Sentence examples for was granted status from inspiring English sources

But most of the wealth that the explorers had helped to discover escaped their grasp when Minas Gerais was granted status in 1720, and its riches passed through the more accessible and developed Rio de Janeiro.

She was granted status for a few years in the 1990s, but it wasn't renewed, so she went back to being undocumented.

He predicts Abkhazia's independence will be recognised "within three days" if Kosovo is granted status as a country.

Despite being here since 2002 and coming in as part of a family of asylum seekers, her family were granted status and she was not.

One more Eritrean man is said to have been granted status this week, although IRIN could not independently confirm the report.

In 2001 the late Richard Holbrooke, then US ambassador, successfully fought for Hadassah, the Israeli women's humanitarian organization, to be granted status.

In 1963 Northern Michigan was granted university status.

Ahmad was granted refugee status four months later.

In June of 1983, the Apollo was granted landmark status..

In 2010 he was granted refugee status in Ecuador.

"I started paying taxes to the UK the day I was granted refugee status," he said.