Sentence examples for presentation of prizes from inspiring English sources

The book world revolves around book launches, literary  societies and the presentation of prizes, all of which take place in central London.

In the early centuries of Olympic competition, all the contests took place on one day; later the Games were spread over four days, with a fifth devoted to the closing-ceremony presentation of prizes and a banquet for the champions.

THE BESSIES (Sunday) The 21st annual New York Dance and Performance Awards -- nicknamed for Bessie Schönberg, a downtown dance fixture and teacher of choreography -- are an occasion for the presentation of prizes but also a party for a whole dance community.

You'll always find something to keep you busy; there's plenty of arranged entertainment, from yoga and dance classes to an evening movie and a weekly presentation of prizes, but though they say the après ski is buzzing, I didn't find any evidence of it.

Her graduation was announced in The New York Times, and her name was listed in the commencement program — Estelle S. Murov, in gold letters on ivory vellum —as the valedictory speaker, to be followed by the Florence Nightingale Pledge, presentation of prizes and diplomas, benediction, recessional and a reception and dance at the Hotel Astor.

The annual "Back to School" celebration was held in Kabul's Amani High School, and included the presentation of prizes to the top students from across Afghanistan in 2003.

More than 200 participants and members of the international and Moroccan press corps packed the conference hall to take part in the opening ceremony, which featured readings from the Koran, welcoming statements, and the presentation of two prizes for children's literature.

It actually seemed cruel on the German that he had to sit through a public presentation of his prize.

"The author awarded the Nobel Prize makes up his or her own mind regarding the ceremonies involved in the presentation of the prize," Sara Danius, Permanent Secretary of the Academy, said in a statement.

Selected by a panel of judges that included Patti Austin, Al Jarreau and Luciana Souza, Horn will receive a $25,000 music scholarship, a recording contract with the Concord Music Group and — as Concord's John Burk speculated in his presentation of the prize — perhaps the opportunity to work in the studio with Jones, who would almost certainly find cause to rethink his position.

As Sweden gears up for the presentation of the Nobel prizes, a small theatre in Stockholm is about to reveal a darker side to the institute's patron, Alfred Nobel.