| The act of being robed in white by the heavenly benefactor speaks of the divine patron bestowing honor upon them in their hour of shame. |
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| We looked at the issues around bestowing property on another party, when people die intestate. |
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| Flavonoids are the most powerful health bestowing constituent of tonic herbs. |
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| Befuddled by heat and sleep, she'd twist and squirm to pull on her modesty bestowing chador and headscarf. |
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| In the altarpiece Mantegna portrays the Madonna extending her hand and bestowing special favor on the marquis, who is dressed in full armor. |
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| Eliza once saved an African shaman who repaid her kindness by bestowing her with the ability to talk with critters. |
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| Isn't it grand for a name to reverberate with meaning for the parents in the sense of their bestowing a blessing on a child? |
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| Despite the fact that nature has been harsh and cruel to Afghanistan it has been generous in bestowing bounties of sorts. |
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| They organised elaborate hoaxes like the bestowing of imaginary honours, which he appears to have accepted with due solemnity. |
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| If the heart is not inspired by sincerity in bestowing alms then almsgiving becomes mere display. |
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| Sea gulls screech over head, their noiseless chatter bestowing fresh fish onto the heads of tourists who know not how to treat a gull. |
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| Upon his death in 1377, the emperor decided to honor him posthumously by bestowing on him the status of deity in charge of protecting the land. |
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| There is a ceremony for bestowing the temporary stripes on students before the six-week period of general military training. |
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| I know that the Samoan people honoured him by bestowing a matai title of Tagaloa. |
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| This is the bestowing of any benefit in order to improperly influence an action or decision. |
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| Medicine Buddha's function is to release living beings from physical and mental sickness by bestowing blessings on them. |
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| The Kennedy Center, often self-importantly, thinks of its business as bestowing the imprimatur of excellence. |
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| We annoy people more than we help them by bestowing these unsolicited favours. |
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| The Athenians, on the other hand, didn't hold their elders in such high esteem, bestowing on them only honorific powers. |
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| With time, they have immortalized their knowledge on this land by bestowing it, in their Vernacular, with a very precise toponymy. |
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| I take this as an indication of the new responsibility which you are bestowing on us in Mozambique, and which is a new challenge for us. |
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| If there is any question of the appropriateness of bestowing such recognition one should consult history. |
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| An endowment is defined as the act of bestowing a permanent provision for support. |
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| By investing 450 million euros, Government is bestowing a new cultural visage on the country. |
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| Our traditional system of rulers, leaders, or chieftaincy encouraged or for that matter survived on the bestowing of gifts, patronage and favors. |
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| In granting a Honourary Life Membership, the League is bestowing a great honour on a colleague. |
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| The Puritans drew a plain and broad line of demarcation between the impetration or purchase of salvation, and the actual application or bestowing of the same. |
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| The rivers are female divinities, food and life bestowing mothers. |
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| Even at its zenith in the mid-20th century, mink had few rivals, with only sable and the pelts of big cats bestowing anywhere near the same prestige. |
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| Yet, I tell you, that those who you so envy do not know and cannot buy with all their wealth the peace of those who hear, and who consecrate part of their lives to bestowing charity. |
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| They see their contract purporting to sell a plot of Scottish souvenir land as bestowing them the informal right to the title Laird. |
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| This is thanks to Dublin's defining characteristics of bestowing a warm friendly welcome to overseas visitors, the international literary reputation and the fastest growing economy in Europe. |
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| In 1952 the Canadian scientific community showed their great esteem for Huntsman and his work by bestowing on him the Royal Society of Canada's prestigious Flavelle Medal. |
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| It is for this reason that I chose to save my anthropological alliance with the host-society by bestowing upon it its well-deserved and affectionate attention without dispossessing my hosts of their own dynamic qualities. |
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| In response, novelist Salman Rushdie defended PEN for bestowing its Free Expression Courage award to the French magazine and criticised writers who objected to it on the grounds of alleged racism. |
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| Draft article 28 puts forward the new idea that a State member of an international organization may be held responsible for bestowing competence on it. |
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| Programs bestowing benefits on a wide variety of agricultural products have been held to be non-specific and not countervailable, if there is no evidence of major exclusion or significant favoritism for particular products. |
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| Full of hope, I traversed my makeup rite of passage with Max Factor's pancake, seen in Picturegoer bestowing perfection on film stars. |
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| Members of opposition parties have criticized the bill for bestowing sweeping powers on the police, saying it will lead to a police state. |
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| While he was still campaigning in Spain, the Senate began bestowing honours on Caesar. |
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| Recognition means much more than bestowing an impressive title. |
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| Bestowing membership of the Order of Merit is within the personal purview of the Queen, and does not require recommendation by ministers or the Prime Minister. |
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