Sentence examples for might have conferred from inspiring English sources

The glorious weather might have conferred a benevolent ambiance to the outing, but every single one of the estimated 200,000 demonstrators in Paris (and 3.5 million throughout France) meant business.

Katherine Rourke Bonnem Bronxville, N.Y., Nov.17, 2009 • To the Editor: In his recent article about the evolutionary origins of religion, Nicholas Wade claimed that atheists would be reluctant to accept that religion might have conferred some adaptive advantages upon our ancestors.

(Have you noticed that neuro- has become the new nano-?) In online discussion groups, grad students confer about which philosophy programs are "experimentally friendly" the way, in the 1970s, they might have conferred about which programs were welcoming toward homosexuals, or Heideggerians.

Once, this might have conferred an evolutionary advantage to hunters competing for early-bird specials, but now it just seems to set the stage for conflict between when your body thinks you should hit the sack — and rise — and when you do.

After the war was over they granted to their enemies in defeat the citizenship (p83 which they might have conferred in the beginning and so avoided the war.

The T allele might have conferred a selective advantage, perhaps reducing the risk of cancer.

Had they but coveted such honours as citizens might lawfully receive, the state would have conferred upon them through peaceful means all that they sought to obtain by unlawful agitations. 2 To this atrocity was added a crime without precedent.

He expressed the hope that the strategic impetus for another push for comprehensive peace in the Middle East might flow from the traumatic events that have conferred on Mr. Bush a more influential role as arbiter.

If Mexico has a comparative advantage in steel production, it might be because U.S. environmental and labor standards have conferred that advantage on Mexico.

To pull it off, the administration might have used a little more help from allies and a little more of the legitimacy that U.N. endorsement could have conferred.

He is reported to have conferred with the president regularly.