But Armain's poem did not place in the Reflections competition.
The creative talents of a junior high poet, a high school photographer and an elementary school composer are taking the students to the state level of the annual PTA Reflections competition.
Competing for the nightly £1,000 prize are the autobiographical Duet; Athletes, a reflection on competition in the modern world; Dead Gig, a tribute to hippie dinosaurs The Grateful Dead; and The Wishing Well, about the dynamics of desire.
Mainstream Muslims object to "instrumentalisation" of the Koran.Guido Steinberg, a terrorism expert at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin, sees the project as a reflection of competition inside the Salafist camp.
The reason dates from the 2004 election, when "Faithful Citizenship," the bishops' official booklet-length reflections, met competition from punchier conservative voter guides insisting that the church's position on five "nonnegotiable" issues — abortion, euthanasia, embryonic-stem-cell research, human cloning and same-sex marriage — should determine how Catholics vote.
Eighth-grader Molly McMillen won the Literature Award of Merit for her poem, "Diversity Is". The Reflections contest is a nationwide competition that celebrates young achievements and creativity in art, literature, photography, film, dance and musical composition.
That is, are the conflict ratios in the lexical decision task a reflection of lexical competition or might they rather reflect a deficit in word knowledge?
"What we are seeing is the reflection of renewed competition among insurers, where some are winners and some are losers," Ms. Suter said.
The academy had gone two years without handing out any such punishments, Mr. Robertson said, so this year's increase was probably a reflection of the competition fostered by such a close race.
Net revenues from institutional investors were unchanged at 20 basis points, but they were well below the U.S. institutional-market average of 30 basis points–a reflection of fiercer competition in Europe.
