Sentences with 'afforded'
Example sentences and phrases with the word afforded and other words derived from it.
• « Napoleon was a great contrast. On the one hand, he was a man of the French Revolution. He had achieved fame only through the opportunities afforded him by the revolutionary armies; as a member of a minor family of Corsican nobility, he would never have risen to prominence in the pre-revolutionary era. »
• « Despite the fact that the dictatorship that ruled our country in 1982 prevented him from expressing certain opinions in public, Jorge Luis Borges, perhaps taking advantage of the impunity afforded him by his fame, described the South Atlantic War as the "fight of two bald men over a comb". »