Sentence examples for now conferred upon from inspiring English sources

When the actor Philip Madoc was awarded an honorary degree by the University of Glamorgan in 2001 he told the congregation that, in his time, he had played many distinguished parts – Lloyd George, Hitler, Trotsky, Othello, Dr Faustus, the Master of the Universe – but that he considered the honour now conferred upon him to be the greatest of all.

Instead of humbling its audience through the shock of recognition, the play now confers upon the people who can afford to see it a feeling of superiority — itself a fragile illusion.

But it's increasingly unclear whether diplomas now confer any such potential.

Much like hardy genes confer biological advantage, being aware of memes now confers a feeling of superiority amongst those in the know.

An imperial president is one who claims and asserts powers that the Constitution does not confer upon him.

"But the Constitution does not confer upon the president the executive authority to disregard the separation of powers and rewrite acts of Congress based on his policy preferences".

Honorary degrees were conferred upon A. M. Rosenthal, Pulitzer Prize journalist long with The New York Times and now a columnist for The Daily News, and Constance Emmer Lieber, a philanthropist and advocate of mental health research.

How convenient, and I know we all feel a real sense of catharsis now that someone none of us will ever clap eyes on has been stripped of whatever meaningless bauble was conferred upon him by a bunch of politicians still posing as hapless bystanders to events that continue to destroy people's lives.

North Vietnam has captured mush of northern Laos,… Right now it seems improbable that Laos will long be able to maintain the "free and neutral" status that was officially conferred upon it last….

The legitimacy conferred upon them by the struggle is no longer a mask for their failings in a country that is now scarred by stories of rampant political corruption, crime and poverty.

Because the Michigan Legislature didn't confer upon the Michigan Supreme Court in that case any special authority of judicial review?