(President Bill Clinton's farewell peace terms, incidentally, also essentially awarded the Temple Mount to the Palestinians, leaving Israel with only theoretical sovereignty beneath the surface).
The lineup of the justices was the same as in the case that ended the recount in Florida after the 2000 election and essentially awarded the presidency to George W. Bush.
This situation is further worsened for women who find themselves in abusive relationships: by robbing women of access to financial independence and resources, the state essentially awards abusive men another means by which to trap their victims.
Justice Alito, joined by Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony M. Kennedy and Clarence Thomas, said that the trial judge's "essentially arbitrary" award in the Georgia case would have caused the lawyers there to "earn as much as the attorneys at some of the richest law firms in the country".
Other companies have tried helping their employees pay off their student loans, primarily through something called "repayment assistance" awards – essentially, stipends or extra bonuses that are awarded to employees with the condition that the payments be directed towards student loan repayment.
Doucet's most ardent followers are pushing him for the Ford C. Frick Award, essentially baseball broadcasting's hall of fame, but they have found that few fans in the United States have even heard of him, let alone understood his game calls.
Cannes, or at least the Cannes Lions, is essentially an advertising award show.
Even those who find the idea of literary awards essentially silly still often get caught up in the fractious debates around the shortlist and the choice of judges.
Airlines, desperately scrambling for every fraction of a percentage point of market share, are distributing mile awards essentially as a "loss leader," Mr. Corridore said.
