Sentence examples for conferred on us from inspiring English sources

This conferred on us an ambiguous protection that was paper thin".

California's contention concerning the indefinitieness of the claim presents no insuperable obstacle to the exercise of the highly important jurisdiction conferred on us by Article III of the Constitution.

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.

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 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.

Flying from Burbank to Oakland last week, the hubs and I were each given a pink laminated card conferring on us modified PreCheck status.

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].

We conducted this review individually, and then the two of us conferred on which records to classify as relevant.