps and grinds.

But concertgoers find it irresistibly exciting, and many wealthy patrons of the arts prefer to put up the cash for big-bang awards instead of backing the unglamorous career-development programs that, unlike competitions, really do make consistently crucial differences in the lives of aspiring artists.

The company has also referred to its payouts as retention awards instead of bonuses.

Thus, for the entire RPG pool, if blacks had the same award probabilities as whites (36.4% for RPGs and 29.3% for R01s) one would expect to see 1071 RPG awards instead of 585, and 337 R01 awards instead of 185 in our analysis sample.

And she's upset that Joan gets to go to the awards instead of her.

A "strange aspect" of the case, she said, was that "a single lump-sum award, instead of incremental awards" to publicly financed candidates would be constitutional.

If this country was grown-up enough to have a literary "Good Sex Award" instead of its sniggering opposite, this would be a strong contender.

He then made a terrible, or possibly terrific, gaffe, thanking Esquire magazine for the award, instead of GQ. "I will say, I have enjoyed the red wine immensely," he said, his face as red as cabernet.

Days after setting the pop world up in arms at the Grammy awards by protesting that Beyoncé should have won the best album award instead of Beck, the rapper made another attempt to realise his ambition of being taken seriously as a fashion designer as well as a musician.

Palmer and the Trojans will play Banks and the 11-1 Hawkeyes in the Orange Bowl on Jan .2. Palmer said that if any of the other candidates had the opportunity to play in the same circumstances, they might have won the award instead of him.