Sentence examples for attempting to grant from inspiring English sources
Gen. Richard B. Myers's disparagement of war critics is an embarrassing display of hubris and runs contrary to the rights the United States is attempting to grant Iraq.
Today, judges in New York state heard the first in a series of appeals attempting to grant "legal personhood" to the animals.
As the parliamentary vote approached, the military attempted to grant itself some permanent political powers, a move that had sparked the current round of protests.
If the mother attempted to grant the brave soldier's wish, he might end up with the sort of fanesca people eat in Guayaquil.
In general, reforms have attempted to grant greater autonomy to management, to impose financial discipline, to encourage firms to merge and restructure, and to expose them to competition.Fine in theoryThese are all sensible aims.
In 2013 he accused his fellow justices of plotting a "black-robed supremacy" when they struck down a law passed by Congress in the 1990s that attempted to grant primacy to heterosexual marriage.
There'll be no rage-inducing section in the debates when two men discuss what reproductive rights they'll attempt to grant or deny women should they be elected.
Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina had placed a block on the nomination, saying he feared that Mr. Southers would attempt to grant collective bargaining rights to tens of thousands of the agency's employees, including the 45,000 security screeners who have become a familiar presence at the nation's airports.
The former Fifa secretary general was found to have repeatedly chosen private flights over commercial ones "without any business rationale for doing so" and attempted to grant the TV and media rights for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to a third party "for a fee far below their actual value".
The US administration also signalled its approval of what George Bush euphemistically refers to as "alternative measures" of interrogation with the passage of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 in October, which attempts to grant officials retroactive immunity from prosecution for war crimes.
Prior WTO agreements have included similar protections, but the U.S. has repeatedly brought political pressure against countries that attempted to grant access to generic AIDS drugs.
