• An honourable man, he is doubtless itching for the legitimacy that a probable electoral victory will confer on him.

    ECONOMIST: Can the elections be held on time?

  • "It's impossible to ignore, " Arora says, noting that he's frequently back in the U.S. to confer on the next strategic move.

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  • The size of his win is expected to confer on Morales a mandate to radically change one of South America's poorest countries.

    NPR: Bolivian President Elect Makes Bold Claims on Coca

  • Some European variants have done better, but the benefits they confer on their participants may come at the expense of other job-seekers.

    ECONOMIST: The crunch may entrench unemployment

  • First of all, think about the benefit you can confer on the employer, advises Jane Praeger, a media coach who heads Ovid Inc.

    FORBES: How To Craft A Job Search Elevator Pitch

  • The goal of professional management education is not merely to confer on its students an advanced degree and the prospects of a better job--as valuable as those things are.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Some Muslim Britons contract an Islamic marriage (but not a civil one) and then fail to confer on the bride the marriage settlement that would be obligatory in say, Pakistan.

    ECONOMIST: Sharia in the West

  • Heller became the plaintiff in the test case, and in 2008 the Supreme Court ruled in his favor, holding that the Second Amendment does confer on individuals the right to bear arms.

    NEWYORKER: Partners

  • These people are not only rich but also exceptionally clever, because America has become expert at sending its brightest to the same elite universities, where they intermarry and confer on their offspring not just wealth but also a cognitive advantage that gives this class terrific staying power.

    ECONOMIST: Lexington

  • There is nothing like the 192-member United Nations to confer legitimacy on the use of force.

    FORBES: War by Committee Against Libya

  • The American Friends Service Committee sees that as a reasonable desire, consistent with a belief that all work should confer dignity on workers, employers, and consumers.

    CNN: May Day is for immigrants, too

  • As Justice John Paul Stevens, writing for the minority in Citizens United, demonstrated, the Framers did not intend for the First Amendment to confer protections on businesses beyond freedom of the press.

    WSJ: Ralph Nader and Robert Weissman: The Case Against Corporate Speech

  • On Saturday the university will confer similar awards on playwright Trevor Griffiths, historian Bettany Hughes, and law commissioner Frances Patterson.

    BBC: Doreen Lawrence

  • Contrary to popular belief, marriage to a U.S. citizen does not automatically confer legal status on unauthorized immigrants.

    CNN: Do we want an America that wrecks families?

  • Now, in an era of constant polling and the permanent campaign, elections no longer confer much authority on the victor.

    ECONOMIST: Presidential nominations

  • Global Sources hopes to confer those benefits on smaller customers as well.

    CNN: Grandaddy of Them All

  • The festival is an important auction market for purebred camels, and as well as commanding high prices, award-winning specimens can confer immense prestige on their owners.

    CNN: Head turners of the desert: A camel beauty pageant in the UAE

  • But problems also arise when it is governments that are relatively strong, and so able to confer special status on some pressure groups and withhold it from others.

    ECONOMIST: POLITICS BRIEF

  • If the FDIC investigation finds that the bank executives engaged in fraud in a misguided attempt to sustain the bank as a going concern, their activities, albeit wrongful, might still be judged within the scope of their employment because they did, at least for a time, confer a benefit on the bank.

    FORBES: FDIC Makes A Case Against Auditors For Bank Failures

  • The level of consolidation that would confer significant market power on the largest mills still seems a long way off.

    ECONOMIST: Steelmakers on a roll, until the next glut | The

  • While broad majorities of the court have voted to affirm protections for such long-recognized forms of expression as picketing, movies and now videogames, conservatives have outvoted liberals to confer First Amendment rights on business and void campaign-finance regulations that advocates say promote fairer elections.

    WSJ: High Court's Term Shows Kennedy's Sway

  • On Saturday, Lisburn City Council is to meet in special session to confer the freedom of the city on the RIR and the regiment will then parade through the city.

    BBC: RIR soldiers

  • The boson helps confer the property of mass on all other particles through their interaction with something called the Higgs field.

    BBC: Higgs boson 'hints' also seen by US lab

  • It is a great privilege to be here today as we confer the Congressional Gold Medal on a man who's spent his life breaking barriers and bridging divides across this country -- Senator Edward Brooke.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Honors Senator Edward William Brooke

  • But the instruments confer a stamp of scientific precision on a judgment that psychologists have proved ill-equipped to make.

    NEWYORKER: The Science of Sex Abuse

  • Art is not merely, or even importantly, a stimulus, processed by evolved brains on the lookout for rewards that will confer evolutionary advantage.

    WSJ: Book Review: The Age of Insight

  • In addition, Nelson notes, Myriad has products on the market, including several diagnostic tests for genes that confer susceptibility to breast, prostate and colon cancers, and it sells these tests through a collaboration with Burlington, N.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • With advances in measuring physical activity levels, we have discovered, to our horror, that 95% of the UK population are not even doing the minimum recommended amounts of physical activity to confer even basic health benefits (30 minutes' moderate to vigorous physical activity on at least five days a week - or the equivalent).

    BBC: Laziness will send us to an early grave

  • Worldwide, it is the largest institution dedicated to education on these issues and is the only institute within the United Nations system accredited to confer master's degrees (MSc).

    UNESCO: logo

  • Hospitals also are cutting back on prescribing several medications, including antibiotics and anti-reflux drugs, for infants because studies show they confer few benefits and increase risk of adverse reactions.

    WSJ: How Hospitals Save More Lives and Reduce Infections in Premature Babies

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