Sentence examples for were given sole from inspiring English sources

Two such groups, backed by a U.S. government subsidy, were given sole rights to the route across Panama, carrying passengers, by steamship and canoe, between New York Harbor and San Francisco in five weeks.

For a time, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen were given sole credit for inventing a video-sharing service that later sold to Google for nearly $2 billion; yet a third man, Jawed Karim, also came up with YouTube.

However, to ensure that the emperor's entire safety was not entrusted to a single officer, the subordinates of the Minister of the Guards were given sole right to patrol the palaces' entrances and walls while the eunuchs guarded the emperor's private apartments and harem.

She had not been given sole control of the welfare budget, and complained that the money would be used for "political patronage".

Manchester was given sole access to almost all the president's men as well as to his widow and virtually every principal figure.

Van Basten, who had never managed a transfer budget before, was given sole custody of the club's precious pennies after ousting his mentor, Johan Cruyff.

Conversely, those candidates who have been declared winners by the Independent Election Commission, which is given sole authority over elections in the Constitution, are insistent that they have rightfully won and refuse to back down.

Joyce was given sole tenancy of a housing association flat after residing in a domestic violence unit, and subsequently was seemingly forgotten by local authorities, while her friends and family did not know where she was.

Of course, on Homeland, the Magical Mystery Tour season ends with Saul Berenson being given sole credit for transforming the strategic calculus of the Iranian government – and the achievement of a nuclear deal in Geneva.

The NRC was given sole responsibility for the licensing of all nuclear power reactors in the country through a two-step licensing process, which included both a construction and an operating license application (U.S. NRC 2012c).

From October 1948, Tucker was given sole control.