6 sentences with “granting”

The English continued the Dutch patronage system, granting large estates to a few favoured families.

The legislators elected Rosas governor on 6 December 1829, granting him extraordinary powers, i.e. special powers.

By granting a monopoly to the East India Company, the act not only eliminated colonial merchants who would otherwise sell tea themselves, but also reduced their profits from smuggled foreign tea.

Peaceful resolution of these problems is usually resolved by granting a certain amount of autonomy to the region in conflict. In such cases, the ultimate sovereignty of the nation state is not challenged, but its presence is attenuated.

In early 1918, after consolidating their control in Petrograd and Moscow, the Bolsheviks signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany, granting Germany huge territorial concessions in exchange for peace (Germany would lose these new territories when it lost the war itself later that year).

Fifty-five delegates from the Anglo-American settlements met in 1831 to demand the suspension of customs duties, the resumption of immigration from the United States, better protection from Indian tribes, the granting of promised land titles, and the creation of an independent state of Texas separate from Coahuila.