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142 examples of Granting in a sentence

Eventually, Charles, the king of the Franks, negotiated peace with the Viking leader Rollo in 911, granting him a stretch of land along France’s northern coast that came to be known as Normandy.
There has been a debate in Germany about granting asylum to Edward Snowden.
Cats, classically nighttime hunters, have evolved with a reflective layer maximizing the amount of light the eye can detect, granting them excellent night vision, as well as their signature glow.
After months of strategic planning and controversy, thousands of women gathered in Washington D.C. Here, they called for a constitutional amendment granting them the right to vote.
Though full voting inclusion would take decades, in 1920, Congress ratified the 19th amendment, finally granting women the right to vote.
What made, however, this viewer at least extremely angry with the director was his granting of at least one lengthy scene each to Alexandre and Veronika in which we are clearly expected to empathize with and feel for them as if they shared a moral universe with us.
Was the granting of a divorce by a Muslim court, against the express wishes of the husband, a one time event?
Why? Superficially woman-unfriendly, but at least two females have watched it all the way through & rated it for imdb, granting an average of 8.
Perhaps "Tre Solar" is the perfect example of the majority of Swedish films - some wish-to-be-made movie is granted financial support not because it is something people want to see on the big screen, but rather because it seems like an interesting aim to some people (namely the academy granting money to support Swedish film-making).
And since when is a guy being a hunk criteria for granting a movie a positive review?
The for-pay movie critics raved about "The Age of Innocence" often granting it their highest ratings.
Popular occult author Dennis Wheatley was so pleased with Hammer's 1968 movie version of his novel The Devil Rides Out that he happily agreed to them making further adaptations of his work, even going so far as to granting the rights for nothing.
He wants to make it even smaller, and to avoid granting fundamental sovereign rights, such as control over land, air, water, and border crossings.
This includes the granting of group rights, under which Muslims are governed by their own Personal Law, distinct from the common civil code.
Spain after the Franco dictatorship stabilized itself by granting autonomy to its regions, which in many ways now behave like independent units.
The need for security clearances – and the notorious inefficiency of the process for granting new ones – severely restricts competition.
As a modernizer seeking to mobilize his entire population, Qaddafi promoted women’s social and economic inclusion by expanding education for girls, granting women the right to divorce, and appointing female judges and ministers.
The granting of the pardon power reflected concerns among the US Constitution’s framers that the criminal code would be applied in a draconian manner, producing a surfeit of punishment.
That access was intended to offset the cost to the Palestinian economy of granting preferential access to Israeli goods.
Granting special autonomy to the two most strife-ridden provinces - Aceh and Papua (Irian Jaya) - may also reduce tension between national and local military commanders.
In 1988, the US Congress adopted, and President Ronald Reagan signed, legislation granting reparations to Japanese-Americans who had been placed in internment camps during WWII.
By granting him political asylum, we can make a resounding statement that authoritarian regimes can no longer count on support within Europe’s borders.
Following the suit, the SEC suspended not only the application of its rule mandating companies to grant access to qualified shareholders, but also a rule that was making it easier for shareholders to introduce a bylaw granting them access, even though the Business Roundtable had not challenged that rule.
Moreover, India’s institutions for allocating natural resources, granting clearances, and acquiring land were overwhelmed during the period of strong growth.
A corollary hypothesis is that employers, disturbed by the extremely slow growth of productivity, especially in the past ten years, have grown leery of granting pay raises – despite the return of demand to pre-crisis proportions.
One might think there would be a revolution, but so far Maduro has been able to keep the military on the regime’s side in part by granting it license to run a massive drug-trafficking operation that exports cocaine around the world, particularly to Europe and the Middle East.
This means starting the new year by implementing reforms that require only administrative action, such as granting licenses to private banks, increasing competition by removing barriers to entry for private firms, liberalizing interest and exchange rates, and extending residency rights to migrant laborers in small cities and towns.
While Morsi has now bowed to pressure to annul a decree granting him powers without judicial oversight, it seems only yesterday that people were prepared to put their fears aside and trust that Morsi was ready to rule in the interests of all Egyptians.
If Russia can provoke America – whether by granting political asylum to the “traitor” Edward Snowden, for example, or by resisting Western diplomacy in the Middle East – it is not because it has become a great power once again, but simply because America is no longer the great power that it once was.
It must also mean developing a robust rule of law, granting people enforceable property rights, and providing citizens with institutional means to settle their disputes.
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