The politicians used the trust's billions to bestow favors on corporations whose share prices needed a lift or to bolster a sagging stock market. |
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Male and female fans rushed to shake his hand and bestow congratulatory kisses. |
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They decided that they would take all of the magical power from the faeries and the other beings and bestow it upon these children. |
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This document has been designed to bestow some dignity on those who toil thanklessly in the vineyards of art. |
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They magnanimously bestow on our green spaces abundant spit, phlegm, nasal mucus, litter and noxious garbage of all kinds. |
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Oh, Lord, I thank you for this unlooked for bounty that you have seen fit to bestow on me. |
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Beyond this she was believed to be able to interpret dreams, had second sight and was able when the circumstances demanded to bestow a curse. |
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He would have slain the dragon, and slaying the dragon would bestow upon him exalted status. |
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Since then, governments have been nothing less than ingenious in creating ways to bestow largesse on the business world. |
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The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the highest civil honor our nation can bestow and we award it today to 12 outstanding individuals. |
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In the evenings, exquisite bronze replicas of the deities travel bedecked in palanquins to bestow blessings on the townsfolk. |
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She is about to cast them away, to bestow them onto some unsuspecting pedestrian far below. |
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Were I lying, then I would simply bestow upon you some vague time in the future, so as to draw things out for pretenses and falsehoods. |
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They had even been so foolish as to slaughter a mere angel who had been visiting a local church to bestow blessings on the regular attendants. |
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Not only is the self unable to bestow form from lived life, but also the objects themselves cannot receive it until they are abstracted from their lived-life utility. |
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And since he wished to completely satiate them with delight, He created a massive will to enjoy, well matched for His will to bestow pleasure. |
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And the lack of superfluous detail bestow it with both finesse and gracefulness. |
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It represents the highest honor the Canadian Forces can bestow on a civilian. |
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If you follow Him, He will certainly bestow on you pure and unsullied bliss. |
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Restaurants have a soft opening and weeks of tweaking before critics come calling to bestow stars. |
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But the way to convey China's beneficence, might and centrality in the world order was to bestow gifts more valuable than the tribute rendered. |
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But the renewed bid holds the potential to bestow certain key privileges that should not be overlooked. |
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To them, and to anyone else considering going to the baths, I offer the following scraps of advice and tidbits of wisdom, which years of experience entitle me to bestow. |
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We feign importance in giving seriousness to the circumstances, we bestow with the instant the vertigo of time. |
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And We will certainly bestow, on those who patiently persevere, their reward according to the best of their actions. |
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All of the world's children gaze at the same stars hoping to shine just as brightly and bestow their own unique cosmic halos upon humanity. |
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But the dictator refused, preferring to bestow his favours on different art movements at different times. |
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Chinese missions travelled to Naha to bestow the imperial seal on new kings. |
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The half-masting of national flags is a well-established procedure whereby countries bestow an honour and express a collective sense of sorrow. |
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Finally, just like my colleague Mr Lehne, I have another meeting and I hope you will bestow your blessing on my leaving as you did on his. |
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It is a revolution in the field and we bestow it with our innovation award. |
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In parliamentary boroughs with freeman franchises, the power to bestow the freedom was in effect a power to create electors, a consideration which clearly shaped its use. |
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No State or individual can bestow upon itself the right to deny the right of self-determination to the people of Western Sahara. |
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These include fruits, vegetables and plants that bestow a fascinating touch of colour and a mixture of fragrances and flavours to the place. |
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In 2007, CFOB launched an online campaign to bestow honorary Canadian citizenship to Burma's democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. |
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The veto rights, however, cannot be so comprehensive so as to bestow control over the company. |
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To make over, or part with as by gift, sale or other means of alienation, alienate or bestow. |
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It is not sufficient to simply provide a forum in the classroom or to bestow a mediation role on a child to resolve conflict. |
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For your brave action, I bestow on you the honor of skinning the swine. |
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Life at Court was in fact an endless pursuit of advantage, status, pensions, offices, and perquisites from those whom royal favour endowed with power to bestow them. |
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At every door in succession, a shout is raised, and the inhabitants severally come forth, and bestow their kindly greetings and donatives of money. |
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Each lasts three or four days, during which people put on their best clothes, visit, congratulate, and bestow gifts on each other. |
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Attempts by an all-seeing elite to bestow happiness on people by force always prove counter-productive. |
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When I send you one, you take it from me, generalise it at a glance, bestow it thus generalised upon society at large, and make me the second discoverer of a known theorem. |
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American weapons, troops, and largesse could never bestow legitimacy on a corrupt and incompetent Saigon regime. |
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But it did allow the Crown to bestow titles on members of the Royal Family without any such limitation. |
