Sentence examples for confer on us from inspiring English sources
The phrase 'confer on us' is correct and usable in written English
It is an idiomatic phrase which is used when someone wants to give another person a beneficial privilege or honour. For example: The Queen decided to confer on us the highest honour of being knighted.
The shampoo people used to be content to show us a pseudo scientific representation of how the goodness of their product would travel down a strand of hair into the bulbous bit at the bottom – ie through your scalp and inside your head — but now they say it can actually confer on us a gold medal-winning mindset.
It seems clear that the IoT will become a definite part of our lives in the future, with all the benefits it can confer on us – as well as the risks.
Of course, ants presumably lack empathy yet manage to organize their own version of civilization, but the degree of freedom our brains and hands confer on us requires a much stronger kind of social glue.
That does not confer on us a freedom to ignore the knowledge that we already have, or to postpone the action that it appears to demand at a given time" [92].
This conferred on us an ambiguous protection that was paper thin".
The standard line is that choice is good for us, that it confers on us freedom, personal responsibility, self-determination, autonomy and lots of other things that don't help when you're standing before a towering aisle of water bottles, paralysed and increasingly dehydrated, unable to choose.
The idea that we would enjoy the benefits that other people had conferred on us and not provide that to the people coming after us?
These values are conferred on us by God, who in the Qur'an (Chapter 17, verse 70) has ordered us to: Treat people with dignity out of respect for their Creator, be concerned with the well-being of every human, have compassion for every suffering person and value every life equally.
We owe a moral debt of gratitude (rather than the mere "thank you" of good manners) only to those who confer benefits on us deliberately and for the right reason, namely out of concern for our own good.
We certify that no party with a direct interest in the results of the research supporting this article has or will confer benefits on us or on any organisation with which we are associated.
We confer on every tweet.
