Sentence examples for bestowed title from inspiring English sources

As he explained, the "Sir" was not an affectation or a casually bestowed title like Duke or Count.

Apart from spending a year with the National Ballet of Canada in 1967 and 1968, she remained Capab's leading ballerina until her retirement from the stage in 1988; four years earlier she was given the rarely bestowed title of prima ballerina assoluta.

The Qing bestowed titles, gifts, and imperial calligraphy on virtuous widows and encouraged the construction of memorial arches and shrines in their honour to reinforce this female role.

Perhaps there is a clue in the practice of bestowing titles as the highest accolade in our profession.

He created a flag and a complex honours system for Poyais, bestowing titles on the most senior settlers, and the highest ones on himself.

Indeed, before the fur trade made great quantities of manufactured goods available, potlatches were few, whereas feasts, though also formal but not occasions for bestowing titles and gifts, were very frequent.

Mr. McCain's advisers said that the senator's campaign would also be bestowing titles on its most prolific fund-raisers under an "incentive system," with privileges for those who raised the most money.

In 26 years of awarding the sexiest man alive title, People has bestowed the title only once to a man of color (Denzel Washington in 1996) and never to an out gay man.

Later the Qianlong Emperor bestowed the title Marquis of Extended Grace posthumously on Zhu Zhilian in 1750, and the title passed on through twelve generations of Ming descendants until the end of the Qing dynasty in 1912.

At the beginning of 1675, Louis XIV bestowed the title of her lands upon her.

It merely seems to me that clarity regarding who has bestowed this title would provide useful.