Sentence examples for were not bestowed from inspiring English sources

Actually, the two Academy Awards given to the film "An Inconvenient Truth" were not bestowed on Mr Gore.

The sweets of his gilded youth were not bestowed on Connolly's mature career, and in the end he would be eclipsed by his school friend and rival, Blair/Orwell, who established himself, in 1937, with another book that combines ideas and autobiography in an equally intoxicating combination, The Road to Wigan Pier.

My ex-wife (yes, I call her that, affectionately) is respected as an equal in the raising of Rainer, regardless of the variety of strictures and liberties that were not bestowed on our marriage (and subsequent divorce).

Committee posts are not bestowed by voters.

Remember that talent is not bestowed — it's acquired.

Technology is not bestowed on us by benevolent gods.

(In fact, after being awarded in 2008, the prize was not bestowed again until 2011).

Power is not bestowed by the gods but seized by the ambitious.

"The thing about a sense of humour is that it's not bestowed on the good.

Sir Richard Bishop — the honorific is deserved, but was not bestowed by any known state — helped found the band Sun City Girls in the early eighties.

But the number represents a minuscule fraction of the almost 20,000 people who've petitioned the Justice Department, and the president's clemency was not bestowed without criticism.