"confer value" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to mean to give or add importance or value to something. For example, "The professor conferred value on the research project by offering suggestions for improvement."
English interprets the rise of the prize as part of the "struggle for power to produce value, which means power to confer value on that which does not intrinsically possess it".
More important, if done properly the review will be a pioneering undertaking in cultural archaeology, for it will explore not merely the value that is inherent in urban artifacts but also the mechanisms a society uses to confer value on some artifacts and withhold it from others.
This may be an extreme example, but it demonstrates there is no rule book, not even a reliable set of general principles, when it comes to figuring out what one generation will confer value on and pass down, and what it will consider just plain old stuff and throw out.
One commentator who has objected to Zagzebski's argument by querying this claim on her part is Berit Brogaard (2007; cf. Percival 2003; Pritchard 2007: §2), who claims that a valuable cause can indeed confer value on its effect in the relevant cases.
The most direct way to approach this question is by considering whether it is really true that a valuable cause cannot confer value on its effect where cause and effect are kept separate in the way that Zagzebski claims is problematic in the case of knowledge.
Only persons have this kind of worth, and they have it because the capacity to set ends, or to confer value on things, is the source of all objective value (as Korsgaard 1996 and Wood 1999 have argued), and the capacity for autonomy is the source, on the one hand, both of the obligatoriness of moral law and of responsible moral actions, and on the other, of all realized human goodness.
Research investigating fern genomics and proteomics could yield new tools for molecular biology including promoters and genes responsible for arsenic accumulation pathways that can be transferred to other organisms to confer value-added traits for academic research and industrial applications.
That's the irony in a capitalistic society: by conferring value on an object, you save it".
The only thing conferring value on those dollars, of course, is trust in other people's trust in them, which is both weird and magnificent.
When someone pays $1 million for an original Brice Marden painting or $6,000 for an original Vera Wang dress, one of the things that confers value is its status as an original.
Ms Swinton was surrounded with relics of famous dead people who had become icons in an earlier age, including Freud, Queen Victoria and Charles Dickens.Her art often speaks of connections with the past, especially of the contemporary obsession with celebrity and how it confers value on seemingly meaningless objects".I love the power of the relic.
