As a NYSE-listed company, XL Capital adheres to that requirement by publishing and following standards for determining independence under the NYSE's criteria being deemed a "non-executive director" is not sufficient to meet the standards of independence and the two terms are not interchangeable.Moreover, the distinction conferred by independence is not trivial.
The distinction conferred upon these young women is an honor to be sure, but it should be our hope that one day, being a Girl Scout Gold Award recipient, or even a National Young Woman of Distinction, will be just one of the many accolades these sensational girls rack up.
The distinction was conferred last July but Weinstein wisely requested, according to a press release, "to keep the honor private to avoid a conflict of interest with Academy Award Best Picture winner The Artist".
Finally, to make sure that our face images, which were equated for pair-wise discriminability, do not retain other distinctions that confer differences in the appearance of female and male faces, we also collected similarity ratings.
Chaminda Vaas was always assured of a future as the answer to a quiz question, but his career has conferred distinction beyond being the test cricketer whose initials — W.P.U.J.C — are longer than his surname.
Had it worked, it would hardly have conferred much distinction on the buyer, with over 70,000 legitimate ones already in circulation.
Nevertheless, he claimed that his birthplace was south London, as if this conferred some special distinction.
But it conferred an uncommon distinction on Mr. Cobb: he became one of the country's few black Internet millionaires, joining an elite group of blacks in the upper reaches of American industry.
also sometimes conferred honorarily for distinction in the local area or within the University.
Others confer distinction on products that are otherwise hard to tell apart, such as cola.
