Sentence examples for shining prize from inspiring English sources

There are serious, bespectacled veterans and graying pols and a raft of lilting-voiced, sharp-tongued and clip-talking thirty-somethings whose eyes are on the shining prize, a cable political show of their own.

"And, first, thanks to the Baseball Writers of America, who went out of their way to select me, a non-member and a part-timer, for this shining prize.

George was her shining prize, she had built him from the ground up, and without him she felt doomed to a life of waiting for Eddie Mannix to die, something that seemed to be taking a very long time.

But today was Pinedale's day in the sun -- and a toasty one, at that, as temperatures reached the mid-20's when the first of 23 mushers crossed the finish line on the third leg of a 12-day, 410-mile sledogog race through western Wyoming, chasing $120,000 in prizes and shining a bright light on small towns like Pinedale.

A kind of Devil's Theory of Value seems to rule: A prize is always assumed to be shining, intact; it is those wrong prize-winners who are discredited by it.

It all depends on what you think the Mercury prize is for – shining a light on smaller bands, rewarding success or trying to decide whether a jazz trio from London have played a better combination of notes than a sensitive Scottish indie band.

The little blue wooden train is well known to boys and girls from the prize-winning television series "Shining Time Station," which Ms. Allcroft created in Britain in the late 70's.

It is a prize given for the purpose of shining a light on how research with odd-sounding origins (really, massaging rat pups?) can produce groundbreaking results.

"Because it's widely viewed as being such a credible award, the Mercury Prize can shine a very bright on the nominees and on new talent in particular.

In my view, there is a new urgency among publishers to find and publish British BAME authors, and I'm pleased that initiatives such as the Jhalak prize will shine a light on their work".

She hopes the prize will shine a light on her village's plight and its perseverance.