Sentence examples for of conferring from inspiring English sources

The other performers generously do this wonderful thing of conferring "Jesusness" on them.

The IPCC announced the proposals to stop the practice of conferring after the inquest into the shooting of Mark Duggan.

bargaining team every time because they're simply unable to delegate the responsibility of conferring".

It is philanthropy in the service of conferring advantage on the already well-off.

Small wonder that home-educating parents are afraid of conferring power on people who do not know what it is that they are judging.

It will never be read now without that knowledge, without that unspeakable pain, which is in danger of conferring on the book a mythical status.

Here, between the scooters and the shoppers, was a huddle of conferring commandos, and a scrum of reporters from local TV stations.

They were good-looking young men, casually but expensively dressed, aware of conferring the favor of their youth on the elderly party.

Initiation lost its importance as a means of conferring civic status; it became a purely religious ceremony.

In 1987, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame recognized his contributions to American music by inducting him in only its second year of conferring such honors.

The same is true of talismans, which offer the additional advantage of conferring supernatural power on other people, even on the deity, from a distance.