Sentence examples for thus granting from inspiring English sources

Thus, granting agencies are forced to make essentially arbitrary choices when distributing financing.

Thus granting temporary refuge may lead to a protracted stalemate, with the walk-in effectively residing in post premises.

"It is the right of every human being to choose their gender," the detailed judgment stated, thus granting rights to those who self-identify as neither male nor female.

IN EARLY July Edinburgh belatedly erected a statue, complete with semi-invisible hand, to Adam Smith, thus granting one of the fathers of economics, and Scotland's most meritorious son, long-overdue recognition.

To make matters worse, federal drug forfeiture laws allow state and local law enforcement agencies to keep for their own use 80% of the cash, cars and homes seized from drug suspects, thus granting law enforcement a direct monetary interest in the profitability of the drug market.

On the day the bridge was opened (October 16 1995), the government stopped the ferry service it ran between Skye and the mainland, thus granting the consortium that built the bridge a monopoly; there was no other means of getting on and off the island.

Whether the breathing space thus granted would be used wisely or squandered is another matter.

And then there are the monks... human brains in robot bodies, thus granted immortality and the time required to earn salvation.

The king inaugurated the Order of the Garter with a great feast and joust, but the identity of the lady thus granted immortality is uncertain.

The biggest risk lies in Islamic militants who are citizens of European countries, and thus granted entry under the Visa Waiver programme.

This is a little more akin to a medieval ritual in which the offender makes a public avowal of his sins and is thus granted forgiveness, and possibly a plenary indulgence.