Sentence examples for have conferred on from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

No wonder he was blackballed at the Country Club of Virginia, which would have conferred on him the social standing he so desperately craved.

Capture the field of language and the political field will be yours because the words everyone responds to will have the meanings you have conferred on them.

And while European regulators have conferred on the deal with the F.T.C., it remains unclear what effect the European decisions will have on the deliberations in Washington.

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.

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

Harvard Law School has conferred on him its highest award, placing him on the same pedestal as Nelson Mandela and the legal team that argued Brown v. Board of Education.

(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").