Recognition of outstanding performance.

We're not a superior race.

It's the master race. The Herrenvolk!

University of Lagos, Annual Award to the Best Student in Jurisprudence.

University of Jos, Annual Award to the Best Student in International Law.

If we called valedictorian a White Knight Paladin level 20,

University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Annual Award to the Best Student in International Law.

There are statuses. I mean, what is valedictorian, but a status?

Baptist Boy apos s High School, Abeokuta, Distinguished Old Boy 1992.

University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Annual Award to the Best Student in Labour Law.

Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Annual Award to the Best Student in Islamic Law.

The Nigerian Law School, Lagos. Prize to the Second Best Student in Civil Procedure.

After many years of outperformance, GDP growth has slowed sharply.

Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Annual Award to the Best Student in Commercial Law.

I was a young officer then, and I thought like you, that we belonged to a superior race, but the French preferred us to execute them than tell us anything.

If we called valedictorian a white knight paladin level 20, I think people would probably work a lot harder.

There will be winners and losers, of course, but systematic sectoral out performance looks unlikely.

Surely, imitation will someday impinge on superior US growth performance as well.

Since first coming to power, Putin sought to cement Russia s status and its global standing on the basis of superior economic performance.

Of course, some of the better managed emerging market economies will continue to experience rapid growth and asset outperformance.

But you're right I wasn't an A student.

German precision instruments and optical equipment, for example, lost their competitive edge when Japan entered the game.

These companies aren t all competing to build precisely the same kind of vehicle in fact, each considers its own approach superior.

If he keeps quiet, it would mean an Italian is equal to a German, and there's no difference between the blood of an inferior and a superior race.

McMullen graduated as valedictorian in 1980 from Williams College and obtained his Ph.D. in 1985 from Harvard University, supervised by Dennis Sullivan.

However, artificial photosynthesis, inspired by its natural variant, has demonstrated a potential for far superior performance, and provides energy in a form that can be used in our current energy infrastructure.

The materialist approach takes a broader view, arguing that people with more money can essentially purchase better health through superior education, health care, and social services.

Iceland s superior economic performance should thus not be attributed to the devaluation of the krona, but rather to global warming, which pushed the herring farther North, into Icelandic waters.

After France barely survived the tournament s first round, Zidane performed at the top of his game and led the team to the brink of a second World Cup championship.

On one side stood the Serbs, armed to the teeth and secure in their military superiority, jubilant over their victories and driven by ultra nationalistic and religious bigotry. On the other side were the Bosnians, who had far less weaponry yet believed in national and religious pluralism.

His choice of Abdullah Badawi, the current prime minister, helped UMNO regain the Islamist moral high ground that the PAS had been claiming.

Although developer tools made it easy to create and use EJBs by automating most of the repetitive tasks, these tools did not make it any easier to learn how to use the technology.

It would be even more foolish to believe that just because American politicians have failed to dislodge the US dollar from its paramount status over the last 40 years, they could not accomplish the job with another few decades of effort.

Similarly, the series Mad Men, with its dashing advertising executives who consume women like lunchtime cocktails, plumbs the emptiness and destructiveness of early 1960 s male sexual prerogative.

Superior German economic performance has bid up the euro and European interest rates to levels that, while comfortable for the Germans, put pressure on the euro zone s laggards.

The threat to America s international standing is real but, blinded by it, Americans believe that they are still in a position to condescend to China as they would to an inferior power.

South Korea is probably the leading success story, with superb educational attainment and strong employment of young people having taken it from developing country to high income status within one generation.

Was it superior education, good policing, infrastructure development, or something else? Can policymakers elsewhere study what the suburb was doing right and imitate it?

After many years of outperformance, GDP growth has slowed sharply. Annual output will most likely rise by less than 5 this year, down from 6.8 in 2011 and 10.1 in 2010.

I was going to say, I had a great social experience when I went to college that I hadn't had before, a more fraternal experience, where I met six or seven other guys who I studied physics with, and I was very competitive with them, so then I started to get A's. But you're right I wasn't an A student.