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conferred government liable powers
Of all the powers conferred upon government, that of taxation is most liable to abuse.
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But the thing uttered by the speaker I strain towards is still not quite the story of what is going on; it is more reflexive than that, because as a poet I am in fact straining towards a strain, seeking repose in the stability conferred by a musically satisfying order of sounds. Seamus Heaney
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Work ethic is something that's conferred by example. Kids are much smarter than we give them credit for; it's about what they see.
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Of the powers conferred upon the General Government by the Constitution of the United States much the most important are those given to the legislative body.
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SCARIFICATION, n. A form of penance practised by the mediaeval pious. The rite was performed, sometimes with a knife, sometimes with a hot iron, but always, says Arsenius Asceticus, acceptably if the penitent spared himself no pain nor harmless disfigurement. Scarification, with other crude penances, has now been superseded by benefaction. The founding of a library or endowment of a university is said to yield to the penitent a sharper and more lasting pain than is conferred by the knife or iron, and is therefore a surer means of grace. There are, however, two grave objections to it as a penitential method: the good that it does and the taint of justice.
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Is the prestige conferred by the Man Booker prize for the book or me? I would prefer it on the book and for me to be treated ordinarily. Eleanor Catton
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Superiority to fateIs difficult to learn.'Tis not conferred by anyBut possible to earn. Emily Dickinson
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It's interesting that, given our culture has so many words that refer to women in a truly derogatory fashion, it's 'lady' - a term that has conferred social respect on our gender for over a thousand years - that has women up in arms. Sara Sheridan