Sentence examples for had granted to from inspiring English sources

(It is to "The Secret History" that we owe the Empress's famous complaint that Nature had granted to womankind only three orifices by which to be satisfied).

Sweetening the deal, Viacom agreed to immediately vest all the long-term stock awards it had granted to Mr. Karmazin, including 800,000 options given last year.

In Davis v. Gray the state of Texas had granted to a railroad corporation of that state 16 alternate sections of land per mile along the line of the road which was thereafter to be located.

Facebook announced last week that it planned to use cash to pay off a $1.9 billion tax bill related to restricted stock units that Facebook had granted to employees over the years.

[Reuters] The Bulgarian government cancels an exploration permit that it had granted to Chevron allowing it to explore for natural gas through the controversial drilling process known as horizontal hydraulic fracturing.

In 1147 Henry laid claim to Bavaria, which Conrad III had granted to Henry II Jasomirgott, margrave of Austria, and in 1151 he tried in vain to take possession of the duchy.

The measure would have granted to gay couples the same rights and benefits that the state provides to married couples.

Is it not time we reviewed the remarkable gift we have granted to companies in the form of limited liability?

Tongka's forests are included in licenses that the government has granted to timber and coal mining companies.

The Roman emperor Constantine the Great had granted toleration to Christians in 313.

The previous year, Bradburn had granted asylum to two men who had escaped slavery in Louisiana.