Sentence examples for conferred on someone from inspiring English sources

"I have no idea how much of his success is due to smarts versus luck and all the additional advantages that are conferred on someone who becomes successful.

Prof. Joshua Dressler of the Ohio State University law school said, however, that the failure to be convicted in a criminal trial does not, by itself, confer innocence on someone.

"The concern would be that a state agency could confer immunity on someone that a district attorney is investigating without the district attorney's knowledge," said Paul Shechtman, a former federal and state prosecutor who is now a defense lawyer.

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.

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).

And is it conferred on all humans?

was conferred on him.

The archbishopric was then conferred on Dunstan.