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'bestowing' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it when you want to express an act of conferring or granting something, especially an honor or gift. Example sentence: She was honored for her charity work by bestowing the "Humanitarian of the Year" award.
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Present participle of bestow
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This sounds very much like the robust concern view, yet the bestowal view differs in understanding such robust concern to be the effect of the bestowal of value that is love rather than itself what constitutes love: in bestowing value on my beloved, I make him be valuable in such a way that I ought to respond with robust concern.
In response, novelist Salman Rushdie defended PEN for bestowing its Free Expression Courage award to the French magazine and criticised writers who objected to it on the grounds of alleged racism.
Leoz, on whom the English FA's 2018 World Cup bid team discussed bestowing some kind of honour – though they stopped short of naming the FA Cup after him, which his advisers are said to have suggested – is accused of taking millions of dollars in bribes for the granting of Copa América TV rights to the media company Traffic, beginning as long ago as 1991.
Led by Mayo Shattuck, Constellation has, almost unnoticed, grown to become the biggest power trader in America.At the height of new-economy lunacy, shareholders were bestowing on America's youthful energy-trading industry the sort of gravity-defying valuations typical for stars of the bubble.
For all that, Sir Richard emerges from these pages as a tireless deal-maker, with remarkable powers of persuasion.Indeed, those who also come off poorly in this book are the businessmen, politicians and reporters, not to mention those responsible for bestowing knighthoods, who gave in so readily to the Branson charm.
The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques was bestowing blessings on a noble deed 13 families had waived their right, under Islamic law, to demand that the murderers of their relatives be beheaded amid a sombre host of robed princes and retainers.
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Then, instead of looking at the fundamentals of the securities themselves, they simply assumed that they could rely on the credit ratings the ratings agencies bestowed, even though those agencies' conflicts of interest were well-known.
Their vote is far too precious to bestow on any of the parties on offer.
Fifty years later the Irish Republic will commemorate the rebellion with equal national enthusiasm but with most of its population more concerned with the huge debts bestowed upon the current generation than the imperative of the "dead generations" urging it on to take back the north of Ireland and fulfil its historic mission towards unity.
Hawass said the builders came from poor families from the north and the south, and were respected for their work – so much so that those who died during construction were bestowed the honour of being buried in the tombs near the sacred pyramids of their pharaohs.
Samsung is close to completing its palatial glass box in San Jose, Amazon is planning to bestow Seattle with a cluster of jungle-filled biospheres, while Google is reviving the 1970s dream of sweeping the world beneath an undulating transparent tent.
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