Legal authority to grant degrees is conveyed upon individual public or private postsecondary institutions by the provincial and territorial legislatures.

Rights of common and distress are based upon still older institutions, forming the very basis of primitive law.

She did not hesitate to use her influence, values and global network to call upon governments, institutions and supporters to help improve the children's lives.

Yet pay-or-play is defensible because it would cover 30 million uninsured Americans by building upon existing institutions.

It also suggests that educational reforms will be of limited success unless complemented by policies such as contract compliance which act directly upon demand-side institutions.

About 1875 he began to bestow many of his treasures upon various institutions.

First of all, we call upon institutions to act as if the Constitutional Treaty were in force, especially with regard to the Council.

This resolution therefore calls upon EU and international institutions to take stock of the consequences entailed by these vast population movements.

In so doing you have admittedly also imposed an obligation upon the bodies and institutions of the European Union to review their practices.

But a great many difficulties have also been visited upon private institutions, already hard hit by a soft economy and a shrinking student pool.