Sentence examples for precursor to granting from inspiring English sources

His portfolio included responsibility for Aboriginal affairs; in 1972 he founded the Aboriginal Lands Trust, staffed by a council of nine elected Indigenous Australians, to assume freehold title of former government reserves in New South Wales as a precursor to granting land rights.

But it has been "allowed," which is a precursor to being granted.

She lives from grant to grant.

It was said to grant wishes.

Or governors deciding whether to grant clemency?

Paschal declined to grant Henry those rights.

Dolly refused to grant Butlin a divorce.

The European Young Investigator Award program was a precursor to the current ERC grants, helping young scientists to assemble independent research groups in Europe.

Of course, passage of the 1964 Economic Opportunity Act and the Higher Education Act of 1965 subsequently established an array of financial aid programs, such as Basic Educational Opportunity Grants (now known as Pell Grants), the Guaranteed Student Loan program (precursor to Stafford Loans) and the College Work- Study program, among others.

The precursor to the underwire bra can be traced back to at least 1893, when New Yorker Marie Tucek was granted a patent for a "breast supporter".

In 1982, Gerri Hirshey, author of Nowhere to Run: The Story of Soul Music, was granted access to Jackson's temporary home in the San Fernando Valley, a kind of precursor to the secluded estate that he would soon design and christen Neverland in homage to his hero Peter Pan.