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Just as maps can confer the possession of a territory, they can likewise become a means to imagine new articulations of space.
I reject the notion that this is a superweed or that it will confer genetic resistance on other weeds and make them superweeds.
Imagine a warrior society in which only martial prowess and accomplishment confer status and reward.
This may confer an added benefit on women, whose families may be reluctant to let them study overseas.
Numerous accessorial crests and cuspules confer a reticulated aspect to the teeth.
Why oh why is the nation not more appreciative when he deigns to confer his unique insights onto our lesser minds?
Geographical position or size may confer on a country a specific role in geopolitics or international trade.
In this case, phenotypic plasticity and not genetic uniqueness confer disparate leaf morphology.
This single amino acid substitution has already been shown to confer such insensitivity in the monarch butterfly.
A second factor was the development of scientific and technical education to confer coveted academic qualifications on the captains of industry.
The ceremony in which SFU will confer the honorary degrees, will be held on the last day of the Dalai Lama's visit.
The first is that the Act is a scheme of social welfare, intended to confer benefits at the public expense on grounds of public policy.
In principle, it is patent rights that confer property rights in innovations.
They also fear it can easily be coached and thus confer benefits to wealthy applicants.
It is not, however, clear whether association of ternary complexes is necessary to confer photoactivity, for instance by a stabilization effect.
Vidocq's great achievement was to confer his magical, fairy-tale prestige on a branch of government administration.
One of the things I found is that just because you pass a law and confer a benefit doesn't mean people know it exists.
With it came authority to confer the supernally precious gift of the Holy Ghost.
To sublimate is thus to confer ideality on that someone or something through which the subject articulates his or her ineffable desire.
Red caps, badges, distinct ties and other emblems confer authority on to officially endorsed senior pupils.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Was she not worth as much honour as any man, be he who he might, could confer upon her?
Nearly three hundred of them have adopted the short ballot in charters that confer government by commission.
It is the generosity of a fluvial Robin Hood, who steals from the wealthy to confer benefactions on the poor.
We do not find fault with men for being born in positions that confer powers upon them incommensurate with their rights.
Other exquisite details about those eyes, confer on them unparallelled beauty.
She'll meet me, however, at the masked ball to-night, where we can confer together.
On chromate of cadmium, made with bichromate of potash, thallium would naturally confer an orange hue.
It is necessary that the underwritten Minister should confer with Congress on the subjects just mentioned.
He did so, and then, before coming to a final decision, he determined to confer with artemisia.
But, in this affair, grippy did not think fit to confer with any of his sons.
Cruncher did not assist at the closing sports, but had remained behind in the churchyard, to confer and condole with the undertakers.
On a pia causa it was not necessary to confer a juristic personality.
Even a scholar like porson may confer with former translators.
They were side by side, the delicate hand of the woman curled in the hand of the man, which looked as if made to confer benedictions.
We took many specimens, to the end that we might confer happiness upon certain households that we wot of.
A year ago he was elected governor, but he refused it, unless the Sala would also confer on him extraordinary powers.
It was precisely to confer on that matter with Dona Rita that Captain Blunt had been despatched from Headquarters.
Not in the wine-shop did Madame Defarge confer with these ministers, but in the shed of the wood-sawyer, erst a mender of roads.
He had only gone for a couple of days to confer with his land agent.
To this day, in the Tyrol it is still believed to confer fine vision.
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