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The university is conferring an honorary degree on Nelson Mandela at this year's graduation ceremonies.
After conferring with his lawyer, the defendant decided to plead guilty to a lesser charge.
The trustees of such a fund as is here proposed should not regard themselves as patrons conferring a favor on those to whom grants are made, but as men seeking for the means of securing large scientific returns for the money entrusted to them.
On the one hand, it is obviously desirable that the time and opportunities of the university should not be wasted in conferring such elementary instruction as can be obtained elsewhere; while, on the other hand, it is no less desirable that the higher instruction of the university should be made accessible to every one who can take advantage of it, although he may not have been able to go through any very extended course of education.
And this question is inseparably connected with another, namely, the conferring of degrees.
Mischievous bumblebees, thrusting their long tongues between the sepals and petals of these unopened flowers, steal nectar without conferring any favor in return.
'Father Romuald and I were only now conferring as to paying the Duke a visit on our way.
The Marquess of Suffolk requested Sir Patrick to convey to young Douglas a free offer of fitting him out for the encounter, with armour and horse if needful, and even of conferring knighthood on him, so that he might take his place on equal terms in the lists.
" Then he took her to another place and showed her where the liquor stood to ferment; how it was cooled, how it was passed from one vat to another, how it was stored and kept in vats, dwelling perpetually on the magnitude of the business, and the irony of fortune in conferring this great gift upon a girl.
" His lordship spoke as if conferring an immense advantage upon an imaginary opponent.
271 CHAPTER XVII MARINE METEOROLOGY That it behooves a sailor to be weather-wise has always been admitted, but there was a time, almost within the memory of men now living, when neither seamen nor landsmen had the remotest conception of the benefits that a systematic study of the meteorology of the sea was capable of conferring upon the maritime world.
No police regulation was of universal application; we have [89]seen how in Anglo-Saxon times the king's peace afforded especial protection to certain classes, and how various limitations were imposed according to locality and according to season; subsequently charters were freely given to monasteries, guilds, boroughs and cities, carrying rights and conferring favours that were not shared by the nation at large.
It was advanced that the influence exerted by the Ministry of the day over the magistracy was already excessive, and that the real object of the bill was to still further increase this influence, by adding the power of conferring salaries to that of making appointments.
" He makes so many of these references to the law-stationer in the course of a day or two that Allan, after conferring with Mr.
" Sped under a Vatican escort to DaVinci, our heroes are dumped unceremoniously at curbside, but only after confessing that-if they were Catholic-they would accept Mary as an entirely human-although stupendously blessed-mediator, the holy quickening of her womb not to be taken as conferring any ultra-human status upon her.
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