Sentence examples for conferred on itself from inspiring English sources

Even if the government hesitates to invoke the powers it conferred on itself in May to block such a deal in defence of its strategic interests, the public sector is still Alstom's main customer in France.

Before the work of construction is begun, the building stones have to be carefully prepared so as to be usable; i.e. the words, signs, expressions, which are to be used, must have a clear sense, so far as a sense is not to be conferred on them in the system itself by means of a constructive definition.

There may be one salient difference between the powers conferred on the Scott inquiry and on the Chilcot inquiry.

For instance, what rights should be conferred on people who spend a quarter of their time in one city?

For two hours they conferred on changes of Long Island estate.

The label of geek conferred on very good spellers is trumped by the mystique conferred on the very best speller: the nuclear glow of No. 1.

I don't need to have them conferred on me.

Democratic delegate votes are conferred on a proportional basis depending on primary results.

(The grandiloquent title of "generalissimo" was conferred on him by the Chinese government in 1932).

This power has been conferred on a blanket basis to all PCSOs.

In it he's conferred on him many titles and honorifics.