Sentence examples for had conferred on from inspiring English sources

History and geography had conferred on Montreal the challenging mission of being a mirror for Canada, he observed in 1967.

(Years later, commenting on a trifling play superbly acted by Sir Alec in London, Mr. Kerr, not content with the title Queen Elizabeth II had conferred on the actor, dubbed him "St. Alec").

Notwithstanding the title that Trump had conferred on him, Icahn described his advisory role as "unofficial," and said, "I have only ever made suggestions that I believed would benefit all companies in particular industries, never any one particular company".

The lawyer, Mr. Siminovsky, 46, had been appearing before Justice Garson for four years and bragged in recorded conversations of the many meals, loans and gifts he had conferred on the judge in order to obtain his favors, Mr. Hynes said.

The two-page order issued by the judge, Fern A. Fisher, the deputy chief administrative judge for the New York City courts, broadened the authority that she had conferred on the special prosecutor, the Staten Island district attorney, Daniel M. Donovan Jr., in an initial order she issued on Aug. 31.

The idea that we would enjoy the benefits that other people had conferred on us and not provide that to the people coming after us?

Yet the narrative is bulging with classical allusions: Men have made me variously keeper of the dawn, of twilight and the wind, have called me Argeiphantes, he who makes clear the sky, and Logios, the sweet-tongued one... have conferred on me the grave title Psychopompos, usher of the freed souls of men to Pluto's netherworld.

While invertebrates have one member from each class, the increased genomic complexity of vertebrates has conferred on them three paralogous members, namely dystrophin [ 2], utrophin [ 3] and dystrophin-related protein 2 (DRP2) [ 4] in the dystrophin branch and α-, β- and γ-dystrobrevin [ 1, 5- 9] in the dystrobrevin branch (γ-dystrobrevin has been lost in tetrapods).

Finally, it has conferred on criminal terrorists a status they desperately want but do not deserve.

Egypt and Jordan have conferred on whether to downgrade relations with Israel by expelling its ambassadors.

Altman's wavering fortunes have conferred on his career a sort of quixotic nobility.