A tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction

Usage examples of award.

This case involved the validity of an act of Congress directing the judge of the territorial court of Florida to examine and adjudge claims of Spanish subjects against the United States and to report his decisions with evidence thereon to the Secretary of the Treasury who in turn was to pay the award to the claimant if satisfied that the decisions were just and within the terms of the treaty of cession.

Nevada, in the absence of acquiring jurisdiction over the wife, was held incapable of adjudicating the rights of the wife in the prior New York judgment awarding her alimony.

Nevertheless, a typical arbitration award simply orders one party to pay money to another.

I will consider declaring the mediation closed and asking that an arbitrator be assigned to conduct a hearing and make an award.

In the course of the session I shall probably have occasion to request you to provide indemnification to claimants where decrees of restitution have been rendered and damages awarded by admiralty courts, and in other cases where this government may be acknowledged to be liable in principle and where the amount of that liability has been ascertained by an informal arbitration.

All I had left of Esteban was a salvage ticket awarding me 900 pennyweight in unspecified isotopes.

I want to give you a heads up that the Bureau will be awarding you the Shield of Bravery for the job you did in Nevada.

Exactly as Charley Baines had predicted, it was Randall Birley who scooped the awards from Twelfth Night both as director and actor.

It was Helen Troy herself, on stage growing from a small tramp to a delicious star, who presented Randall Birley with his Best Actor Award.

Even Orlan Trahern, though certainly no disrespect could be awarded to that fine man, was a trifle reserved, and sought after the advice of this bondsman, who had proven no more than a stone in the porridge of the brave Sir Gaylord.

Tell me, do you think Lola will be going to the Bookie awards next week?

It was a profile of a young man at Yale named Chesa Boudin, who had just been awarded a prestigious Rhodes Scholarship.

It came in a box lined with blue velvet and it stood on a shelf next to the Capa photograph, set slightly apart from the other international awards Clee had won for the excellence of his work.

The councils of all four planets awarded Miss Marks a substantial retirement fund at the conclusion of the wars, and Coda granted her this land and the home.

For instance: it struck me early on that, while there were indications of other feet at work two pairs of highly active rubberised soles on hard floor, and one pair of light leather which I tentatively awarded to the catlike Tabizi there was no slapping of crocs, thereby leading me to the conclusion that Haj was either suspended above the ground in some way, or shoeless, or both.