Sentence examples for the first laureate from inspiring English sources

Professor Ostrom was not the first laureate to hail from outside the field.

He was the first laureate to serve a fixed, 10-year term; previous laureates had received a lifetime appointment.

In addition, the first laureate in 1987, natural ecologist M.S. Swaminathan, was an A.D. White Professor-at-Large.

They include author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Rev. Billy Graham and Mother Teresa, who was the first laureate, in 1973.

Turkish writers reacted ambivalently to the prize which made Pamuk the first laureate from a Muslim country since 1988.

Until 1999 the position was a lifetime appointment; Andrew Motion was the first laureate to serve a fixed 10-year term.

The first laureates for the Economics Prize were Jan Tinbergen and Ragnar Frisch "for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes".

"Do you know, I'm only the third laureate to have had the sherry in recent times?

Author and illustrator PJ Lynch has been announced the fourth Laureate na nÓg, Ireland's laureate for children's literature.

Donaldson becomes the seventh laureate, and was described as "a wonderful choice" by one of her predecessors, the poet Michael Rosen.

Gerald Stern, the state's first laureate and a member of the selection committee, said he pushed for Mr. Baraka partly because "I thought it was important for the black community to get recognition".