Modern "terrorism" has the peculiar property that it relies on its enemies to grant it victory – and why not have a special word for that?
A United States-based petroleum company, MEGA OIL, also hired several American military trainers as a prerequisite for Azerbaijan to grant it drilling rights at its oil fields.
She often insists on pointing out the stupidity of male behavior, and its humor, as if refusing to grant it power.
Singaporean film-maker Tan Pin Pin's prize-winning documentary To Singapore, With Love has been banned in its own country after the government refused to grant it a licence.
This eventually led to a French court having to grant it creditor protection, before the company reorganised and had its debt restructured.
Congress refused to grant it enough power to do that.
Persuading Congress to grant it is another matter.
Astronomers are reluctant to grant it such lofty status.
To declare war against Isis is to flatter it, to grant it the dignity it craves.
It says the school has also refused to grant it union recognition.
