Sentence examples for were formally granted from inspiring English sources

The couple were formally granted a divorce yesterday, six months after papers were filed by Fielder-Civil.

Before the rout of Matilda's force at Winchester (September 1141), Stephen's queen brought Geoffrey back to the royalist side by more concessions, possibly including the viceregal powers in London, Middlesex, and Hertfordshire, which were formally granted to him by Stephen in December 1141.

Still, on August 7, 2003, she was formally granted a new Social Security number.

In 2 bc he proposed that Augustus be formally granted the title "father of his country" (pater patriae).

The baronetcy of Stichill – a village near Kelso, Roxburghshire – was formally granted in 1683 to Robert Pringle of Stichill and the "male heirs from his body".

The right of the Chinese people, through their representatives, to have a full voice in the creation of the fundamental laws of the land, instead of being compelled to accept a Government-made Constitution as heretofore provided, is formally granted.

Farther east the powerful duchy of Saxony was also split by partition between the Wittenberg and Lauenburg branches; the Wittenberg line was formally granted an electoral vote by the Golden Bull of 1356.

After the Supreme Court rejected Mr Assange's plea to appeal their ruling he entered the Ecuadorian embassy on 16 June 2012 to claim political asylum which was formally granted two months later.

Ouattara was formally granted Ivoirian citizenship in 2002, and in late 2004 the National Assembly voted in favour of changing the constitution to specify that Ivoirians with at least one Ivoirian parent, rather than two, would be allowed to stand in presidential elections.

America had elected its first proudly born-again Christian, Jimmy Carter Jerry Falwelll had founded the Moral Majority; Iran had replaced the worldly shah with Ayatollah Khomeini; Zia ul Haq was busy Islamising Pakistan; Buddhism had been formally granted the foremost place in Sri Lanka's constitution; and an anti-communist Pole had become head of the Catholic church.What caused this shift?

Last week Capco and H&F along with neighbouring Kensington and Chelsea and Transport for London, signed a deal - a Section 106 agreement - for Capco to provide £452m for what H&F calls a "community benefit package" enabling outline planning consent for the main part of the redevelopment to be formally granted.