Similar words: confer, preferred, conference, confer with, transferred, conference room, preferred stock, press conference. Meaning: [kən'fɜː] adj. given formally or officially.
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31. Oldfield was never conferred with boffin status, unlike his contemporary, Mr Ambient himself, Brian Eno.
32. With the first mover advantage conferred by this partnership, we expect to take the lion's share of that new business.
33. Thus good title is conferred upon the purchaser but at a date later than it should have been.
34. The Unionist leader then went immediately to see Lloyd George, with whom he had conferred before his visit to the Palace.
35. The comparatively large sums involved conferred on all these agencies a substantial power of patronage over recipient institutions.
36. So despite the enormous gains they conferred un their masters, they were often cheated of the loyal support they deserved.
37. The natural projection of the land along the Thames conferred distinct advantages on West Ham as a site for the new docks.
38. They questioned the men, wrote down their answers, conferred, made decisions.
39. That same year the rabbinical diploma was conferred on him by Rabbi Weiss, lector in Vienna.
40. Thus women who would never have considered donning this cumbersome apparel quickly saw that the chador conferred a kind of protection.
41. The biochemical protection of alcohol-destroying enzymes is not conferred equally among individuals, however.
42. Because the Mars return mission is so demanding, the benefit conferred by using Mars-derived propellants is great.
43. Some specific functions can only be conferred by an order made by the Lord Chancellor.
44. Stewart was in the partnership strictly at his invitation, and that conferred upon Stewart a junior status.
45. The House held that the discretion, being a discretion conferred by statute, must be exercised in accordance with the statutory intention.
46. It gave Becton the title of chief executive officer and conferred extraordinary powers upon him.
47. Liberties were conferred on cities, in order that feudal laws should not restrict trade and other important aspects of mercantile power.
48. It will be used to mean the exercise of power for purposes alien to those for which it was conferred.
49. Your popularity might be tarnished, but now you have conferred on your people the gift of a nation in the making.
50. The powers conferred by section 14 are new, at least in their statutory form.
51. The power conferred upon corporate managers by the business company was potentially unchecked and hence illegitimate within the framework of liberal democracy.
52. Exceptionally, however, a peerage could be conferred or devolve upon a daughter or other heir.
53. Like a personal chair, a readership is usually conferred on an individual for merit in scholarship, research and published work.
54. But the exercise of the powers conferred by the Act is subject to judicial review by the higher courts.
55. In addition to the benefits conferred by Development Zone status,(sentencedict.com) Tadchester has a good deal to offer the industrialist.
56. What evolutionary advantage has this extra effort conferred on cats? a. Cats are fiercely territorial but very socially aware creatures.
57. So it would not be surprising if it conferred its benefits on the heart by altering several things at once.
58. But whatever circumlocutions are conferred upon him, Simon would appear to be rather more obtrusive than some translators might wish.
59. The execution of a transfer on completion of sale is unquestionably within the power conferred by the power of attorney.
60. Tutilo hovered in the background, keeping himself modestly apart while his betters conferred.
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