This has the ring of truth to anyone who has ever been a part of any organization that confers awards.
Each year the department confers awards for both academic achievement and service to the department.
Although the awards are not the first to recognize achievements in opera — Opera News, a publication of the Metropolitan Opera Guild, confers awards to several individuals annually — they are the first to have such broad scope.
Since the Nobel Prize committee doesn't confer awards posthumously, it means that Franklin will never share in the scientific community's highest honor for her work.
President Mugabe conferred the awards on both red-robed women at the same graduation ceremony in September.
From today through Feb. 15, photographs of the winning works are on view in "ARTifacts: The Creative Spirit Survives," in the lobby of 557 Broadway, between Prince and Spring Streets in SoHo, the offices of Scholastic, which has conferred the awards since 1923 on students like Richard Avedon and Andy Warhol.
But lacking (by design) the blood-sport element of competition, it has had a hard time putting itself on the musical map, despite having conferred its awards on pianists of ever greater distinction (from David Owen Norris to Ralf Gothoni and Leif Ove Andsnes).
Though in recent years juries have sometimes conferred excessive awards, it is important to bear in mind that in any contest between personal injury lawyers and corporations, the corporate side holds what is by far the most important advantage, namely the funds with which to finance a stall defense.
Jurors gave it gold for "understated elegance". In all, the Great Falls, Va.-based Industrial Designers Society of America conferred 189 awards in categories as disparate as medical gear and toys.
He made two separate European tours in 1891 and 1893 with a personal physician by his side, during which he met Emperor Francis Joseph, King Umberto, Pope Leo XIII and Sultan Abdul Hamid II, and was conferred the awards of Commander of the Cross of Italy, Imperial Order of the Osmans (Turkey) and the Commander of the Cross of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
