Sentence examples for grant some sort of from inspiring English sources

WASHINGTON — The most notable feature of the Justice Department file containing hundreds of formal applications beseeching President Bush to be merciful and grant some sort of clemency before he leaves office may be the one name that is not there.

The smart money is betting he will grant some sort of temporary legal status to as many as 4 million unauthorized immigrants.

A suspiciously well-attended referendum on a new constitution was held last March, and presidential elections are due on October 5th, with a promise that the republic will be granted some sort of autonomy.

Citizens United may have granted some sort of right to buy, but what's that worth if nobody is obligated to sell?

Some say it will include 3 million, others 5 million, and it seems like parents of U.S. citizens that meet other eligibility criteria would be granted some sort of deferred action similar to DACA.

For the rest of the day, we both felt as though we'd been granted some sort of special prize, and I got to brainstorm all the delightful ways I was going to use up the leftover pumpkin in my can.

Intensely conscious of animals' emotions, their "humanity," she had to grant them some sort of immortality, too.

Some grants allow some sort of tuition remission; others--perhaps training grants--may not.

Even if it were granted that some sort of market-driven economy is in the public interest (or, to adapt Churchill's quip about democracy, that it is the worst option except for all the rest), the case would remain to be made that the sort of market-driven economy we have in the United States serves that interest.

When you work for state government, as I did in the Texas legislature and later for the governor, lieutenant governor and speaker in the Texas Office of State-Federal Relathens, the words "state flexibility" coupled with "block grant" seem to have some sort of strange magical powers associated with them that can blind even the most astute governor.

Granted, Sununu did mumble some sort of apology and talked about context and how he was referring to Obama's policies on business.