Sentence examples for not bestowed from inspiring English sources

Power is not bestowed by the gods but seized by the ambitious.

(In fact, after being awarded in 2008, the prize was not bestowed again until 2011).

"The thing about a sense of humour is that it's not bestowed on the good.

Actually, the two Academy Awards given to the film "An Inconvenient Truth" were not bestowed on Mr Gore.

That is a status not bestowed at conception but earned with each connection made and word spoken.

In 1968, Hammer won the Queen's Award to Industry, an honour not bestowed on any other film company before or since.

Our billionaire mayor has seen his golden touch turn to dross of late, and so he decided that he would not bestow his endorsement on a successor.

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Spurr's acutely conscious of his status as a professor at an elite university – in one of the messages, he berates another staff member for not bestowing him with his full title.

That leaves the holiday well behind the Soviet-concocted International Women's Day, celebrated on March 8, on which any man who does not bestow flowers or chocolates on wives, the women they work with or teachers is still regarded as a cad.

In this passage, Avicenna states that natural efficient causes do not "bestow any existence other than motion in one of the forms of motion" and that "in the natural sciences, that which bestows existence is a principle of motion".