In Monsanto, however, we found merely that the Takings Clause was not violated by giving effect to the Government's announcement that application for "the right to [the] valuable Government benefit," id. at 1007 (emphasis added), of obtaining registration of an insecticide would confer upon the Government a license to use and disclose the trade secrets contained in the application.
(Relentlessly protective of his brand, Mr. Stanley seemed insulted that many believed the Hendrix song "Purple Haze" was about the Monterey LSD — far from inducing haze, he sniffed, the quality of his acid would confer upon the user preternatural clarity).
Stephen Douglas, his rival in 1858 for a Senate seat now occupied by Mr Obama, gave warning that Lincoln would confer "upon the Negro the rights and privileges of citizenship" and "cover your prairies with black settlements".
For an instance of this Court's express refusal to give the surface literal meaning to a jurisdictional provision on the ground that to do so would not be consistent with the 'sense of the thing' and would confer upon this Court a jurisdiction beyond what 'naturally and properly belongs to it,' see American Security & Trust Co. v. Commissioners of District of Columbia, 224 U.S. 491, 495, 32 S.Ct.
Both the House of Representatives and Senate are currently considering legislation that would designate India a "Special Global Partner," which would confer upon it a status enjoyed by no other country in the world.
That taste for understatement, in fact, would confer upon San Diego a certain minimalism enduring to this day.
That would be over reading the constitutional protection in a way that would actually weaken it, since it would confer upon nonreligious societies -- for-profit business corporations -- unlimited capacity to denominate something as religious and exempt it from the general laws.
This property would confer upon double-ringed aryl polyphosphates a further advantage relative to single-ringed ones.
We hypothesized that N-terminal portions of α2AP, when fused to HSA, would confer upon it the ability to be cross-linked to fibrin, and to interfere with α2AP-mediated delays in clot lysis.
That does not confer upon us freedom to ignore the knowledge we already have, or to postpone action that it appears to demand at a given time.
We took it almost for granted that science would confer continual boons and blessings upon us….
