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Nobel, a wealthy Swedish industrialist who invented dynamite, provided few directions for how to select winners, except that the prize committees should reward those who "have conferred the greatest benefit to mankind".
The reason for this conflict, Schelling explained, was that not wearing a helmet conferred a slight advantage on the ice; crucially, it gave the player better peripheral vision, and it also made him look fearless.
Unfortunately society is based overwhelmingly on white, male, middle-class values which have conferred supremacy and formed a consensus.
Jesse Norman's Edmund Burke: Philosopher, Politician, Prophet (William Collins) is an excellent political biography of a towering Whig parliamentarian who conferred an ideological definition on the creed of conservatism.
When they came back from the commercial break, we learned the officials had conferred instant replay, ruled Rose's foot was on the three-point line, which it was, and deducted a point: Memphis 56-49 Kansas.
It noted that C019 officers were "located within a room and conferred " when completing their statements three days after the shooting.
The High Court unanimously held that ss 198AB and 198AD are valid under the aliens power conferred by s 51 xix) of the Constitution.
But until Guardian Australia conferred on me the singular honour of "as live" blogging the event for an Australian audience on Sunday evening, I've never really had cause to reflect on why I love Eurovision.
But most intriguing is a special appointment he conferred on the archbishop last summer.
But yes, the economy and jobs grew, the AAA rating was conferred and maintained, inflation was tamed, interest rates hit 60 year lows, debt is completely manageable, and Australia remained, throughout the past six years, the envy of the advanced Western economies.
(I'd spend the next six weeks bemoaning the arbitrary nature of video review. To wit, if the basket hadn't occurred right before a TV timeout, would the refs had conferred the replay?) I immediately got that disgusting feeling in my stomach typically reserved for Philly sports teams in big moments.
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The word "conferred" primarily functions as a past participle or past tense verb . It describes the action of bestowing or granting something, such as a title, right, or benefit, as seen in Ludwig's examples. The word often emphasizes the formal or official nature of the granting.
Expression frequency: Very common
