| He used the mild disease cowpox to confer immunity for the potentially fatal but biochemically similar smallpox. |
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| Even better, its employees and freelancers confer more often, allowing them to work faster and more efficiently. |
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| They deliberately infect their stock with living bacteria that can confer a health benefit, known as probiotics. |
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| They do not confer upon the project manager a broad discretion, similar to that given to certifiers by conventional construction contracts. |
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| After we had waved everyone goodbye, the Gamekeeper wandered in to confer about concrete. |
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| It dramatized the anti-popular bias of the electoral college, an 18 th-century invention designed to confer more political power on slave states. |
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| Though Campbell and the messenger continued to confer, calling a groom for the horse and hurrying into the house, I heard no more. |
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| This single amino acid substitution has already been shown to confer such insensitivity in the monarch butterfly. |
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| This may confer an added benefit on women, whose families may be reluctant to let them study overseas. |
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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. |
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| However, this does not by itself confer a right on the creditors to enforce a cause of action for breach of this duty. |
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| Do the crinkles in crinkled chips actually confer any difference in taste? |
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| When electrocardiographic abnormalities occur in association with chest pain but in the absence of frank infarction, they confer prognostic significance. |
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| In cases where the Treaties confer a right of initiative on Parliament, the committee responsible may decide to draw up an own-initiative report. |
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| Diners call a day ahead to confer with the chef about food allergies and culinary likes and dislikes. |
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| Why do some computer work-stations confer eye strain and muscle fatigue? |
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| For the mind to draw a conclusion rationally from certain premises, it must draw that conclusion in virtue of apprehending the support that the premises confer upon the conclusion. |
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| Nor does it confer a right to enlist the machinery of government to enforce religious restrictions in public services. |
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| It is important to note that a security clearance does not in itself confer a right of access to secure information or areas. |
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| Despite its impressive spread, this nebari does not confer the usual sense of stability. |
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| It does not, in general, confer a right to royalties from any minerals that might be found under the ground, and it can co-exist with other rights, such as pastoral leases. |
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| He has, nevertheless, also stated that filling a position at a higher level remains a privilege that does not automatically confer a right to higher pay. |
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| The Groups are thus invited to indicate the duration necessary for tolerance to confer a right to a third party and deprive the holder of that intellectual property right of the possibility of acting against this third party. |
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| The United States welcomes the commentary's clarification that draft article 19 would not intend to confer a right of diplomatic protection to the State of nationality of a ship for non-national crew members. |
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| Since a skier does not have exclusive use of the slopes, ski lifts and chalets, the contract between the parties is a licence in the common law that does not confer a right to the credits claimed by the appellant. |
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| According to German law, bequests do not confer a right in rem. |
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| The scheme does not confer a right to such leave, but helps to fund it. |
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| A university can confer a degree upon a distinguished man because it can judge whether his degreeless condition is due to accident or not. |
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| If we confer these observations with others of the like nature, we may find cause to rectify the general opinion. |
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| Local buttons popped when Henry Kissinger visited Little Rock last month to confer with Fulbright on the Middle East oil talks. |
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| The closeness and compactness of the parts resting together doth much confer to the strength of the union. |
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| By facilitating efflux of drugs from the intracellular domain, these proteins reduce cytotoxicity and thus confer drug resistance. |
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| Moreover, control of technology, management, even crucial inputs can confer de facto control. |
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| The cross over the door and the flame before the icons are believed to confer the Risen Lord's protection on the household. |
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| The term does not confer on cohabiting parties any of the rights or obligations enjoyed by spouses or civil partners. |
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| The General Assembly may confer upon the Court of Chancery additional statutory jurisdiction. |
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| And no clause in the Constitution purports to confer such a power upon the federal courts. |
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| This may help augment national economies and confer better living standards to the citizens. |
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| After the judges confer, he earns enough points to tie him with Cedric for the lead. |
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| Both the threat and the fact of zombification confer on the bokor a potent means of social control, if he chooses to use it. |
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| At the museum, visitors are reminded that mammaldom did not confer any major advantages on its earliest practitioners. |
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| Because the Turks and Caicos is a British Overseas Territory and not an independent country, they, at one time, could not confer citizenship. |
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| The Sovereign does not confer with members privately about policy, nor attend Cabinet meetings. |
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| In the process, the representatives could also confer and send policy proposals to the king in the form of bills. |
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| Some even sought to confer the Crown on the Protestant Duke of Monmouth, the eldest of Charles's illegitimate children. |
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| In these, gluons that bind quarks together confer most of the particle mass. |
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| Complutense University was the only one in Spain authorised to confer the doctorate. |
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| However, in general, the term airport may imply or confer a certain stature upon the aviation facility that an aerodrome may not have achieved. |
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| Orders of merit which still confer privileges of knighthood are sometimes referred to as orders of knighthood. |
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| In the case of Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow, the districts had city status, although this did not confer any additional powers. |
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| Sometimes such Acts can also confer power to the National Assembly for Wales. |
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| These guests retired early to confer with their people, who, according to Bede, advised them to judge Augustine based upon the respect he displayed at their next meeting. |
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| This decision was approved of by members of the IUCN and TRAFFIC, who determined that such an uplisting was unlikely to confer a conservation benefit. |
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| A separate distinction is evident where the rights granted are insufficiently substantial to confer on the nonowner a definable interest or right in the thing. |
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| Following a Royal Charter and Act of Parliament in 1903, it became an independent university, the University of Liverpool, with the right to confer its own degrees. |
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| In 1424, Admiral Zheng He traveled to Palembang to confer an official seal and letter of appointment upon Shi Jisun, who was placed in the office of Pacification Commissioner. |
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| Despite their names, these extended master's degrees may not be described as doctoral degrees nor do they confer the right to use the title of doctor on their recipients. |
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| Mostly all autonomous government organisation confer a BTech degree and private institutes which are affiliated to regional universities confer BE degree. |
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| The Act does not confer power to the Assembly to make Assembly Measures. |
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| In 1986, the school officially became the London Business School and was incorporated by Royal Charter, which gave LBS the right to confer and grant degrees. |
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| An Assembly Measure could then confer power to the Welsh ministers to make delegated legislation, or statutory instruments as guided within the Measure. |
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| However, Chowdhury suggested that there is a limit beyond which reducing domestic taxes on production cannot confer a competitive advantage versus smuggled cigarettes. |
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