Sentence examples for conferred upon itself from inspiring English sources

And no less than Thomas Jefferson argued with the court's 1803 decision in Marbury v. Madison, in which the court conferred upon itself the power to rule an act of the legislature to be unconstitutional.

Reading was a sacrament that conferred upon those who partook of its grace something which nothing else, in some cases not even religion itself, could bestow.

Susannah conferred upon friendship the glamour of romance.

Full police-court powers were conferred upon him in 1903.

The powers conferred upon the Commission are broad.

It suggests, for example, that Judas may not deserve the reputation conferred upon him by history.

Allawi's medical degree, she wrote, "was conferred upon him by the Baath party".

"As president I have used the powers conferred upon me from the constitution".

The powers conferred upon Tiberius made him almost Augustus's own equal in everything except prestige.

Elections were dispensed with in 1854, when the presidency was conferred upon him for life.

A patent of nobility was conferred upon him in 1887 by the German emperor.