Sentence examples for they grant it from inspiring English sources

"The whole experience left me thinking about that Aristotelian injunction, 'Be careful what you ask the gods lest they grant it you'," he says now.

The film shows the Iranian criminal-justice system working more or less as it's meant to: The officials Nader and Razieh encounter are tired, and sometimes frustrated, but they're honest, and when there's room for mercy they grant it.

At Dulles, the Sunday after Trump signed his travel ban, lawyers asked C.B.P. officials for access to detainees, presenting them with a copy of a federal judge's order that they grant it.

Both groups have stated that they strongly prefer there to be no definition at all in the Bill rather than the new one now offered, though they grant it is an improvement over an earlier draft.

Condemned if they grant it, pilloried if they don't.

They granted it only those powers necessary to fulfill its mission of protection and to "produce certain blessings".

One of the lawyers, Brian Sun, said he had asked prosecutors for the deal, "and they granted it".

Purchased by Gov. Van Twiller in 1637 for a couple of beads, confiscated by English and they granted it to Capt.

To do so, it will need those two, along with other euro-zone governments, to disburse the last slice of the bail-out they granted it in 2012 (and, in all probability, to agree a new, third bail-out programme).

On Tuesday, several Democrats pushed back against Obama's trade agenda, and said they would demand a host of conditions for fast-track, if they granted it at all.

Veterans Affairss Minister Michael Ronaldson pointed out yesterday that the government had not granted permission to Woolworths to use the word, which is fine until you realise just how many places they did grant it to.