Word: bestow
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...award is the highest honor that the German government can bestow on a foreign citizen. Although not exclusively an academic award, the award is more often than not awarded to scholars and academics...
...with the military, its backwardness as an institution will be more easily remedied. It would be better, though, if in debating the issue, Harvard administrators and students could show a bit of humility. Let us shift our focus away from the abundant gifts We of the Ivory Tower can bestow upon the unenlightened and instead fix our eyes squarely on the simple question of duty before...
...dispute people’s associations of Christopher Columbus with mass murder, oppression and the appalling conditions that still exist on reservations. And maybe it doesn’t help that we have assigned Columbus a holiday, which is basically the most vague, imprecise and symbolic honor we can bestow...
...like the "Left Behind" series) chock full of hi-tech and hollow-point bullets, but for Left Behind's apocalyptic backdrop, it substitutes more modest effects like the raising of the dead. This is a wonder that Bright is convinced that God ("He hasn't changed"), continues to bestow among communities of "people who trust and obey him." But not, Bright hopes, to him: since it would interrupt his final reunion with the Lord. He has no idea how much time he has left. He appears not to be concerned. "If I die I'm going to heaven...
...manager's personal preferences rather than how well a worker has met company standards. Gregory calls it absurd for executives to tell middle managers to "choose those whom you would like to be on a desert island with"--a popular strategy at some companies--because the manager may promptly bestow a high ranking on friends, creating grounds for discrimination complaints. Indeed, if ranking and yanking is to have lasting value, employees from the mail room on up to the executive suite must be seen to be getting what truly is coming to them...