Sentence examples for prize holder from inspiring English sources

But he is hardly a polarizing figure, and so he was the local prize holder deemed proper to ask an admittedly cynical question.

The shortlist included two other literary prize holders – the Man Booker prize-winning The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton and Kate Atkinson's Life After Life which took the Costa Prize.

Could Nobel Prize-holder and nuclear expert Mohamed el-Baradei, the most famous personality – in Western eyes, but not in Egyptian - in the 'interim government', whose social outlook and integrity looked frighteningly at odds with 'his' government's actions today, have stayed in power?

As it turned out, the Quadriga committee initially resisted pressure from inside Germany to withdraw Mr. Putin's award, then gave in as prize-holders from abroad threatened to return theirs.

The Mirror has been attempting to improve everyone's chances of security by offering cash prizes to holders of lucky dollar bills.

Lavinia Greenlaw's most recent poetry collection is The Casual Perfect (Faber & Faber) Sylvia and I met at the presentation of the 1961 Hawthornden Prize by its then holder, Alan Sillitoe, to the new recipient, Ted Hughes, each man accompanied by his wife.

Then you could argue that the prize goes to the ticket holder — you — as distinct from the seat holder, the friend.

Had the raffle organizers wanted to award prizes not to the ticket holder but to the ticket buyer, they could have drawn credit-card slips out of a gigantic Mets cap.

It printed numbers inside the caps of its various bottled drinks, announced winning numbers and gave prizes to the holders of the matching caps.

He is the first repeat holder since the prize was created in 2004.

Eminent scientists compare religion to homeopathy and any holder of the prize must suffer from intellectual doublethink.