Sentence examples for than granted from inspiring English sources

Permits were also intended to be increasingly sold by auction to polluters rather than granted as allocations.

Cameron said many were "completely pointless", with applications roughly five times more likely to be rejected than granted.

Now, for Point Given and his challengers, their greatness will have to be earned rather than granted.

It is true we have held appellate jurisdiction improper when district courts have denied, rather than granted, motions to dismiss for improper venue.

Espacenet offers free access to more than 70 million patent documents worldwide--most of them patent applications rather than granted patents--from 1836 today.

Particular attention is devoted to request sequences and the portrayal of services as offered rather than granted, and question answer sequences and the portrayal of claims as volitional rather than acquiescent.

There was nothing he loathed more than granting a divorce.

Moreover, their workload is far higher for rejecting than granting an application.

Rather than granting a life of indolence, tenure offers serious scholars the guarantee that their research will not jeopardize their careers.

From Otto III's reign (983 1002) onward, kings often bestowed these counties on bishoprics and great abbeys rather than granting them again to lay magnates.

Rather than grant his political arch-rival a full discharge for his crimes, Mr Rajapaksa only shortened one of his jail terms.