Sentence examples for granted him by from inspiring English sources

The president granted him, by decree, the rank of general and El Negro began to behave like a mini-dictator.

Their rift stemmed from the president's attempts to exercise executive powers, not granted him by the constitution, in part by naming his own appointees to high office.

The end credits hammer home, alongside Turing's achievements, his terrible persecution, finishing with the balm of the royal pardon granted him by the Queen two years ago.

Others have said Mr. Vallone squeezed the most he could from the powers granted him by the City Charter -- and usually picked his fights and causes with care.

Further, they argued, because Mr. Noriega is considered a prisoner of war – a status granted him by the presiding judge in his 1992 Miami drug trial – he falls outside the jurisdiction of the French judiciary.

Despite the mandate granted him by the electorate, and economic growth that is outstripping nearly all of Peru's neighbors, foreign observers are still more likely to consider Mr. García a role model than Peruvians are.

In 1988, Gbagbo returned from exile to Côte d'Ivoire after Houphouët-Boigny implicitly granted him forgiveness by declaring that "the tree did not get angry at the bird".

The Royal Academy finally granted him full membership, but by then he was in his 50's, and his reputation was far stronger in France than in England.

A powerfully built chief, whose forehead and chest were covered with red paint, greeted Lynch and granted him permission to camp by the village and to land a propeller plane in a nearby clearing.

Eventually, Nicholas agreed to make George legitimate and granted him the style of "Count Brasov" by decree on 26 March 1915.

Kochevrin said that the the K.H.L. has officially requested that the Islanders and the N.H.L. allow Visnovsky to play for Slovan, either by granting him a waiver or by selling his rights to the K.H.L. team.