Sentence examples for been conferred upon from inspiring English sources

Nobility had been conferred upon the family as early as 1574 by Emperor Maximilian II.

Prophetically, he renounced the title of "National Unchangeable Leader," which had been conferred upon him in 1938.

Although great discretionary power had been conferred upon him, Hancock insisted on the maintenance of the civil authorities in their "natural and rightful dominion".

In accepting the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, he wondered aloud why the honor had been conferred upon a movement that had thus far failed to win Othe very peace and brotherhood which is the essence of the Nobel Prize".

The Sea by John Banville (Picador, £7.99) It won last year's Booker prize, so does not exactly need the oxygen of publicity: but this almost airless, deliberately stifled book is one of the more interesting titles that the prize has been conferred upon recently.

Look at how many of Atwood's peers (and some of her juniors) have succumbed, in middle and old age, to bitterness – enumerating the prizes or honours that have not yet been conferred upon them; whinging about the ruinous effects of technology they don't understand; obsessing about the rivals and detractors who might threaten their pre-eminence.

Allawi's medical degree, she wrote, "was conferred upon him by the Baath party".

Later, when they were old enough, the burden was conferred upon the school.

Elections were dispensed with in 1854, when the presidency was conferred upon him for life.

When an admissions advantage is conferred upon racial minorities, we call it affirmative action.

The title earl of Warwick was conferred upon him in 1546.