They may also confer a degree of rigidity.

Raja yogas do confer a degree of power and influence but there are certain standard planetary situations that ensure a greater degree of success as a politician.

For their underground organisation, a high international profile confers a degree of protection at home.

Live organ donation confers a degree of risk, both in terms of the immediate complications of surgery and anaesthesia, and later medical consequences of organ donation.

In the days before social media, having the same name as someone famous conferred a degree of status.

Article 8 was not limited in that way and would confer a right on anyone with a reasonable expectation of privacy.

New regulatory bodies could be approved to confer the right to practise reserved activities, he says.

Franchises, which confer the right to protection from competition, are awarded to the highest bidder.

Emissions reduction currencies are not exchangeable within national cap and trade systems and as such do not confer any right to pollute.

But copyright means just that: conferring the right to copy.

Brass interjections, however, confer a sense of insecurity.

Second, languages are not just means of communication but contain our culture and history, conferring a sense of identity and rootedness on speakers.

Ham presents his narrative in the present tense, which sometimes confers a sense of immediacy, but grates over the long haul.

Despite its many pitfalls, the extended family in my old country conferred a sense of sharing and caring and the ethics of hard work.

These findings conferred a sense of historical dignity to the initiative, and transformed it into a project of reclamation for its natural public use.

I do not easily confer this title on others.

Some institutions confer the title on the class member chosen to deliver the final graduation address, regardless of the speaker's academic credentials.

The statute did not confer a title upon these local agents of federal authority, but subsequent statutes and court decisions referred to them most frequently as district attorneys.

Historically and traditionally, however, schools confer the title upon the top ranking graduate of the class, who thereby earns the honor of delivering the valedictory address.

Some schools may feature co-valedictorians in lieu of conferring the title on a single individual from among the graduating class.

It was inherent in the whole concept of state immunity that it did not confer immunity on a state in its own courts.

Boosts to local economies do not confer immunity from the law on those doing the boosting.

Getting infected with a coronavirus once doesn't necessarily confer immunity.

Article 31 conferred immunity only while he was in post.

The decree also authorises extensive censorship of news and information outlets and confers immunity of prosecution on officials who violate human rights laws in the course of their duties.

But with the estate finally conferring legitimacy by hosting this competition, it looks as if things might be on the up.

It confers legitimacy and prestige.

In the opinion of some, direct election confers legitimacy upon the president and gives the office much of its political power.

It was also the voice that a scientific paper described yesterday as perfectly designed to confer power and status.

Celebrity confers power and so it's right to hold famous people to account.

Section 124(2) conferred power 'in particular' to make provision about the circumstances in which an appeal could be made.

Military police often rolled in from barracks with newly conferred powers to check anticipated unrest.

It conferred power to obtain information and documents by compulsion for that purpose.

To address these concerns, legislation was proposed to create national preserve lands that would confer protection while allowing regulated sport hunting.

He also smoked heavily, believing wrongly that an earlier bout of tuberculosis would confer protection.

Susceptibility to disease varies between individuals and immunological mechanisms have been proposed to confer protection or susceptibility to the disease.

However, the filamentous members of some communities have vital roles in the populations continued existence, since the filamentous phenotype can confer protection against lethal environments.

They do not confer protection or need to be replaced every year.

It might be possible to transfer these sequences into the human genome to confer resistance.

Plasmids that carry several different resistance genes can confer resistance to multiple antibacterials.

Surface compressive stresses confer resistance to metal fatigue and to some forms of corrosion, since cracks will not grow in a compressive environment.

Along with the insulin-producing gene, the plasmids are also provided with a gene that confers resistance to the antibiotic tetracycline.

Isoprene also confers resistance to reactive oxygen species.

Nations and companies give prizes to show that they are more than just economic entities, that their judgments confer value, give cultural capital.

That said, a high price can confer value on something.

I think they have conflated money with superiority, and believe their wealth confers value over others, even though their behaviour can be despicable.

Justification, after all, confers value on an activity from a perspective outside its performance.