THE Nobel prizes were instituted as a means to reward individuals or organisations who, as Alfred Nobel's will had it, "have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind".
But each time the newspaper uses Blodget as it has, it is conferring greater expert status on him.
The company stated that accelerated tests have shown it confers "a very high degree of stability" to microfilm.
The persons who occupy it will probably wish to continue in it, and therefore use all their influence and that of their friends to continue in office.--Their friends will be numerous and powerful, for they will have it in their power to confer great favors; besides it will before long be considered as disgraceful not to be re-elected.
Indeed, to the extent we impute to Congress knowledge of our Clayton Act precedents, it makes no less sense to impute to Congress knowledge of Claflin and Dowd Box, under which Congress, had it sought to confer exclusive jurisdiction over civil RICO claims, would have had every incentive to do so expressly.
A state is free to pursue its own fiscal policies, unembarrassed by the Constitution, if by the practical operation of a tax the state has exerted its power in relation to opportunities which it has given, to protection which it has afforded, to benefits which it has conferred by the fact of being an orderly, civilized society.
So the gene could have been favored because it conferred protection against some disease, with thicker hair being swept along as a side effect.
The money and the immense power it has conferred on tribes that had endured grinding poverty for decades have enticed many tribal governments to consolidate control over their gambling enterprises by trimming membership rolls, critics and independent analysts say.
Almost from the moment the Human Genome Project completed its draft sequence in 2000, the intimate genetic knowledge it conferred has been accompanied by promises of a powerful, customized form of medicine.
One, "The Little Match Girl Passion," has had masterpiece status conferred on it by a 2008 Pulitzer Prize and a 2010 Grammy Award.
In fact, they assert in "A Natural History of Rape: Biological Bases of Sexual Coercion," that rape "is in its very essence a sexual act" and that the practice may have evolved because it confers an evolutionary advantage.
