Insofar as the account is fundamentally a bestowal account, Singer claims that love cannot be justified, that we bestow the relevant kind of value "gratuitously".
Evidently, in the years since Woolf's male predecessor, Nick Anstee, exited the Mansion House in the manner of Dick Whittington, without honours, parity with Joan Collins has been ordained by a system whose overriding preoccupation, Woolf's promotion confirms, is the bestowal of establishment, not popular, approval.
As with My Lai, the events in Haditha are likely to shine a cruel light on the gap between the stated point of staying in Iraq the bestowal and consolidation of freedom and the grim reality, in which American soldiers are often feared and hated, and come in turn to see all Iraqis as enemies.
Hong Kong's leadership-selection process now has many of the worst features of genuinely competitive elections, but without their saving grace, the bestowal of some sort of legitimacy on the winner.
Command systems utilize the open or veiled power of physical coercion or punishment, or the bestowal of wealth or prerogatives.
Donation of Constantine, Latin Donatio Constantini and Constitutum Constantini, the best-known and most important forgery of the Middle Ages, the document purporting to record the Roman emperor Constantine the Great's bestowal of vast territory and spiritual and temporal power on Pope Sylvester I (reigned 314 335) and his successors.
He wrote a carnival comedy, Z chłopa król (1637; "From Peasant to King"), which, as its title indicates, carried a motif made popular in the introduction to Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew the seeming bestowal of noble rank upon a person of lowly birth.
The bishop raises his hands over those taking confirmation and prays for the bestowal of the sevenfold gift of the Holy Spirit (according to Isaiah 11 2 3, wisdom, understanding, counsel, strength, knowledge, piety, and fear of the Lord).
Although, in the second decade of the 13th century, some masters placed themselves under the jurisdiction of the abbot of the monastery of Sainte-Geneviève on the Left Bank of the Seine, it was around the bestowal of the license by the chancellor of Notre-Dame that the university grew.
The Archbishop told Gubay and the gathered congregation during the bestowal ceremony, "Albert, your generosity – thoughtful, intelligent, measured yet seemingly boundless – is a great sign of the generosity of God.
The interest lies not in its design, however, but the reason for its bestowal.
