Those rights were bestowed by parliamentary votes in a series of treaties.
Poetry prizes were bestowed on Jericho Brown, Jay Hopler and Joan Kane.
All manner of awards were bestowed, but there were also the best of the best.
Academy Awards were bestowed for best dance direction from 1935 to 1937, and then the category was eliminated.
The March 5 shootings in Santee, Calif., for example, were bestowed with the title "Terror in Our Schools".
Over the years numerous other honours were bestowed on him, including the Order of the Garter in 1995.
In Rome also, laurel crowns were bestowed as a mark of honour, especially on civil officials and returning warriors.
The nobles were divided into those who inherited their titles and those upon whom titles were bestowed for lifetime only.
And the fictional names Doe and Roe were bestowed by the court upon the two protagonists in the odd drama.
At the same time, literary awards, previously limited to Western writers, were bestowed on Russian writers as well.
While it does not seem as if the public's money was spent illegally, it does seem likely that political favors were bestowed without accountability.
