Sentence examples for essentially granted from inspiring English sources

It essentially granted investors the right to submit proposals related to director elections that all shareholders could vote on.

But on Tuesday, a federal judge essentially granted a last-minute stay of execution, ordering the patent office to reconsider its rejection of Medicines' 2001 filing.

The justices of the Supreme Court disagreed with a ruling by the lower court that essentially granted the league broad immunity from antitrust restrictions.

For another, unlike most other states, California already essentially granted all of the rights of marriage to same-sex couples, just under a different name than "marriage".

In return for all those bailouts, the banks essentially granted stock options to the government — a potential jackpot for taxpayers once the crisis blew over.

Or as Slate's economics correspondent Matthew Yglesias put it, "Wall Street has essentially granted Bezos the right to operate an extremely forward-looking charitable venture on the theory that at some future point it will acquire monopoly pricing power and start screwing us all".

Russia has grudgingly accepted a plan that would essentially grant Russians multiple-entry visas for travel to and from Kaliningrad.

Prospective drivers must only obtain a commercial driver's license, issued at the state level — essentially granting bus companies the freedom to hire whomever they choose.

Under the reform program, which aims to educate 75percentt of Mali's children by 2008, the government essentially grants towns and villages autonomy over their new schools.

The centerpiece of General Musharraf's plans -- outlined tonight with repeated reminders of the failures of civilian rule -- would essentially grant a permanent place in government for the military.

The artist downsized to the Wooster side of his property in 2010, essentially granting Mr. Berger, the managing partner in the venture, permission to demolish the studio and replace it with a tastefully sybaritic penthouse.