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  • proper noun A title of honor or respect; more common in the form Excellency.

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  • The Subcommittee on Coin Design Excellence is a classic bureaucratic response to a perceived problem: create committees, study the issue for awhile, create guidelines, apply guidelines, have a bunch of meetings, and then congratulate yourself for solving the problem.

    Great Coin Design, by Committee : Coin Collecting News 2010

  • The Center for Excellence is a HRSA-funded program promoting research in minority issues, minority student and faculty recruitment and retention and advancing leadership roles of minority faculty.

    Academic General Pediatrics Fellowship 2010

  • The Center for Excellence is a HRSA-funded program promoting research in minority issues, minority student and faculty recruitment and retention and advancing leadership roles of minority faculty.

    Academic General Pediatrics Fellowship 2010

  • Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.

    March 9th, 2009 wheatland_press 2009

  • I heard about the fine people at the Fenris Badwulf School of Telemarketing Excellence from a friend.

    A Victims Perspective 2008

  • The Fenris Badwulf School of Telemarketing Excellence is proud to announce the creation of Global Warming Laboratories on the leafy, bio-dioverse campus of our Ivy League class indoctrination institution.

    Archive 2007-01-01 2007

  • The DELOS Network of Excellence is a four-year project funded by the European Commission under the Sixth Framework Programme to synergize and foster technology for the next-generation of Digital Libraries.

    April 2007 2007

  • Excellence is not given an opportunity to flourish when our strengths are not differently nurtured and supported.

    A University Education That Canadians Deserve 2003

  • Mr. Hogg, a recipient of the Teaching Award in Excellence at Osgoode Hall among many other awards of merit, will address the most fundamental of issues with respect to the Charter -- that is, "is it a good thing?"

    The Para-Dice Riders Charter Case Against Police Roadblocks 1997

  • That's why I think the book, In Search of Excellence, is so successful in America, in Canada, and around the world.

    Riding the Winds of Change 1986

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