Academic libraries offer workshops and courses outside of formal, graded coursework, which are meant to provide students with the tools necessary to succeed in their programs.

In 2011, MIT announced it would offer formal certification ( but not credits or degrees ) to online participants completing coursework in its " MITx " program, for a modest fee.

In formal player dealt settings, such as in a casino or during a tournament, an offer to cut the deck is mandatory and the designated player must perform the cut, generally by inserting a cut card ( a plastic card about the size of a playing card, usually solid-colored ) into the deck ; the dealer then makes the actual cut at that point in the deck.

Before giving a formal definition of universal properties, we offer some motivation for studying such constructions.

For instance, in India most of the chronically poor are wage earners in formal employment, because their jobs are insecure and low paid and offer no chance to accumulate wealth to avoid risks.

Edward responded warmly, and in the Spring of 1466 sent his brother-in-law, Lord Scales, to Burgundy, where Scales made a formal offer of Margaret's hand in marriage to Charles, and put forward Edward's own proposal of a reciprocal marriage between Charles ' daughter Mary and Edward's brother, George, 1st Duke of Clarence.

While many regionally accredited colleges and universities offer paramedic programs only a handful require a formal degree component prior to completion.

The critics suggested replacement of the formal, " over-institutionalized " NSC structure with a smaller, less formal NSC which would offer the President a clear choice of alternatives on a limited number of major problems.

The lack of a formal organization would offer him the opportunity to claim real power when the network matured.

They offer employers the ability to maintain a more formal structure for their workforce.

Following the news report, PCCW issued a statement through the Hong Kong stock exchange on 6 February 2003 morning saying it had not made a formal offer for C & W and was not in takeover talks with the company.

The offer was rejected, but Austria faced several other opponents, and Frederick was eventually able to gain formal cession with the Treaty of Berlin in 1742.

This often entails the would-be buyer ( s ) making a formal offer for each share of the company to shareholders.

This kind of Buddhism had little to offer the illiterate and uneducated masses, and led to the growth of " people ’ s priests " who were not ordained and had no formal Buddhist training.

The young girl at first refused him, but she was exposed to a great effort of persuasion ; first, court officials came and offer her the formal position as a lady-in-waiting to the queen, while it was understood that she would in reality be the mistress of the king.

In November 1884 Robertson told Villiers that the time had come to make a formal offer to the MBW to lease the site, and Villiers duly offered £ 2, 700 ground rent per annum.

The need for clarity of definition alongside the current enormous literature and web ambiguity of the polyphenol term have led Stéphane Quideau, a leading researcher on the chemistry of plant-derived polyphenols, to offer a definition not yet given formal status by IUPAC or other nomenclature entity ( emphasis added ):

In 2008, LACMA made a formal offer to merge with MOCA and to help that museum raise new money from donors.

* Do you agree that Quebec should become sovereign after having made a formal offer to Canada for a new economic and political partnership within the scope of the bill respecting the future of Quebec and of the agreement signed on June 12, 1995 ?.

" Do you agree that Quebec should become sovereign after having made a formal offer to Canada for a new economic and political partnership within the scope of the bill respecting the future of Quebec and of the agreement signed on June 12, 1995?

Currently, research programs that offer the formal research Sc. D.

1995 – Up with People establishes its first formal education agreements with several US universities who will offer academic credit for UWP program completion to students who enroll at their university.

The formal displacement of the geocentric principle far from being Copernicus' primary concern, was introduced only to resolve what seemed to him intolerable in orthodox astronomy, namely, the ' unphysical ' triplication of centric reference-points: one center from which the planet's distances were calculated, another around which planetary velocities were computed, and still a third center ( the earth ) from which the observations originated.

If his scholarship and formal musicianship were not all they might have been, Mercer demonstrated at an early age that he was gifted with a remarkable ear for rhythm and dialect.

The result was that I found myself in the ridiculous position of having made a formal engagement by letter for the next week, only two days before my departure from London.

Thus the Congress marks a formal recognition of the political system that was central to world politics for a century.

National identification was reflected jurisprudentially in law theories which incorporated this Hegelian abstraction and saw law, domestic and international, simply as its formal reflection.

Typical of such an experience was the occasion of a somewhat formal official welcome in the offices of the Union of Soviet Artists.

This was a bitterly fought game, carrying almost as much grudge as a fist fight, with no friendliness exhibited between the teams except the formal politeness that accompanied the setting forth of ground rules and agreements on balls that went into the crowd.

He was not going to Vienna to negotiate -- the simultaneous announcements in Washington and Moscow last week stressed that no formal negotiations were planned.

The inclination was to accept the statement that there would be no formal negotiations.

His interest in the formal study of religion waned when he was sixteen and he substituted for it an interest in Asian affairs.

While young Lincoln's formal elementary education consisted approximately of a year's worth of classes from several itinerant teachers, he was mostly self-educated and was an avid reader.

His works contain the earliest known formal study of logic, which was incorporated in the late 19th century into modern formal logic.

With the Prior Analytics, Aristotle is credited with the earliest study of formal logic, and his conception of it was the dominant form of Western logic until 19th century advances in mathematical logic.

The formal ratification by all 13 states was completed in early 1781.

A similar French influence is seen in classroom ASL in francophone West Africa, where ASL was introduced along with formal education for the deaf by the deaf American missionary Andrew Foster.

At the age of 13, Mackenzie's father died, and he was forced to end his formal education in order to help support his family.

Despite his lack of formal qualifications, Ampère was appointed a professor of mathematics at the school in 1809.

The school, considered one of the first formal adult education centers in America, was also attended by foreign scholars.

At the time of his arrival in Shahr-i Babak, a formal local governor was engaged in a campaign to drive out the Afghans from the city's citadel, and Hasan Ali Shah joined him in forcing the Afghans to surrender.

Allowing himself to be involved in the ecclesiastical disputes that divided Hungary in 1895, he was made the subject of formal complaint by the Hungarian government and in 1896 was recalled.

She bound Andrew as a boy as an apprentice tailor ; Johnson had no formal education but taught himself how to read and write, with some help from his masters, as was their obligation under his apprenticeship.

" After a vigorous debate, a formal vote for impeachment was held in the House of Representatives on December 5, 1867, and failed, 57 – 108.