Sentence examples for grant to himself from inspiring English sources

He obtained a grant to himself and his heirs of all the Route country between the rivers Bann and Bush, with certain other lands to the east, and was made constable of Dunluce Castle.

He granted to himself first a knighthood and then a seat in Parliament.

Justice Obus, who as an administrator was already aware of the impending change, already had to grant one extension — to himself.

She lives from grant to grant.

They include F.B.I. "requests" to interview about 5,000 men, mostly from the Middle East, who recently entered the United States, listening in on conversations between lawyers and some jailed defendants, and the president's decision to grant himself the right to decide whether to use military tribunals to try suspected terrorists.

Proximo explains to Maximus that he was himself a gladiator who fought well enough in the Colosseum to win his freedom, granted to him by Marcus Aurelius himself.

This week Mueller's team and the defense lawyers fought over a particularly sensitive point: whether to grant Prigozhin himself or his associates access to potentially 2 terabytes of Mueller's data about the alleged Russian online trolling operation during the 2016 campaign.

Among the most striking of the films is a rap video that surveys the recent chaos provoked by the president's decision to grant himself broad new powers to push through the constitution.

The Washington Post reported in July that Trump's lawyers were looking into Mueller's potential conflicts of interests and exploring the president's power to grant pardons — to aides, family and himself — as a means of undermining the Justice Department's investigation.

WASHINGTON — Lawyers for Donald Trump, spurred by the president's own inquiries, are exploring his power to grant pardons — to aides, family and himself — as a means of undermining special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, The Washington Post reports.

Trajan's day was too short to hear every speech of every delegation from the provinces, every recommendation to bestow favour or grant promotion, and every appeal to himself as supreme judiciary.