Sentence examples for given the hand of from inspiring English sources

To placate him and the gods, he was given the hand of Rajo Devi's sister, Omni.

Of Bardas's sons, Antigonos was appointed Domestic of the Schools while still a boy and still held the post at the time of his father's murder, while little is known about the other son, except that in 858 he was given the hand of his father's mistress, whom Bardas had discarded in order to marry Theodosia, and was appointed monostrategos ("single-general") of the Empire's European themes.

French armies occupied Vienna twice, and in 1810 the Habsburgs had to endure the indignity of giving the hand of one of Francis's daughters, Marie-Louise, to Napoleon in marriage.

He arranged dynastic marriages with other Hellenistic kings, taking the daughter of Seleucus IV as his wife and giving the hand of his sister to Prusias II of Bithynia.

The patient's eyes become hollow and sunken, and the skin becomes wrinkled, giving the hands the appearance of "washerwoman's hands".

Government might be given the illusion of hand-held, one-stop manageability, but no actual managing is going on.

They were given the honor of handing the flag over to their present-day replacements, young Marines who proceeded to raise it.

The family physicians were given the responsibility of handing out the questionnaires to the people that they had selected.

Although confidentiality was maintained, the family physicians were given the responsibility of handing out and collecting the tool from the respondents.

Executives at the Plaza have given the back of their hands to the smoking ban.

Given the smoothness of my hands, they probably thought playing Geraldine was a marginally more masculine occupation.