Sentence examples for try to grant from inspiring English sources

The confirmation of Mr. Southers had been held up for months in part because Republicans were concerned that he would try to grant collective bargaining rights to tens of thousands of the agency's employees, including the 45,000 security screeners at the nation's airports.

Still, in light of the criticism, Davison said her publishing house might try to grant access to the Collected Works to certain non-institutional libraries, under an agreement that would not interfere with its ability to sell the collection to universities.

If the latter is what "thinness" consists in, then an advocate could try to grant the transmission of a thinner warrant but still emphasize that transmission failure is the rule when the warrants are thicker (Davies 2003b, but compare Wright 2003, p. 72).

"My concern is that someone in the security establishment released this clip, at this time, in order to try to grant legitimacy to those aberrant interrogation methods, which apparently include unacceptable use of violence, against people from this group," Smotrich told Israel's Army Radio.

During the primaries he expressed support for Eliot Spitzer, then the governor of New York, who was trying to grant driving licences to illegals.

Still other schools are trying to grant more access to lockers during the day so that students are carrying fewer books through the halls.

(In fact, when she did die, in 1978, my father tried to grant this wish but was informed by the superintendent that it could not be done).

Instead of trying to grant rights to chimpanzees, the court notes that NhRP could push for further legal protections for the animals, perhaps by advocating for stricter state animal welfare laws.

In fact, if Congress tried to grant copyright to a flat "slavish" reproduction it would be a violation of the Constitution.

Will there be a collective yawn and belly scratch by the Left if the state... tries to grant minors the vote?

When Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) tried to grant workers the same rights as corporations in the recent Central American Free Trade Agreement, he was voted down.