Sentence examples for granted extended from inspiring English sources

When this was scaled down to four months, the number of graduates who were granted extended visas dropped by 84% in one year.

There were absences through injury, including Per Mertesacker, Gabriel Paulista, Danny Welbeck and Jack Wilshere, and through other significant players – Mesut Özil, Olivier Giroud and Laurent Koscielny – being granted extended holidays after reaching the later stages of the European Championship.

The midfielder missed the club's pre-season tour having been granted extended leave after Brazil's poor Copa América campaign, when he carried extra responsibility for Dunga's team in attack once Neymar was ruled out of the tournament with a four-match ban.

* Commission granted extended powers after 2005 scandal.

There, Paetus had dispersed his forces and granted extended leaves to his officers, so that he was taken unawares at the Parthian advance.

Retailers can be granted extended hours if considered justified by local government (Table 3).

Mr. Connick took advantage of his fine ensemble, granting extended solos to Mr. Barbarin and his chief trumpet player, Leroy Jones.

He had a longstanding policy, he said, of not granting extended interviews; but he indicated he was now ready to talk publicly about his life and legacy, as well as the newly divided court.

The party's reluctance to grant extended rights to ethnic minorities, its generally elitist approach to politics and failure to connect with working-class voters are often blamed for its declining popularity and repeated electoral defeats in the last decade.

Our motivation in awarding such a big grant extended well beyond commemoration, though.

Almost all colleges and universities in the United States grant extended time on tests.