Sentence examples for were accorded from inspiring English sources

"Receptionists at law firms used to be men," and were accorded more respect, she said.

The returning Japanese Americans were accorded a reverence that changed Hawaii's sociopolitical landscape.

When Steinhauer's male peers turned 18, they were accorded men's day privileges, she said.

Councilwoman Christine Quinn, a Manhattan Democrat, said countless volunteers were accorded a similar privilege.

Generally, artists were accorded special significance only where wealth was a major factor in the culture.

Large capital investments were made, and numerous privileges were accorded to businessmen and industrialists.

Women were accorded relatively high social status and could inherit property.

The iron masters became revered craftsmen and were accorded a quasi-religious status.

He was praised, adored, analyzed, best-sold, argued about, and banned in Boston; all the trimmings were accorded him.

But since these banks were private, and differed widely in their standards, their notes were accorded different values.

Other sexual crimes were accorded similarly grotesque penalties: homosexuals, for instance, had a brick wall collapsed onto them.