excellence

• She has been with the hospital for 19 years, and her research and work on animal-assisted therapy helped earn the hospital's Magnet award for nursing excellence from the American Nurses Credentialing Center. —  The Times-Reporter Home RSS
• Nalley, a 26-year-veteran in farm broadcasting from Owensboro, Ky., has received numerous awards for excellence from the National Association of Farm Broadcasters as well as many other farm organizations.
• Is it possible to have this conversation without using a term like "excellence" - possibly the emptiest term in American English just now? —  WBUR and NPR - On Point with Tom Ashbrook
• Your birth, highly noble, more than gentle: your place, above others, as in degree, so in height of bountie, and other vertues: your custome, never wearie of well dooing: your studies much in al, most in Italian excellence: your conceits, by understanding others to work above them in your owne: your exercise, to reade, what the worlds best wits have written and to speake as they write. —  Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592
• At the same time, Moses, without requiring to be told, opened the oven and brought forth fried fish, meat of some kind, and cakes of he knew not what, but cared little, for their excellence was unquestionable During the meal that followed, Nigel ventured as far as politeness permitted--indeed a little further, if truth must be told--to inquire into the circumstances and motives of his entertainer in taking up his abode in such a strange place, but he soon found that his eccentric friend was not one who could be "pumped." —  Blown to Bits The Lonely Man of Rakata, the Malay Archipelago

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