Confer in a sentence as a verb

They get people addicted to the power that gems confer them.

What is it about those few amino acid changes that confers droplet transmission?

Second, buying a "blanket copyright" in Russia doesn't confer rights to sell content in other countries.

My teaching would be better if my program were big enough that I had a colleague to confer with each week, or especially each day.

The safe seeks to confer the benefits of a convertible instrument without carrying with it the baggage of debt.

Rather than ending it abruptly, ask the hiring manager if he'd be willing to confer for 15 minutes or so.

I don't think that we have a mechanistic explanation yet for the risk conferred by variants in the 9p21 locus, for example.

It will be interesting to learn about ones that do not, yet still confer meaningful cardiovascular risk.

If this is the case, a higher HDL number may confer little to no protection unless it is the product of some other natural process.

* The DOJ spent eleven days trying to meet with Levison, who stonewalled them; Levison "ignored the FBI’s repeated requests to confer".

A vaccine does not necessarily confer 100% protection against a disease.

If you ever have an interaction with a Genius, and they mention that they need to confer with a manager and put on a sour face, they're not faking it.

In many cases it is at these events that many times acquaintances become stronger relationships through just hanging out as people post conference.

The verbiage in The Bill of Rights was intended to recognize, not confer rights, and it was intended to restrain government from violating them.

If you need to confer with someone else you figure out how to make it happen, whether it's walking up and interrupting them or even if you have to schedule a meeting.

I actually said to the individual giving the poll, "None of these questions really allow me to confer how I feel about the issues that I know you're asking me about.

The Saylor Foundation is not an accredited institution and therefore cannot confer degrees.

Modern molecular breeding techniques greatly alleviates this because we can see which varieties confer resistance to a pathogen or pest, and then breed in those select traits.

Attempting not to play such games might confer the highest status of all, implying that one doesn't need to rely on status modifications to achieve social standing: one is beyond the petty concerns and judgments of others.

I'm not dissing the research, it sounds like a valuable study, but finding potentially advantageous changes in the lab and finding those changes actually confer an advantage in the wild are two wholly different things.

Ended about 15 minutes ago. Summary from memory:- The interviewers asked questions about his relationship with the press, specifically Snowdens request/condition that the media confer with the governments involved about what could and could not be published, given implications on national security.\n- Did Snowden personally look through all the material?

Moreover, we demonstrated that acquisition of only a few amino acid substitutions can confer respiratory droplet transmission to 1918-like avian influenza viruses in a ferret model, suggesting that the potential exists for a 1918- like pandemic virus to emerge at any time from the avian virus gene pool.

Alan Turing - who applied his genius to confer what can only be called immeasurable benefits on society and who used his skills to crack **** codes to help end a terrible war - is not ethically responsible for the many consequences inevitably brought into the world simply because computing power can be used to magnify the effects of human evil.

Confer definitions

verb

have a conference in order to talk something over; "We conferred about a plan of action"

See also: confabulate confab consult

verb

present; "The university conferred a degree on its most famous former student, who never graduated"; "bestow an honor on someone"

See also: bestow