Sentence examples for nobel from inspiring English sources

Our thorough and comprehensive proposals have been developed by a Fiscal Commission, containing two nobel prize winners.

By giving the prize to the EU, the Nobel committee has undermined the excellent work of the other deserving winners of this prize.

Nobel, a wealthy Swedish industrialist who invented dynamite, provided few directions for how to select winners, except that the prize committees should reward those who "have conferred the greatest benefit to mankind".

Mr Mallon, 65, moved to quell speculation that he would be the natural successor to the Nobel prize-winning Mr Hume within 24 hours of the leader's resignation.

Worth 8m kronor each, the Nobel prizes are always handed out on 10 December, the anniversary of prize founder Alfred Nobel's death in 1896.

She won for what the Nobel committee called her "heroic struggle" for girls' right to an education.

The two were named winner of the £690,000 (8m kronor or $1.11m) prize by the chairman of the Nobel committee - Norway's former prime minister Thorbjoern Jagland - on Friday morning.

One day, though, I got to ask him the big question: "Tell me sir, why do you think they haven't given you the Nobel prize?" After a long pause and an amused smile, he replied, "Well, it is a European prize, and only once in a while, when they find you worthy, do they give it out to non-Europeans".

However, the Nobel committee's citation said the prize was a more general one, to mark "its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons" and nudge the few remaining nations that had not yet signed up to the organisation.

The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has become the surprise choice for this year's Nobel peace prize, a decision the Oslo committee said recognised both its current, hazardous mission to destroy Syria's chemical weapons stocks and 16 years of wider global efforts.

"If there is no union then why should the English pay, why would the English electorate agree to let Scots share their currency?" Trimble was awarded the Nobel peace prize, along with John Hume, for his role in bringing about the Good Friday Agreement in 1998.