Sentence examples for first laureate from inspiring English sources

Professor Ostrom was not the first laureate to hail from outside the field.

He is South America's first laureate since Colombia's Gabriel García Márquez won in 1982.

He was the first laureate to serve a fixed, 10-year term; previous laureates had received a lifetime appointment.

The borough's first laureate, Stephen Stepanchev, a well-regarded poet, obviously finds Queens a powerful, if unassuming, place.

Turkish writers reacted ambivalently to the prize which made Pamuk the first laureate from a Muslim country since 1988.

Until 1999 the position was a lifetime appointment; Andrew Motion was the first laureate to serve a fixed 10-year term.

The first laureates for the Economics Prize were Jan Tinbergen and Ragnar Frisch "for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes".

Should an appropriate poet come forth, he or she would be California's sixth laureate.

"Do you know, I'm only the third laureate to have had the sherry in recent times?

Author and illustrator PJ Lynch has been announced the fourth Laureate na nÓg, Ireland's laureate for children's literature.

Donaldson becomes the seventh laureate, and was described as "a wonderful choice" by one of her predecessors, the poet Michael Rosen.