Labor leaders say they fear that Mr. Obama will announce at the meeting in Colombia that he is certifying that Colombia has fulfilled its promises under the action plan, an important step before the free-trade agreement is officially implemented.
It has studied the coin microscopically and matched it with one of the original dies used to strike it, "and is certifying that this coin is genuine," Mr. Pickens said.
Divorce is certifying that a marriage is dead, not killing it".
The Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center is certifying coffee that is shade-grown, a method that does not require clear cutting of forests and is bird-friendly, as it does not destroy the habitat of migratory birds.
What, if anything, did he do?' " After the guilty verdicts on Wednesday, Thomas D. Thacher II, president of Thacher Associates, a company hired by Testwell customers to review several of Testwell's projects, said: "Anybody who is certifying as to issues that affect safety and structural integrity must be double-checked.
But it was at that conference in July 1997 that Marinoff announced that the A.S.P.C.P. was certifying counselors and that a test was already available.
She had been certifying as official travel trips that most people would consider private, he said.
"What we are certifying, and my deepest hope, is that as you go out from Harvard, you will indeed advance, promote, and serve," he said.
To track lenders, HUD monitors how frequently their loans are defaulting, a sign that a firm may be certifying unqualified borrowers or possibly even engaging in fraud.
A major part of what Wall Street firms do for their clients is, in effect, to vouch for their financial prospects: when a bank underwrites a company's bond offering or an I.P.O., it is essentially certifying that company in the eyes of investors.
If the purpose is credentialing — certifying that the student has earned passing grades in a predefined suite of courses that, collectively, constitute the requirements for a diploma — then it is fine to require anything you want, including algebra.
