Sentence examples for was first granted from inspiring English sources

Those rights are prioritized based on when each one was first granted.

The title of poet laureate was first granted in England in the 17th century for poetic excellence.

The title was first granted in 1818 to Ḥasan ʿAlī Shah (1800 81) by the shah of Iran.

Ms. Hall denied Ms. Greenhouse's suggestion that the company got unjustified favors when the oil contract was first granted.

BP was first granted its South Australian exploration area in January 2011, just eight months after the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

The uncertainty that has enveloped the N.F.L. since Monday evening, when the injunction was first granted, is likely to continue a bit longer.

Special residency and employment rights for Liberians were first granted in 1991 as civil war tore apart their country.

For one thing, Schacter said, the Ninth Circuit's opinion emphasizes that the right of same-sex couples to marry had been first granted, then eliminated.

Ironically, the president to whom these powers were first granted was also the first sitting president to visit Cuba, Woodrow Wilson.

When they were first granted there, conjugal rights had less to do with preserving families than they did with pushing inmates to work harder, according to some accounts of the practice's history.

Though Worden was at first granted safe passage by the local Confederate commander, Gen. Braxton Bragg, he was arrested before he could return north.