Sentence examples for confer on him from inspiring English sources
In fact, nothing should be done to confer on him the international status he so desperately seeks.
An honourable man, he is doubtless itching for the legitimacy that a probable electoral victory will confer on him.
As a start, we have decided to make the white man a member of the clan, Kiyangala-Nansundi, and confer on him the title of Honorary Nephew of the Chief".
Though he lived until the age of 101 (dying in 2005) and saw many of his prophecies come into being, even the collapse of the Soviet Union did not confer on him the elation of vindication.
The bill would confer on him the power to decertify union affiliation for any federal workers because of national security concerns, but it would require him to declare that their mission had changed in a way that justified such a move.
Whether similar grants had been made to Galba, Otho, and Vitellius or were to be made to Vespasian's successors is not known; but a fragment of the enabling law survives, and it includes a provision that can be said to confer on him a naked autocracy.
The records show that from the start of his service career Clark's superior officers conferred on him the most extravagant praise, typically noting in his routine fitness reports that he was an officer of "unlimited" potential.
In the licence of Hakluyt's second marriage dated 30 March 1604, he is described as one of the chaplains of the Savoy Hospital; this position was also conferred on him by Cecil.
(The grandiloquent title of "generalissimo" was conferred on him by the Chinese government in 1932).
* * * Of course, I think he enjoyed the odd persona his voice and mannerisms conferred on him.
