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

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • 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

  • 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

  • Missouri's Ike Skelton, who's the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, says the resolution's real aim is to confer on the war in Iraq the same kind of legitimacy the war in Afghanistan has enjoyed.

    NPR: Senate Approves $66 Billion for War Efforts

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

    FORBES: War by Committee Against Libya

  • 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

  • Meantime, the Iranian opposition virtually begs Washington not to confer any legitimacy on the regime, and the democracy demonstrators crave American support.

    WSJ: The Peoples' Revolt in Iran

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

    CNN: Grandaddy of Them All

  • But the federal government is free to decide whom to confer federal benefits on largely economic entitlements and federal issues such as immigration.

    CNN: Court, let voters decide on gay marriage

  • 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

  • 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

  • Unless we are insistent that the latter not surrender the powers we voluntarily confer on it to the Transies' unrepresentative supranational bureaucracies, however, we will inexorably find ourselves neither sovereign, secure nor free.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Assault of the 'transies'

  • The expert concluded that those activities violated the status of the organizations under 501(c)(3), in that, among other things, those activities were intended to confer more than insubstantial benefits on GOPAC, on Mr. Gingrich, and on Republican entities and candidates.

    CNN: AllPolitics - Ethics Transcript

  • There are bills pending to open up insurance to foreign competition and confer patent protection on foreign-invented pharmaceuticals, both of which are reviled by the left.

    ECONOMIST: Can the second Mrs Gandhi govern India?

  • 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

  • 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

  • Does it make sense to confer the prestige and favorable publicity of the Olympics on a regime that routinely strangles freedom of speech and religion and imprisons millions of its citizens in slave labor camps?

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: No Triumph of the Will�� for China

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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?

  • 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

  • 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

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