"We are very keen that people realise that anyone can nominate and be nominated, in any walk of life".
"President Putin is primarily keen on showing that Russian can nominate its own candidate, that it has its own opinion and voice and wants to exercise its right to participate in deliberations and nominations".
After that you can nominate countries for the next stop.
Although China's election law says that anyone can nominate himself as a candidate with the support of ten voters, until now no one in the capital has been able to do so.
The idea is that people can nominate a few skills they feel they're lacking in (or not as good at they might hope) and then be matched with the relevant teacher.
For the full list of prizes and to nominate visit: www.observer.co.uk/foodawards The remaining categories that readers can nominate are: best restaurant, best cheap eats, best Sunday lunch, best ethical restaurant, best reader's recipe, best bar, best reader's cocktail recipe, best food blog, food personality, sponsored by Weber and best independent local retailer.
The idea that you can nominate a city as a capital of culture, import some national awards ceremonies, a bit of French street theatre, and a few paintings by Klimt and, hey presto, you've got a Renaissance is silly: real capitals of culture are hundreds of years in the making.
Sports editor Peter Spencer said: "The rules are, for starters, that you can nominate people who have predominantly plied their trade, i.e. sport, in this country.
This functional response is a primitive exhibit of lag, but its time line is less imperative than the lag in almost all structural examples that I can nominate.
