Sentence examples for be commencement from inspiring English sources
noun
The first existence of anything; act or fact of commencing; rise; origin; beginning; start.
- The time of Henry VII ... nearly coincides with the commencement of what is termed modern history. -allam.
Consider what happened two years ago at Rutgers University when Condoleezza Rice was invited to be commencement speaker.
Students at Smith College, likewise, made it clear they did not want Christine Lagarde, the first female managing director of the International Monetary Fund, to be commencement speaker, starting an online petition that eventually led Lagarde to step down as speaker.
The occasion was commencement for the class of 2003 of the African Methodist Episcopal University.
"The first is commencement, because you really join the profession and your family gets to call you doctor.
His default conversational setting is Commencement Address, involving quotation from nineteenth-century heroes and from his own previous commentary, and moments of almost rhapsodic self-appreciation.
Baltimore's Goucher College, meanwhile, said it decided to revoke an honorary degree it gave to Cosby when he was commencement speaker in 2001.
This is commencement season at colleges and universities across the nation.
It's commencement time, and close to two million college students around the country will be graduating in the coming days.
The primary outcome of the study was commencement of medication, which itself followed a strict protocol.
Twenty-eight women withdrew from the study (Fig. 1); principal reasons for withdrawal were commencement of HRT and work commitments/family problems preventing completion of study activities.
This is, indeed, your commencement: You are beginning the most important fight of your life.
