Sentence examples for conferring of from inspiring English sources

The proceedings began with a prayer by the university chaplain, and proceeded with President A. Bartlett Giamatti's conferring of degrees.

Enormously wealthy already, they griped not about insufficient funds or security but about the conferring of higher status, signified by more dollars, on other people.

Despite its conferring of a supernatural talent upon its hero, "Amour" has as its stock in trade a reassuring predictability, not unsettling surprises.

The Queen's conferring of the ancient title of Duke of Cambridge on her grandson just hours before the ceremony deprived his wife of the title Princess Catherine.

Against the English government he fully asserted his determination to obliterate the Statute of Provisors of 1390, which had outlawed the papacy's conferring of an office or benefice.

But the conferring of holy orders (ordination of presbyters) and administering the sacrament of confirmation, together with administration of the diocese (jurisdictional area), were confined to the episcopate.

The six-member board, which has ultimate control of the company and the foundation that owns it, are like a council of elders conferring rites of passage.

They were good-looking young men, casually but expensively dressed, aware of conferring the favor of their youth on the elderly party.

The President of the Russian Federation is the main conferring authority of the award.

Nor has the United States to be ashamed of its record of conferring the burdensome responsibilities of high office on women.

Conversely, changing N-terminal 34 amino acid of FGF21 to the corresponding sequence of FGF19 confers activation of FGFR4.