Sentence examples for controversial prize from inspiring English sources

The director of Unesco called Friday for a West African dictator to withdraw the controversial prize he has endowed for the organization.

The intentionally controversial prize is open to artists under 50 who have presented an "outstanding exhibition" in the past 12 months.

Readers' hopes were dashed when the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the prestigious and often controversial prize to Malala and Satyarthi for "their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education".

The American ambassador to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Unesco, sent a letter on Monday urging the organization's director general to suspend plans to award a controversial prize endowed by and named for President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea.

While the decision disappointed some, particularly those trumpeting the charismatic claims of Yousafzai, the decision marks something of a return to the tradition of honouring work directly connected to disarmament, after the EU in 2012 and the even more controversial prize to Barack Obama in 2009.

PARIS Yesterday, UNESCO's executive board decided to suspend a controversial prize for the life sciences, funded by and named after President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea, a tiny, oil-rich dictatorship in Western Africa.

Women who have contributed to the design of the contemporary environment include Rebecca Binder, a recipient of several honor awards from the California Council of the American Institute of Architects, and Maya Lin, who as a 21-year-old Yale University architecture student, submitted the controversial prize-winning entry of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington.

In a big news week for bears, Mark Wallinger was handed the perennially controversial Turner prize at Tate Liverpool last night.

In recent years, East Germany's marginal status has inspired the country's best writing: Herta Müller's controversial Nobel prize is a tribute to an eastern bloc writer working in German.

With just days to go before the Executive Board of the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization UNESCOO) considers the fate of the controversial Obiang prize for life science research, an internal document has emerged that says that there are legal problems with implementing the honor in its current form.

The shortlist for the ever-controversial Booker Prize was announced this morning and is likely to create the usual speculation and debate.