Sentence examples for decision to confer from inspiring English sources

Luckson A. Chipare, the regional director of the Media Institute of Southern Africa, welcomed the government's decision to confer.

The decision to confer a title on Sacks may anger Jews from both the progressive and strictly orthodox branches who do not recognise him as their religious leader.

SIR —Your suggestion that the decision to confer a knighthood on Salman Rushdie, who is generally hated by Muslims all over the world, was taken with not much thought about its polititical ramifications is hard to believe.

In a Sept. 18 letter, Joel Conarroe, a former chairman of the National Book Foundation, calls into question the educational and literary mission of the foundation on the basis of our board's decision to confer the 2003 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters on Stephen King.

The vote came after four City Council members signaled that the council might overturn a commission decision to confer landmark designation on the second building because they did not want to jeopardize a hotel tower planned for the site at Broadway and 57th Street.

The decision to confer sainthood on the nuns is seen as a gesture of support for the dwindling Christian communities in the region.

One view is that although on the face of it, the Princess Caroline decision appears to confer a right to privacy to restrain the publication of any picture of an individual - unless it could be said to serve some pubic interest - it in fact relates more to the harassment of repeatedly being photographed in public over many years.

In a final letter to Dr Southall in February this year, Ms Doran - who in 2005 had advised Keele's vice-chancellor that "we may... wish to take a view that we don't want him as an emeritus professor because of adverse publicity on the university" - insisted that the decision not to confer the title had been "no reflection on the current difficulties to which you refer".

ASU now says they have not yet made a decision whether to confer an honorary degree on Obama, but he may receive a diploma (or several) when he gives the commencement address at ASU regardless -- the diplomas will just have other people's names on them.

Even though adults can waive their rights, decisions not to confer with a lawyer must be made in a "knowing and intelligent waiver".

The move follows the University of California's decision in July to confer honorary degrees to its former students who were interned.