conferred

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.

With the bill pending, Republicans conferred behind closed doors and quietly dropped the bill.

“The voters can therefore modify or withdraw the power they conferred.”

Five years ago, long before it granted immunity from criminal prosecution to the president, the court conferred a kind of legal immunity to anyone who wanted to fiddle with the redistricting process.