Sentence examples for granting of home from inspiring English sources

Australian casualties during these battles were very high and coupled with the drying up of reinforcements from Australia, the rejection of the proposal to introduce conscription and the granting of home leave to men who been serving since 1914 meant that by the end of the war the AIF was severely stretched to the limit.

The city's mayor, Ada Colau, who took office in 2015, stopped the granting of new tourist licences for homes and hotels.

Loan impairment charges doubled at Abbey in the first quarter of the year though the Spanish owned bank, which also owns Alliance & Leicester and the savings of Bradford & Bingley, granted £5bn of home loans in the first three months of the year.

As the bill is currently drafted, judges will be able to disagree with the home secretary's granting of a warrant on matters of process but not substance.

Today, his bungling threatens to sink his provincial New Democratic Party government, and at least to hole the national NDP, still struggling for recovery.Last week, with a television crew hovering, federal police raided Mr Clark's Vancouver home, investigating the granting of a casino licence to a neighbour.

The housing market slowed down in October, with the number of mortgages granted to home movers down 20% on a year ago, according to data from the Council of Mortgage Lenders.

Last week, the British Bankers Association BBABA) reported that the number of mortgage approvals granted to home buyers lifted to a six-year high of 46,521 in December.

"We are not taking anything for granted of course but at home, at Old Trafford, the opportunity to go through is a big one," Ferguson said.

Denmark granted a measure of home rule to Greenland in 1979; Nunavut was established in 1999 along with a sweepingly powerful Land Claims agreement designed to atone for Canada's previous offences against the aboriginal peoples.

Nebraska's constitution grants the option of home rule to cities with more than 5,000 residents, meaning they may operate under their own charters.

But it had been granted a modicum of home rule, and what we used to call the "comprador bourgeoisie"—the pliant agents of the colonists were gone.