Sentence examples for conferring on from inspiring English sources

On one reading, the amendment gives the government absolute power by conferring on it the obligation to "prescribe what is right and to forbid what is wrong".

Featured prominently was a picture of two baseball players conferring on the mound.

He is already conferring on strategy with Joseph Lieberman, the Senate's repeal leader.

In Europe, Visconti divided his career between opera and film, conferring on both a distinctive patrician sensibility.

Early in 1876 Disraeli brought in a bill conferring on Queen Victoria the title empress of India.

The designers and a contractor are conferring on the hanging of the vintage Fortuny chandelier that Bilhuber found the day before.

Gold medal Jim Watson, who observed the USA women's gymnastics team conferring on the sidelines and mused: "they might as well be standing around at the mall".

It will never be read now without that knowledge, without that unspeakable pain, which is in danger of conferring on the book a mythical status.

This means conferring on Mr. Abbas the same authority they once gave Yasir Arafat and condemning violent groups like Hamas and their rejectionist agendas.

At Grimetime, a monthly grime night, it's not unusual to overhear German girls conferring on who looks most authentic in their dressed-down Hoxton chic.

Speaking out, conferring on differences, even passing bills -- these are the things that a normal legislature does to represent its constituents.