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• “This so-called conferral ceremony honoring Sara Hurwitz, a 32-year-old mother of three, was unprecedented, and everyone in the room knew it.”

  FailedMessiah.com

• “Although the precise medical reason for this conferral of immunity remains to be fully understood, when the distribution pattern of the disease is overlain with areas prone to malarial infections, the correlation becomes evident.”

  The Huffington Post: Randall Amster: The Most Common Disease You've Never Heard Of

• “It is extraordinarily wasteful of the talents of a broad range of people, when we proceed as if leadership could only exist ex officio, as if conferral of office created a leader, as if leadership were non-existent apart from administrative titles.”

  The Huffington Post: Thomas Worcester: Do Good Leaders Abound In The Catholic Church?

• “Now, as a generation ago, I would object to the conferral of Columbia University credit for ROTC courses taught by instructors who have not received an academic appointment.”

  The Huffington Post: Katherine Franke: Return of ROTC to Columbia University? An Issue Much Larger Than 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'

• “Consent" is an indispensible part of the rite for conferral of marriage.”

  Do you think "Consent is Sexy"?

• “Participation prizes create value during and after the competition -- not through conferral of the prize award itself but through their role in encouraging contestants to change their behavior or develop new skills that may have beneficial effects during and beyond the competition ...”

  The Huffington Post: James M. Gentile: Scientific Innovation Should Be Highly Prized

• “Students 'outside blogging and reporting efforts are also at times accepted and celebrated prior to conferral of a degree, as iconic individuals such as Alana Taylor and Brian Stelter have proven.”

  The Huffington Post: Dan Reimold: Student Journalists Are Not 'Subhuman'

• “Participation prizes create value during and after the competition - not through conferral of the prize award itself but through their role in encouraging contestants to change their behavior or develop new skills that may have beneficial effects during and beyond the competition ...”

  The Huffington Post: James M. Gentile: Scientific Innovation Should Be Highly Prized

• “See Flory 1987, 123–24 on evidence for posthumous conferral of the title and the evolving meaning of Augusta throughout the early imperial period.”

  Simon & Schuster: Caesars’ Wives

• “Three studies examined the relationships among anger, gender, and status conferral.”

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