Sentence examples for recording grants from inspiring English sources

mostly recording grants made by the kings and chieftains.

Vikramaditya VI was not only an able warrior but also a devout king as indicated by his numerous inscriptions that record grants made to scholars and centers of religion.

Charters were documents drawn up to record grants of land by kings to their followers or to the church, and they provide some of the earliest documentary sources in England.

There was richness, depth, and uplift in the momentary stillness, the same sort of hard-won serenity that Stars of the Lid records grants me on occasion all from some dumb piece of spinning metal in the ceiling of the store.

Yet the Army Board of Corrections for Military Records granted upgrades nearly half of the time for other cases.

A committee of three longtime Kennedy family associates, who for decades refused all requests to look at the records, granted Mr. Dallek's, in part because of his "tremendous reputation," said one of them, Theodore C. Sorensen, who was the president's special counsel.

In 1216, another Alan de Mortimer is recorded granting land to the monks of Inchcolm Abbey.

But accounting rules require the company to record such grants as a noncash expense.

The company said in December 2006 that it had overstated earnings by $271.9 million in the previous nine years because of improperly recorded option grants.

The practice, known as backdating, records option grants on dates when a company's stock price is low, giving executives a bigger payout when they exercise the options.

The state puts movers through a yearlong probation, audits their records, then grants a permanent license that movers are eager to advertise.