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170 examples of Bestowed in a sentence

Is the gift of songwriting taken away as easily as it seems to have been bestowed?
Finally, Zeus bestowed two gifts on Pandora.
The Emperor himself bestowed Shi Lin’s prize: an ornate hat decorated with jewel-encrusted flowers.
I have a vision for each one of you, and the vision I have for you is that when you wake up in the morning, your blood is singing at the thought of being who you are and doing what you do; that as you go through the day, you can literally sink to your knees in gratitude at the tremendous good fortune that's been bestowed on you; that as you go through the day, you become radiantly alive several times.
One can only sit in utter amazement at this mess of a film and be amused at some of the raves people have bestowed upon it.
implausible plot make up for one of the cheesiest action pictures ever bestowed in the general public.
I have bestowed my highest honour of the Film Festival on this feature.
In other words, it's an honor bestowed upon great programs by the viewers.
When the honour is instead bestowed upon James Cagney, Bugs blows his top and attempts to convince the voters to change their mind by showing a clip of one of his previous performances.
You are forever stuck in the mold that has been bestowed upon you.
Imagine hearing the major critics on the top of the roof on the skycraper sing boisterous praise for one of the five hundred 'qualified masterpieces', and Lost in Translation somehow received the honor bestowed on Sofia Coppola and company.
This gem of a TV movie has the Boris Karloff stamp all over it and together with usual atmospheric lighting and production bestowed upon a British TV thriller it makes for compelling viewing.
The fact that the Edinburgh International Film Festival bestowed their New Director award on Paul Andrew Williams is a solid enough indicator of the strengths and unique qualities of London TO BRIGHTON.
And shame on the critics who bestowed even an iota of praise on this wrongheaded and sentimental hogwash!
A second change for the better would, I hope, be less controversial: reducing the power bestowed in the UK on non-elected Special Advisers, or SPADs, who have become dominant figures in all government departments.
In the 1960s, French Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d’Estaing famously condemned the “exorbitant privilege” that the dollar’s status bestowed upon the United States.
But after the Saudis feted him with sword dances and bestowed on him the highest civilian award when he visited the Kingdom on his first trip abroad as US president, he changed his tune.
The president had not made a political decision; he had bestowed a personal favor.
Moreover, South Ossetians have Russian nationality only because Russia recently bestowed it on them unilaterally.
Care for creation is a fundamental part of the Islamic message, the Declaration notes, and humans are currently responsible for squandering gifts bestowed by Allah.
The second requires that the engagement be carefully calibrated, with not even a semblance of honor or recognition bestowed on those serving an administration that so grossly violates liberal democratic norms.
In doing so, he bestowed legitimacy on a terrorist organization that enforces medieval practices in the areas under its control.
A short-term stimulus would not have bestowed the largest benefits upon the most affluent, whose spending is less sensitive to taxes.
All of these air pollutants sweep into the capital city, with vehicular emissions adding to the dust that Mother Nature has already bestowed on Delhi in abundance.
This confidence lay in two legal gifts he had bestowed upon himself - an amnesty for his crimes and immunity as a senator-for-life.
Like a happy and secure childhood, Confucian civilization bestowed upon its practitioners the self-confidence to meet the challenge of the West.
Corporate status enabled universities to raise their own institutionally earmarked funds, which were bestowed on individuals who were "incorporated" on a non-hereditary basis, through examination or election.
Compare, for example, the discipline that international banks and the IMF were able to impose on Indonesia and South Korea in 1998, with the relative freedom of the US – bestowed by denomination of American debt in dollars – to increase government spending in response to the 2008 financial crisis.
At that time, the United states was just beginning to understand that their power and wealth bestowed upon them a major international responsibility.
Although Erdogan likes to call Turkey a natural bridge between East and West, Europe is waiting for Turkey to assume the function that geography has bestowed upon it.
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