Sentence examples for promises to confer from inspiring English sources

Bedeviled by a Southern past at odds with the secure respectability that Harvard promises to confer, Quentin cracks up and drowns himself in the Charles River.

While the line seemed to be amusingly ironic (because a threat is being made, not an offer), Steiner was unsatisfied that the difference between an offer and a threat was merely that one promises to confer a benefit and the other a penalty.

Mr. Suozzi seemed conciliatory and promised to confer as the proposal is refined.

When the primetime show aired a decade ago, viewers believed in its promise to confer stardom on the winner.

While modern society no longer worships clay idols, many nevertheless are drawn to experiences and possessions that promise to confer power and purpose.

Chemical modifications of nanoparticles surface holds promise to confer them improved biocompatibility.

Goldstein views campus life with a sharp eye, documenting the jealousies within academic departments, the solitariness of a devoted physics scholar, "too alone to have any idea of how lonely he is," and the hovering cloud of threat or promise that Stockholm may call to confer its Nobel blessing on a member of the faculty.

Traditionally, the manifesto has been treated as a sort of sacred text: the solemn covenant of pledges that a party promises to deliver if the people confer it with power.

In fact, the latter is a very important issue of the postgenome era, as it promises to elucidate how genetic variation interacts with the environment to confer individual resistance or susceptibility to disease, success of medical interventions, and drug response.

Indeed, stacking of R genes that confer resistance to a broad and complementary set of isolates promises to deliver potatoes with durable late blight resistance using genetic modification, be it through transgenic or cisgenic approaches [2], [7].

Transgenic technology promises to facilitate the genetic selection process by directly modifying the undesirable genetic traits that confer vulnerability to pathogens or introducing specific genes that are related to resistance to fish pathogens into fish [ 1].