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  • noun

Synonyms for conferral

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nounthe act of conferring, as of an honor

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Synonyms for conferral

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nounthe act of conferring an honor or presenting a gift

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The Aga khan will also receive honorary Doctors of Laws degrees from the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University in an unprecedented and historic joint conferral ceremony in Vancouver on 19 October 2018.
Emotional psychic qualities as self-confidence, fight conferral, responsibility regarding self-behavior and the result of the fight are qualities which have to be developed and enhanced during the fight, influencing even the other aforementioned qualities.
Although relatively small in number (70 institutions), these institutions tend to be very large in size and so contribute notably to the conferral of associate degrees and the short-term certificates we consider here.
Jake Englehart was memorialized as an important founding father of the town that bears his name, during an early July conferral of the Order of the North.
In the regard, Dulay said 'the constitutional conferral of tax exemption upon non-stock and non-profit educational institutions should not be implemented or interpreted in such a manner that will defeat or diminish the intent and language of the Constitution.'
He said that convocation is more than just a formal ceremony for conferral of degrees: it is the recognition of a long standing tradition, whereby the university and all its stakeholders applaud the achievements of students.
In this analysis, we explore the conferral of associate degrees over the last 20 years, overall, and to students of color.
It contextualizes the development of new market supervision mechanisms as the operationalization of open-textured EU competence conferral rules and principles, looking at how they promote an image of integrated market supervision and shape an executive cooperative federalism system of operational support that structures the development of supranational market supervision mechanisms in different sectors.
The Kansas Arts Commission Outstanding Undergraduate Faculty Award that he received in 1990, the rise to Distinguished Professor status in 2004, and conferral of the 2010 NCECA Award for Excellence in Teaching attest to his achievements in the classroom.
Almost two months before the Mamasapano tragedy, the Trustees of Xavier University-Ateneo de Cagayan at its regular meeting on November 29, 2014, approved the conferral of the following commencement awards as follows: Doctor of Humanities, honoris causa to Teresita Quintos-Deles, Secretary, Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process, who was also invited to be the Commencement Speaker; Fr.
Once the reader accepts that this is a book about the machinations of the upper echelons of the art world, rather than a meaningful consideration of what constitutes vital art in the 21st century, there is fun to be had in the author's disguised conferral of praise or damnation upon her more celebrated subjects.
Photographs documenting GCC's "summit" in Morschach, Switzerland, flattened a week's worth of exhibition planning into stock images of agreement and conferral. Their free shuffling of such signifiers as Swiss vistas, Arab traditional dress, and Apple electronics flashed the new look of global exchange, one where luxury trumps modernism as the lingua franca.
Following degree conferral, the graduate obtains national certification by passing an examination administered by a recognized certifying body, such as the American Nurses Credentialing Center.
They railed against clericalism, the wealth of the church, the use of arcane language that distanced the laity from its inner operations and made them second-class citizens, the sale of relics, the conferral of indulgences in exchange for alms, and a theology that left laypeople to be docile and unthinking consumers of a faith long bereft of either witness or spiritual energy.