Sentence examples for grant the title from inspiring English sources

If songs are like fighters competing to be on top, they're doing so now in a context just as chaotic as professional boxing, with its multiple organizations all claiming the power to grant the title of champion.

John Mack is due to retire as chairman at the end of the year and the board may well grant the title to James Gorman, adding to his duties as chief executive.

Although a son or daughter of the sovereign of Spain was by right infante or infanta of Spain, the sovereign could grant the title, alone, to other members of the blood royal.

It is possible that his mother-in-law, a member of Byzantium's last imperial family, believed that she had the right to grant the title in the absence of an emperor.

Upon his marriage Claus was granted the title prince of the Netherlands and the designation Jonkheer van Amsberg.

Upon his death in 2012, his son Michael was "granted" the title Prince Michael.

For those services he was granted the title chevalier in 1811.

It was only in 1993 that he was granted the title he had long sought.

Subsequently, he was named minister of the Indies (1775) and was granted the title of marqués de la Sonora (1785).

He seized Perugia, a conquest legitimated by Pope Martin V in 1420, when Braccio was granted the title of papal vicar.

In 2 bc he proposed that Augustus be formally granted the title "father of his country" (pater patriae).