bestowal

Examples of bestowing

bestowing

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Credence was lent their interests by the bestowing of an official name.
The example is hard to grasp because the bestowing of libertarian freedom and your free choice happen simultaneously.
Their traditional means of exercising influence over warriors by bestowing or withholding provisions diminished.
And within this, the judiciary was critical precisely in bestowing considerable legal authority on the political system.
Instead of bestowing 'diffuse support', citizens fall back on performance-based judgements of what democracy actually does for them.
Then we searched for ways to influence this arbitrary polymerization, bestowing meaning upon it.
What does the unmarking of names and bestowing of honorary titles mean in the context of this propaganda-laden system?
They create dependence without bestowing effective conditionality.
The bestowing of alms and the kind visits of ministers and missionaries to those in the second and third categories are viewed as having limited benefit in relieving distress.
In this form, like the other tzitzimime, he had the ability to heal the sick, especially children, in addition to bestowing upon newly elected officials his generative powers.
Form does not have a self-contained being separate from matter; but all its being fulfills itself in the force it exerts on matter, bestowing on it aim and direction.
In this eventuality, psychological continuity of personal identity could be immortalized in a series of cloned selves, bestowing immortality, and raising anew philosophical questions regarding personal identity.
Marking a method call as privileged means that stack inspection will stop when it is encountered in the call stack, essentially bestowing all its permissions to whoever called it.
Edson's depictions of family life offer a series of grotesque and disturbing characters who seem more intent upon inflicting pain rather than bestowing love or affection.
I must also congratulate him upon the many favours he has been bestowing upon a great many people outside his own country.
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