Sentence examples for were to confer from inspiring English sources

Power estimates indicated that if the SNPs were to confer at least a two-fold increase in relative risk of migraine, the case and control groups used in this study are of sufficient size to have approximately 80% power to detect an association as statistically significant at the 0.05 level.

For instance if it were to confer superinfection resistance, through which cells prevent re-infection by a closely-related virus typically through a virus-encoded protein [ 31].

Japanese and South Korean envoys are to confer with American officials in Washington on Wednesday and Thursday.

Mr. Kerry is to confer with them on Middle East issues, including Syria, on Saturday.

If Whitehead's job is to confer a kind of eminence on the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, Tomson's job is to get things done.

One of Goebbels's less propitious schemes was to confer honorary Aryan status on Native American tribes, in the hope that they would rise up against their oppressors.

The idea, he explains, is to confer herd immunity by vaccinating as many at-risk men as possible.

A better strategy may be to confer tolerance of cellular dehydration.

The aim of synthetic biology is to confer novel functions to cells by rationally interconnecting basic genetic parts into circuits.

The role of MWNTs is to confer a high electronic conductivity and help to form a porous network.

Both sides in the current debate agree that the amendment's central purpose was to confer citizenship upon newly emancipated slaves.