(Although, in the end, the 1997 referendum ended up aiding the devolution process by imbuing it with a popular mandate).
In the case of two major sponsors, this meant imbuing them with evangelical Christianity, and in another famous case it meant having a fully functioning stock-exchange trading floor in the basement, to show pupils what really matters, which is, of course, making lots of money.
But in recent months he has been faithful to the ruling establishment, imbuing his language with Islamic references and expressing reverence for Mr Khamenei.
He handled the good times well, imbuing his fellow citizens with a newfound confidence.
This year, Red Bull walked off with not only the drivers' championship, but the constructors' title as well.It is, of course, nonsense to talk about companies even those as exotic as Formula One teams—having "genes" and imbuing their products with their own "DNA".
If Mr Miliband's hopes of remaking British capitalism are receding, the Labour leader may at least be imbuing his party with some of his own decency.Perhaps the solidarity among Mr Umunna, Mr Hunt and Ms Reeves could turn into something more solid.
But Mr Blair has taken that doctrine further, characteristically imbuing it with a higher moral purpose.
Jon is a fictionalised version of Jon Ronson, who co-wrote the script and who spent some time as part of Frank Sidebottom's band in the early 1980s.The talented Mr Gleeson is key to the film's light touch, imbuing it with an ability to connect even with the most unmusical of audience members.
Yet the convergence of fashion and high technology is leading to new kinds of fibres, fabrics and coatings that are imbuing clothing with equally wondrous powers.
Japanese translators in the 19th and 20th centuries, faced with the daunting challenge posed by concepts like "society", "philosophy" and "economics", often simply borrowed classical Chinese phrases, imbuing them with new meaning along the way creating what Victor Mair, a Sinologist, refers to as "round-trip words".
Tim Burton and Michael Keaton got closest in their 1989 "Batman" film, imbuing their hero with some of the melancholy and mania he has in Miller's comics.
