Sentence examples for medals for which from inspiring English sources
The medals for which are awarded, as part of tradition, just before the closing ceremony.Methodology: "Wins by events" allocates a tile for each event.
If the Americans exceed their stated goal of 20 medals, for which the American Olympic committee has spent $46 million over the last four years, it could put the United States in contention to top the medal table ahead of perennial powerhouses like Germany (which won 29 medals in 1998), Norway (25) and Russia (18).
Although Nash would claim that he was never prouder than when he was a soldier, always wore his Returned Services League RSLL) badge and eagerly attended reunions of the 2/2nd Pioneer Battalion, he never marched on Anzac Day or applied for the campaign medals for which he was eligible.
In her autobiography, "The Million Dollar Mermaid" (1999), Ms. Williams spoke of movie stardom as her "consolation prize," won instead of the Olympic gold medal for which she had yearned.
In November 1914 he won the Los Angeles-to-Phoenix Cactus Derby Race, the medal for which proclaimed its victor "Master Driver of the World," and on May 28 , 1916 he became the first person to lap the Indianapolis Speedway at a speed of more than 100 mph.
She was shortlisted for the Carnegie medal for Which Witch? the story of a wizard looking for a wife, while Dial-a-Ghost describes how Fulton Snodde-Brittle comes unstuck when he tries to hire some "frightful and dangerous ghosts" to scare his young nephew to death.
George Marshall decided that MacArthur would be awarded the Medal of Honor, a decoration for which he had twice previously been nominated, "to offset any propaganda by the enemy directed at his leaving his command".
A short film showing in the museum depicts him in 1971, vigorous and passionate at 94, speaking at the United Nations, which awarded him the Peace Medal and for which he composed a hymn.
The final race is the medal race, for which points are doubled.
They figured on 59 medals for Russia, which took home 88, and 49 medals for China, which won 59.
In Stockholm in 1912, Russia tried coercing a Finnish runner into declaring his three medals for Russia, which had taken over Finland in 1809.
