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Whatever costs—in time, money and potentially even personal liberty—these legal actions bring may be more than offset by the halo of martyrdom conferred on the defendant.

The Americans who drafted and ratified this sentence plainly understood that it conferred citizenship upon American-born children of aliens.

The new Employment Rights Bill, which confers greater rights and protections on employees from day one, is also adding to employers' reluctance to take on new staff.

Critics have called the effort a naked power grab by Missouri conservatives, the new map upending a status quo that, according to an analysis by Princeton University’s Gerrymandering Project, does not confer any partisan advantage.

The real “root cause” of the war in Ukraine is Russia’s inability to accept that centuries of empire do not confer the right to dominate former colonies forever.