Sentence examples for which graduation from inspiring English sources

At a time when lawmakers and educators in New York and across the nation are imposing tougher academic standards -- mandatory tests on which graduation and sometimes promotion depends, more demanding course requirements, sanctions on "failing schools" -- states have a commensurate responsibility to provide the resources to give all students a fair chance to succeed.

For both first- and second-generation German candidates, net discrimination decreases for jobs requiring a high school diploma, but the associated decrease is less pronounced in this last case (up to 19%) than in the ones for which graduation is required (up to 14%).

Then there are those dreams in which graduation is coming up and you haven't done your work.

He strove to transform the Naval War College into the Navy's premier postgraduate school, one from which graduation would fit officers for, and mark them out as future flag officers.

These are the places where many students live on campus (which raises graduation rates) and graduation is the norm.

But like others across the state, the district is aware of the looming transition to the new accountability system, which links graduation requirements to state standardized exams.

The police recruit class, which holds graduation exercises today, was told in January that a budget shortfall would prevent the city from hiring them as police officers upon completion of their course.

Participants could run either a 3 or 7 km race, and along the route they symbolically completed the education cycle from year one until they reached the finish line, which represented graduation.

Sullivan has fun with the "lesbian until graduation" phenomenon — which, in "Commencement" at least, involves a lot of kissing and some forays to second base.

The bomber was in a car outside the fort when he detonated the explosives about 6 a.m., just as the graduates were gathering for the graduation, which was scheduled to start two hours later.

It's synonymous with graduation, which is the end of a college experience; however commencement has a second meaning, to begin.