Sentence examples for idea of conferring from inspiring English sources

In days gone by, the very idea of conferring special favours of this kind on the unions was anathema to Mr Blair.Mr Campbell has earned a rest after nine gruelling years.

I have ideas, refined after conferring with my very knowledgeable colleagues.

The reason for this clustering of diseases is not known, but does favor the idea of a common selective pressure conferring advantage to the heterozygote state across disease mutations in the same cluster.

The idea of father and son conferring only after death was done more movingly in JM Barrie's first world war play A Well-Remembered Voice.

The marketplace of ideas, indeed, often confers authority through mere repetition – in science as well as in political campaigning.

Hollenbeck et al. also used the idea of a repeating peptide sequence to confer precise valency as well as spacing to polyvalent constructs.

But the bank presidents, who generally do not confer between meetings, often arrive in Washington with no firm idea of what Bernanke wants.

So NSF officials conferred with their oversight body, the National Science Board, and came up with the idea of creating something new for the agency: a separate capital budget for brick-and-mortar projects.

The idea of immunizing animals against tick feeding was prompted by observations that repeated tick infestation of animals conferred protective anti-tick immunity [ 65, 66].

He read forty-six bonks onuclearar strategy; he conferred with experts, including the dread Herman Kahn; he studied military magazines to get an idea of how the cockpit of a B-52 might look.

The general idea of equality of opportunity is that the political economy of a society distributes positions that confer special advantages and these should be open to all applicants with applicants selected by merit.