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The king was not more forward to bestow favours on them as they free to deal affronts to others their superiors. |
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William then tried to personally bestow the pallium to Anselm, an act connoting the church's subservience to the throne, and was again refused. |
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The papacy itself never forgot the title nor abandoned the right to bestow it. |
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In her ebullient singing and her agile bass playing, Ms. Spalding radiated a cyclone-force charisma, along with the fresh-faced self-conviction that only precocity can bestow. |
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Has ordered the building of this pool the servant of God, Yazid Commander of the Faithful, may God favour him and prolong his life and happiness and bestow upon him blessings and bounties in this world and the next. |
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The problem comes when the judiciary, as is human nature, really wishes to pass the buck, and begins to bestow on the psychologist and the mental health community more and more power. |
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The father endeavours to bestow auspiciousness upon his progeny. |
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Removable and fixed Luxor: both of these models will bestow harmony when furnishing a pedestrian area or when occasionally opening an access point. |
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Though this was, in his eyes, the highest praise one could bestow on a man, it was not sufficient for the clericals, who took advantage of its implied atheism and the uproar caused by the lecture to have Renan suspended. |
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The very decision to bestow this esteemed award on the Tribunal for its development, interpretation and implementation of international maritime law bears testimony to this. |
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Unlike Heyer's dexterity with the cut of a pelisse or the springs of a phaeton, these areas of inquiry are more than period colour added to bestow a gloss of authenticity: they contribute to the very fabric of the novel. |
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Singer tries to avoid this conclusion by appealing to the role of appraisal: it is only because we appraise another as having certain virtues and vices that we come to bestow value on him. |
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Their vote is far too precious to bestow on any of the parties on offer. |
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It is a place to be and it has a terrific record to bestow upon itself. |
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We must therefore pay close attention to the needs of local communities, instead of attempting to bestow happiness in line with someone else's ideas, however noble they may be. |
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Brewers traditionally use a bitter type of hop for the beginning of the wort-boiling to obtain the desired bitterness, then an aroma-type hop towards the end of the boiling process to bestow a hoppy aroma. |
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Each year all three programs bestow awards on individuals from the member countries who have made significant contributions to cooperative research activities. |
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This situation is addressed by the system of safeguards designed by the framers of the Constitution and, in this context, political checks help to bestow legitimacy upon the exercise of those powers. |
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Using a unilateral process to bestow responsibility on institutions expected to encourage multilateral participation is not only contradictory, it also blurs roles. |
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We learn about all the celestial personalities that bestow their particular aspect to our minds, like the Divine Minister who bestows the circuits of the Seven Adjutant Mind Spirits and the circuit of the Holy Spirit. |
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Mobilisation activities frequently organised by SANIYA GIE in the neighbourhood revealed the important role that tradition and religion bestow on women in the field of hygiene and sanitation. |
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And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits. |
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All the void time that is between the hours of work, sleep, and meat, that they be suffered to bestow every man as he liketh best himself. |
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Mr. Tradescant and his wife told me they had been long considering upon whom to bestow their closet of curiosities when they died. |
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Not to be adorned with any art but such improper ones as nature is said to bestow, as singing and poetry. |
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In 2008, he received the BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award, the highest award the British Film Academy can bestow. |
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He also set the precedent, which his imperial successors followed, of requiring the Senate to bestow various titles and honours upon him. |
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Some societies bestow status on an individual or group of people when that individual or group performs an admired or desired action. |
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But our end is Christ himself, who will graciously bestow eternal life on us if we turn to him. |
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These languages enjoy no official status under the French state and regions are not permitted to bestow any such status themselves. |
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Under the council's rules, at least two-thirds of members at a meeting must vote in favour of a proposition to bestow Aldermanship. |
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I don't think we should slow down while we're waiting for the NFL to bestow some honor upon us,'' said Commission member Bill Chadwick. |
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Pseudoanalytical arguments, on the other hand, exploit impressionable individuals and bestow legitimacy on perhaps spurious beliefs and parochial hidden agendas. |
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The figures and letters were so mingled together, that one would think the Coiner was hard put to it on what part of the money to bestow the several words of his inscription. |
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How might we see Falstaff bestow himself to-night in his true colours? |
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Here 'tis worth while to bestow a few more Reflections upon that extraordinary Piece of barbarous Cruelty against their Country under the Character of Rufinus. |
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Horatio's farewell to Hamlet offers Cal a powerful way of elegizing his beloved Andre, and McNally a benediction that he can bestow on all the AIDS dead. |
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What policy have you to bestow a benefit where it is counted an injury? |
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This is a pleasant part of my duty, it gladens my heart to be able to bestow upon the afflicted boys some of the comforts of home and former days. |
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She was welcomed home to Calderdale by thousands as she was awarded the Honorary Freewoman of the Borough, the highest accolade the council can bestow. |
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