(1) "That said, most of us will be watching the blue riband events and we will trust BBC1 and BBC3 to find those for us."
(2) What was his first experience with the blue-riband ensemble of El Sistema?
(3) BT, the new kid on the block, has scored a major coup in its multibillion-pound sports broadcasting battle with Rupert Murdoch's Sky, after agreeing a dramatic £900m deal for exclusive live rights to European football's blue-riband club competition from 2015-16.
(4) Yet the loss of Sutton will be seen as a huge blow to one of Britain’s blue riband sports so close to the Olympics.
(5) TV ads built the reputation of the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, dominating the blue riband film category launched in 1954 until recently.
(6) The 1500m, he said, has always been the blue riband event, the one he has wanted to win ever since he first saw it being raced at Barcelona in 1992.
(7) It is understood that around 18 months ago Ronaldo and his advisors spoke to the majority of Europe’s blue riband clubs regarding potentially leaving Real.
(8) 11.36am Gold men's four The focus in the morning of Saturday 4 August falls on Eton Dorney and the final day of the Olympic rowing regatta, where the blue riband event of the men's four is the most eagerly anticipated event.
(9) You sit up all night for the cricket, and late in the evening for some foreign football game, but you can’t be arsed to get up in time for the blue riband event of the Olympic games?
(10) The two-minute ad, Back to the Start, which has won the grand prix award in the blue riband category at the Cannes international festival of creativity, provoked a storm of debate and received acclaim when it was first aired on TV in the US during the Grammys in February .
(11) In athletics, still the blue riband event of the Games and the one in which it is arguably hardest to win medals, the rowing and cycling formula has started to pay off, too.
(12) And, speech-wise, Friday night’s blue riband for rhetoric was taken hands-down by a splendid Owen Jones, a Guardian columnist, who reminded a willing crowd of just how many Corbyn stances down how many decades – Mandela, when Mrs T was labelling him a terrorist; gay rights, when the Sun was in full loony-left mode; talking to Sinn Fein, years before it would bear fruit; opposing the insane arming of Saddam – seemed lost causes at the time, since proved hilariously vindicated.
(13) The veteran American skier, who harboured realistic hopes of adding to his five Olympic medals in the blue riband event of these Games, ended up eighth in the men's downhill.
Ribband
Definition:
(n.) A ribbon.
(n.) A long, narrow strip of timber bent and bolted longitudinally to the ribs of a vessel, to hold them in position, and give rigidity to the framework.
Example Sentences:
(1) One verse says: Ye see yon birkie, ca’d a lord, Wha struts, an’ stares, an’ a’ that; Tho’ hundreds worship at his word, He’s but a coof for a’ that: For a’ that, an’ a’ that, His ribband, star, an’ a’ that: The man o’ independent mind He looks an’ laughs at a’ that.