The dropout rate was low (<10 %): similar dropout rates have been reported in the literature for degree-granting distance-learning courses in sub-Saharan Africa, while dropout rates up to 70%% are mentioned for MOOCs [ 32].
For instance, if you have two friends dealing with the loss of a loved one, being the shoulder to cry on and engaging in long talks may be the loving choice for one, while granting some distance and silence may be so for the other.
Women, especially, are not often granted the distance that auteurs like Tom Waits can claim.
In theory, given enough time and granted some distance between populations, there would be genetic drift apart to such a level as to induce reproductive incompatibility, particularly in smaller populations.
Total enrollment in postsecondary, credit-granting distance learning courses in 1997-98 was 1,363,670; the number has grown considerably since, although as yet there are no firm figures.
I willingly granted her that distance.
Those confessions came later, through our letters, when geographical distance granted us immunity.
Mr. Powell has also been critical of the agency for moving too slowly in granting the regional Bell telephone companies access to the highly lucrative long-distance market.
They serve us from afar, tele-coolies of globalism, a new worldwide proletariat from whom providence has granted us the relief of distance.
Some wonderful performers are appearing on our screens, and most are granted a far more independent distance from their product than the hapless celebrity actors who have to deliver cheesily scripted endorsements of Chanel or Nespresso.
Whether or not this situation becomes untenable for Iran is a question of how much distance they have granted themselves in making such vast use of proxy agents and militias stocked with Shia recruits.
