Sentence examples for was conferring from inspiring English sources

He was conferring with young men wearing Che Guevara T-shirts.

Rosa Hinojosa, who was conferring with the man behind the counter, gave him a sharp glance.

It sounds appallingly vain to say so, but I felt that I was conferring a favor on her.

Coppola was conferring now with Moss, telling her to snake up the pole a little more slowly.

Mr. Haynes said the Defense Department was conferring with the secretary of state, Colin L. Powell, on the tribunal regulations.

Mr. Rendell was conferring with other governors Friday about going to Washington to lobby for the measure.

Under its terms U.S. citizenship was conferred collectively on Puerto Ricans.

(The grandiloquent title of "generalissimo" was conferred on him by the Chinese government in 1932).

In 1976, she was conferred with an honorary Doctorate of Science by Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

It was conferred two years earlier, for the invention of the phonograph.

Noble status was conferred by Charles on Joan's relatives at her request.