Sentence examples for can only confer from inspiring English sources

Specific mechanisms, such as target mutation or enzymatic modification of drugs, can only confer cross resistance within single antibiotic families.

"If the self-esteem that comes with 'being a writer' can only be conferred when a publisher is willing to invest, it follows that the more they invest the more self-esteem they afford".

When Germaine Greer, in "The Female Eunuch," wanted to stress what a woman gave away in a traditional marriage, she used the passive voice: "The married woman's significance can only be conferred by the presence of a man at her side, a man upon whom she absolutely depends.

In treating DMD, significant long-term benefit can only be conferred by dystrophin restitution, and of all the novel experimental therapies to treat DMD discussed here, only gentamicin administration and oligomer-induced exon skipping have resulted in readily detectable dystrophin expression in DMD patient's muscle.

Thus essentially complete resistance to thiomarinol can be conferred by an altered ileS gene (tmlM) while the mupirocin resistant ileS genes (mupM and mupA) only confer partial resistance.

Delivery by cesarean delivery only confers an independent protective effect.

The addition of spices to foods not only confers tasty stimuli but also antimicrobial properties.

Most of these mutations only conferred potential drug resistance.

Ownership cannot be conferred but can only be claimed [ 32] and this HSSMP development process has demonstrated that principle.

For now, the researchers can only guess why continuous midwife care seems to confer important benefits.

We can only speculate on whether or not this might confer some advantage.