Sentence examples for be held to confer from inspiring English sources
Regarding naturalization (acquisition of citizenship other than at birth), the treaty contained a provision stating that "nothing herein contained shall be held to confer naturalization... upon the subjects of China in the United States".
In any case, the failures of Mr. Torricelli should not be used to confer an unfair advantage on a party that deserves to be held accountable for its past decisions.
It is hard to imagine a country better prepared for the frothy burden conferred by Eurovision, a Continental battle of the bands that will now be held in Baku next spring.
Before the Treaty of Lisbon came into force, the executive power of the EU was held by the Council: it conferred on the Commission such powers for it to exercise.
"China has absolutely no credibility in its claim that Yongyi Song confessed," the statement said, adding that any confession "is suspect as being coerced when he is held in detention for months without an opportunity to confer with counsel".
The Nieveses were being held yesterday at the 83rd Precinct in Brooklyn while agents conferred with prosecutors to prepare the case for arraignment.
TSH is constituted of two subunits: the alpha subunit is held in common with the gonadotropins luteinizing hormone and follicle-stimulating hormone, and the beta subunit which is unique and confers biological specificity to the intact hormone [ 71].
The director lowered himself to the riverbed to confer with LaGesse, who was holding a battered suitcase containing a speaker that was supposed to transmit his voice to the audience above.
Perennial herbaceous biofeedstocks (PHB) have been proposed to confer multiple ecosystem services to agricultural lands.
"We have repeatedly held that such a generalized grievance, no matter how sincere, is insufficient to confer standing".
Preconditioning is the phenomenon whereby prior exposure to a stimulus, often one normally held to be injurious, triggers phenotypic changes that confer resistance to subsequent insults.
