consolation prize

I thought that after coming second in so many of his subjects, Charlie ought to have been given a consolation prize at least.

American officials are trying to find a consolation prize for Bulgaria, the runner-up, which says it would like a base too.

I can't help feeling like it's some sort of consolation prize for not letting me in his life.

Vice presidents , they note , often get a window seat at their bullpen desks, a sort of consolation prize for having lost an office .

The move was interpreted by some analysts as a consolation prize for Israel after Bush told Olmert of his opposition to an attack on Iran.

As a consolation prize he became the chairman of Gazprom, the company he had created.

Some americans once gave familiar manual product "award" , in the huge motor roar, become better than nothing "consolation prize" .

An anonymous benefactor stepped in to provide the money of the consolation prize.

Before I left the contest, I gave Linda my Star Trek cardboard cutout as a consolation prize .

Hence in this game you could win a consolation prize even if you lost the main event.

The firm got a consolation prize in December, when it bought Compellent Technologies, another data-storage firm, for $960m.

Most Russians grumble about their lives, but see "international prestige" as a consolation prize.

Mr Kaminski was promptly given the new group's leadership as a consolation prize.

This time I won a consolation prize again, haha!

You like S but she doesn't like you. So what do you think of me? Who am I ? Am I your consolation prize?

That's no consolation prize; that's true victory.

While fourth place looks relatively assured, it is very much the consolation prize after a title bid that failed to materialise.

But parents should not offer a quick consolation prize or say, "It doesn't matter, " because it does.

If you put money on these sagepredictions, there is this consolation prize: You can still claim losses against your income taxes.

Consolation Prize----a Ton of Gold