| And what are the words to this spell that confers eternal youth and an infinite capacity for self-renewal? |
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| Membership of the academy confers instant celebrity status, with academicians appearing on television chat shows and in popular magazines. |
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| How does she pick a male whose genetic complement confers protection against disease? |
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| This popularity not only confers celebrity status on gardeners but shows the garden owner as a person of refined taste, the minister said. |
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| If marriage confers social status and respectability, adultery confers a stigma. |
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| But, in general, the private schools are so far ahead of the state ones that to go to a private school confers a bigger leg-up than ever. |
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| Moreover, the assertion that moral agency confers special moral status is itself quite debatable. |
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| But, generally, the right uniform confers an aura of authority and legitimacy on even the most questionable of occupations. |
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| The pledge confers on the creditor a right to sell the chattel involved and to satisfy the debt from the proceeds. |
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| The secretory histology confers no prognostic significance over and above the diagnosis of meningioma. |
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| One explanation might be that duplication of this region confers a selective growth advantage. |
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| Our friend mint confers a great flavor to food even if you don't care to use it in tisanes for headaches, stress, or anxiety! |
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| He in turn confers with Geronimo, the local stage tech and they work something out with sidelights. |
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| In high order multiple pregnancies multifetal pregnancy reduction confers a clear benefit in terms of perinatal outcome. |
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| This procedure confers on the armadillo enough additional buoyancy to enable it to float. |
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| Democracy confers a stamp of legitimacy that reforms must have to be effective. |
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| Competition for college places is shrinking the advantage that legacy status confers. |
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| All shades exist also in a supercalendered version which confers a discreet but sophisticated transparency to the repositionable note. |
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| He says in public what other MPs say in private, which confers upon him a kind of immunity. |
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| The use of the loan system confers multiple benefits on the parties concerned. |
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| Statehood, even if qualified as provisional or interim, confers a degree of sovereignty. |
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| It is often assumed that participation in clinical trials confers benefit to patients. |
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| Since the law confers this public right, I deprecate any attempt artificially to restrict its scope. |
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| Then there's the party's head of political intelligence, a man with whom the prime minister confers regularly. |
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| This confers a high level of architectural plasticity on the grapevine, enabling it to respond to environmental conditions. |
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| The lower oil content of the fruit flesh confers a slightly watery, almost sweet taste not found in the other two botanical races. |
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| Government employment is coveted for the job security it offers and the prestige it confers. |
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| The mechanism by which preconditioning confers protection is not well understood. |
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| As I recall it, it confers on the court jurisdiction to deal with the admission and discipline of attorneys, solicitors and proctors. |
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| Although this probably does prolong the duration of remission, it is unclear if it confers a survival benefit. |
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| Positive deviant behaviour is an uncommon practice that confers advantage to the people who practise it compared with the rest of the community. |
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| I have yet to discover that having been born when Cal Coolidge was gearing up to run for re-election confers any eminence upon this dodderer. |
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| Our data show that inclusion of cholesterol or ergosterol in DPPC membranes confers resistance to ethanol-induced interdigitation. |
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| Marriage and domiciliation confers citizenship via registration or naturalization. |
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| In that sense, the entitlement to reimbursement or exoneration confers a priority in the further administration of the trust. |
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| Things don't get better when I ask about dessert at the bar, and the barman confers with his superiors before revealing that all they've got left is hot chocolate fudge cake. |
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| The ultimate goal of any aggressive encounter is to obtain an elevated social status that confers an advantage to an individual in obtaining a resource. |
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| But still it confers some advantages over the newer, flashier techniques that have come to dominate over the last two decades. |
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| Nevertheless, his idealistic request for wife and mistress to be present confers symbolic legitimacy on both. |
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| As their son confers with a Colby admissions counselor, they lean in conspiratorially near the door. |
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| By this very simple definition, we see that law confers rights. |
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| Is it alcohol or wine in particular that confers these benefits? |
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| McChrystal argues that service confers empathy, patience, discipline, willingness to sacrifice, and a sense of empowerment. |
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| It also shows how the district confers benefits on firms in indirect ways. |
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| But it seems the Middletons are not averse to availing of some of the perks that membership of the Firm confers. |
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| The charter normally confers a constitution with perpetual succession and the right to sue or be sued independently of the members. |
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| The Royal College of Art has several awards and prizes which it confers on its graduating students. |
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| The RSPB confers awards, including the President's Award, for volunteers who make a notable contribution to the work of the society. |
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| Early spring growth confers a number of advantages, including relative lack of competition for pollinators, and lack of deciduous shading. |
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| Infection with either variola major or variola minor confers immunity against the other. |
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| We should also protect the autonomy that such a medium confers to ordinary people as well as media magnates. |
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| Lignin confers the hydrophobic properties reflecting the fact that it is based on aromatic rings. |
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| Modisane the author also confers a face on the protagonist Bloke, deindividualized and devoiced by his name itself. |
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| It confers protection under the law to those who have lacked it. |
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| The lack of photoprotection in insects confers a special advantage to the photosensitizing compounds as substantially irresistible insecticides. |
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| Domestic partnership confers some of the same legal recognition and rights as marriages of couples who register. |
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| Filaggrin deficiency confers a paracellular barrier abnormality that reduces nflammatory thresholds to irritants and haptens. |
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| This is an effect of their duopsony market structure and the advantages it confers. |
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| It has not been proven, however, that a myrmecophytic association confers greater breeding success to birds. |
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| The Chancellor, or, if necessary, his or her deputy, confers degrees on graduates and chairs the university's General Council. |
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| For an emerald, a Colombian pedigree confers not only spectacular color but also eye-popping prices. |
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| A single positively selected West Nile viral mutation confers increased virogenesis in American crows. |
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| It confers no responsibility for government in Wales, and has no constitutional meaning. |
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| It has no connexion with the status of the borough in respect of local government and confers no powers or privileges. |
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| The Higgs mechanism postulates the existence of the Higgs field which confers mass on quarks and leptons. |
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| The Holy See also confers orders, decorations and medals, such as the orders of chivalry in the Middle Ages. |
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| Instead, each principal confers with the others as equals in the case of musical differences of opinion. |
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| Unlike the office of First Minister, the post of Deputy is not recognised in statute and confers no extra status on the holder. |
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| Infectious bursal disease virus structural protein VP2 expressed by a fowlpox virus recombinant confers protection against disease in chickens. |
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| The new analysis indicates that hormone therapy confers no greater risk of heart disease in women under 60 than placebos do. |
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| Registration with the GMC confers a number of privileges and duties. |
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| Council tax, in particular, seems incapable of dealing with routine correspondence, misapplies council tax regulations and confers upon itself powers which it does not have. |
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| The Norwegian Nobel Committee based in Oslo confers the prize for peace. |
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| In particular, the formal constitution often confers wide discretionary powers on the head of state that, in practice, are used only on the advice of the head of government. |
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| Although it is relatively uncommon, this condition is important to recognize because it is a source of dysphagia and it confers an increased risk for hypopharyngeal cancer. |
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