Sentence examples for was to confer from inspiring English sources

One of Goebbels's less propitious schemes was to confer honorary Aryan status on Native American tribes, in the hope that they would rise up against their oppressors.

There is tension over Syria and the entire Middle East situation, and over the news that Prime Minister Macmillan was to confer with Pres.

By Mollie Panter-Downes The New Yorker, November 2 , 1957P. 156 There is tension over Syria and the entire Middle East situation, and over the news that Prime Minister Macmillan was to confer with Pres.

It became fashionable to argue that the most useful thing a business school, particularly a top one, does for its students was to confer on them its stamp of approval by letting them in.

The purpose of the Orphic ritual was to confer divine life sacramentally on its initiates so that they might attain immortality through regeneration and reincarnation, thereby freeing the soul from its fleshly bondage.

The objective of this study was to confer the angiogenic activity of VEGF121 upon the biomaterial fibrin, a natural substrate for endothelial cell growth and clinically accepted as 'fibrin glue'.

Japanese and South Korean envoys are to confer with American officials in Washington on Wednesday and Thursday.

Mr. Kerry is to confer with them on Middle East issues, including Syria, on Saturday.

If Whitehead's job is to confer a kind of eminence on the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, Tomson's job is to get things done.

The idea, he explains, is to confer herd immunity by vaccinating as many at-risk men as possible.

A better strategy may be to confer tolerance of cellular dehydration.