Sentence examples for off awards from inspiring English sources

The Emmy Awards, television's biggest night, are finally here, kicking off awards season and hereby marking months of great celebrity style to come.

Both Oyelowo and Pike are coming off awards season buzz for their films Selma and Gone Girl, respectively.

In the circumstances BHP's pay committee was right to slice 35% off awards to all executives; it would have been too embarrassing to pay out full jackpots.

After studios distribute the summer blockbusters, the Venice festival kicks off "awards season" in September, and is followed by Telluride, Toronto and New York.

The event kicks off awards season, though as Robert De Niro mused onstage, "I'm a little fuzzy on what independent film is these days". (The Gothams define it as "films made with an economy of means").

It had taken the New York Film Critics Award with ease, but early in 1942, when the 1941 Academy Awards were given, the picture had the aroma of box-office failure — an aroma that frightens off awards in Hollywood.

And this month, the executive board of Unesco put off awarding a new international prize for scientific achievement after an outcry that the award had been financed by Mr. Obiang and named for him.

But it was not a great ceremony generally - things were not helped by the use of the Jaws theme to cut off award recipient's speeches.

Palin's example came from the Web site of Citizens Against Government Waste, a private group claiming to fight government mismanagement that awarded Representative Mike Thompson (D-CA) a "French Kiss Off Award" in April for obtaining $211,509 for research on the olive fruit fly (Bactrocera oleae).

As the event that kicks off award show season, the pressure is most certainly on.

One-off awards will increase by an average of 30%, while the rule limiting payouts to the first three injuries per incident will be scrapped.