Sentence examples for began grant from inspiring English sources

Once war with the Confederacy began, Grant suffered a terrible loss at Shiloh before sticking with his strategy to lead an important victory at Vicksburg.

As the siege began, Grant lapsed into a two-day drinking episode for which he was later criticized.

Two years later Bentley expanded to include a graduate school that granted master's degrees, and in 2005 the college began granting Ph.D.'s.

Then the state game commission began granting permits to outfitters.

Then he noticed how likable and intelligent the rats were and began granting them amnesty.

The school began granting degrees in 1933, and in 1937 it became one of Washington's three colleges of education.

Starting last year, the Obama administration began granting waivers to relieve states from the law's requirement that all students be proficient in math and reading by 2014.

It was shortly after his trip to Vienna that German authorities began granting him exit visas for concert tours in war-torn Europe.

India began granting patents for medicines in 2005 when it changed its laws to comply with a global intellectual property agreement, but only for drugs created after 1995.

The city began granting landmark status for its buildings in the 1970s, said Brian Goeken, deputy commissioner for the landmarks division of the city's Department of Planning and Development.

After blocking all shipments of rare earth minerals to Japan since Sept. 21, and some shipments to the United States and Europe as well beginning in mid-October, Chinese customs officials abruptly began granting approval on Oct. 28 for most exports to resume.