Sentence examples for we've been granted from inspiring English sources

Some of the episodes require no more information than we've been granted — the business of the Ringwraiths, for instance, faceless, black-shrouded riders pursuing the hobbits on black horses.

With geekdom ablaze as San Diego Comic Con kicks off, it's time to stoke up the fires for Doctor Who series nine/35, and for those of us not in California, we've been granted an air date of 19 September, and an impressive first trailer.

Given that the average lifespan consists of only about 4,000 weeks, a certain amount of anxiety about using them well is presumably inevitable: we've been granted the mental capacities to make infinitely ambitious plans, yet almost no time at all to put them into practice.

We all love to prove that we've been granted the gift of foresight, either through our wealth of knowledge or more fantastical means, like The Force.

In his Kenyon commencement address, Wallace laments our "default setting" of "basic self-centeredness" as well as the terrible freedom we've been granted by our individualist culture: "the freedom all to be lords of our tiny skull-sized kingdoms," a freedom that echoes the same image of mortality and futility (Poor Yorick's skull) that haunts Infinite Jest.

Coming off an enormously important (and revelatory) week in the growth and development of The Creators Project, we've been granted reprieve by the honchos today, judiciously given leave on this the earliest leg of the long holiday weekend to take some extra time to reflect and rejuvenate.

We have been granted authority by those who voted for us at the ballot box".

"Obviously we have been granted fertile soil because Obama's approval rating here is through the roof and they are proud of Americans for electing him.

We have been granted full American citizenship, and thus enjoy the rights of voting, practicing our religion freely, learning, and working in this new country.

We set off for the Tour on a Wednesday that year which would have been the 27th, by which time Richard had contacted me and said we had been granted a TUE based on Dr Hargreaves' report.

Noticing the white flag waving, he expressed astonishment that we had been granted a third lap (and then another, which seemed almost endless, for a wholly unneeded cool-down).