Sentence examples for attempt to confer from inspiring English sources

Or is it a shrewd attempt to confer upon the movies a legitimacy that may not be warranted by their artistic ambitions?

This is the cardinal error of neurotheology: mixing terms and methods of science and religion in an attempt to confer the former's authority on the latter.

But a row broke out over the status of the Taliban office, which the Afghan government sees as an attempt to confer legitimacy on the insurgents.

The Islamic State, the militant group formerly known as ISIS, claims that it is restoring the Islamic Caliphate in an attempt to confer greater political and theological legitimacy on itself.

This study offers evidence that large-scale trials with even higher doses of the vaccine may be employed to attempt to confer longer-lasting protection.

Others though, according to Armstrong, have become irritated at what they view as attempts to confer an exaggerated leftist agenda to Burns's work in this period.

Over the last quarter-century, there were several failed attempts to confer landmark status on the building; that goal was finally achieved last year.

In fact, religion can be a valuable tool in combating terrorism, refuting terrorists' attempts to confer religious legitimacy on their actions.

The emperor Frederick II in 1225 set the example of attempting to confer upon his new school at Naples, by an authoritative bull, the prestige that the earlier studia had acquired by reputation and general consent.

But the movie has some awfully laborious faux-documentary-type "talking head" sections in which the main players - still played by the actors, but not apparently much aged reminisce blandly about the action: a gimmick that attempts to confer an unearned aura of reality on the proceedings.

In this study we attempted to confer E. coli strain capability of automatic excretion of the chemical by employing a native anaerobic promoter.