The phrase 'confer credit' is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
It means to give recognition or acknowledgement for something. Example: The professor decided to confer credit to the top-performing student in the class by awarding them with a scholarship. Here, 'confer credit' is used to indicate that the professor is giving recognition or acknowledgment to the student's academic achievements.
Things are perhaps moving in Syria – though this confers little credit and no comfort on the West.
Science as a social institution, for example, has adopted a reward system that confers honors, prizes, or credit to scientists and mathematicians who make important discoveries or prove major theorems.
That balance point could be negatively influenced by the extra credit points conferred by performer status".
Drafted by Henry Waxman and Ed Markey, with support from the Obama administration, the bill originally envisioned a cap-and-trade system whereby credits conferring the right to emit greenhouse gases would be sold to the highest bidders.
That turnaround was symbolically completed last month when Standard & Poor's became the last of the three major credit ratings agencies to confer investment-grade status on Ford's debt, which the agency had rated at junk-bond levels for the last eight years.
A greater focus on competency will mean that 'academic currency', a term used to describe courses that transfer credit to degrees or confer work advantage will have a greater influence on course content.
In all of the participating states, a home's listing on the National Register of Historic Places confers instant eligibility for the tax credit; so does a home's status as part of a National Register Historic District.
We recognize the bias of calculating method mix based on CYP, since a method is given full credit for the protection it confers in the year it is delivered.
But his pleas have been largely ignored by the Securities and Exchange Commission, which regulates credit agencies, and the marketplace has continued to confer rich margins on his competition.
