I have heard it said that the Lord sometimes grants to men the thing they most desire in order that they may learn how much better it would have been for them had their prayers been refused.
The mouth of the river was formerly obstructed by a bar, but piers were constructed, and the harbours greatly improved by grants from the Irish Society of London and from a loan under the River Bann Navigation Act 1879.
State of the French ministry: Du Vair's letter to Grotius: the court grants him a pension III.
Notices in official documents of pecuniarygrants to himself are rare.
Before leaving Burgos, however, she electrified her husband's adherents, by revoking all grants made by the crown since Isabella's death.
He made themgrants of cities, fortresses, and extensive lands, according to their various claims, to be held as fiefs of the crown.
Ferdinand and Isabella conceded liberal grants and immunities to Alcalá on more than one occasion.
The Grants were Virginians, like Peake, and one day when Grant was getting well enough to be on his feet and sit around in the parlor and talk, the conversation fell upon Virginia and old times.
Papa went right up to General Grants from the station and mamma and I went to the Everett House.
Peake, with his ruffled bosom and wristbands and his gold-headed cane, entered, and a deferential citizen vacated his seat beside the Grants and made the great chief take it.
Large bodies of land in that State are claimed under grants said to have been made by authority of the Spanish and Mexican Governments.
Citizens of the United States have undertaken the connection of the two oceans by means of a railroad across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, under grants of the Mexican Government to a citizen of that Republic.
He did not believe in forcing all to study Latin, nor did he believe in apportioning grants to High Schools on the basis of the number of pupils studying Latin.
The report lamented the low salaries of teachers in Common Schools and suggested that no Government grants should be given unless the managers of schools themselves raised by subscription equal amounts.
In return they were to receive certain grants from the King's College endowment.
Any funds needed by the School Board in addition to the Legislative and Municipal grantswere to be levied upon the taxable property of the city or town by the Municipal Council.
He suggested to Sir Peregrine Maitland that for grants to new settlers the school lands were worth as much to the Government as the Crown Reserves.
On the other hand, the only aid they received in support of their own school was a share of the legislative and municipal grants which together made up the school fund.
To see that the Legislative grants are faithfully and judiciously expended according to the intentions of the Legislature; that the conditions on which the appropriations have been made are in all cases duly fulfilled.
There was a rustling of parchment as the alderman unfolded the town-charters, recited the brief grants of Abbots Anselm and Ording and Hugh, and begged from the Lord Abbot a new confirmation of the liberties of the town.
Roric, a nephew of Harold, collects a piratical armament in Friesland and attacks adjacent coasts; Lothair grants Durstadt to him to secure his own lands.
The local jurisdictions of the thegns who had grants of sac and soc, or who exercised judicial functions among their free neighbors, were identical with the manorial jurisdictions of the new owners.
Manuel invades Hungary, crosses the Danube, grants a truce to Geisa, and carries a large booty to Constantinople.
Grants of land, as well as of money, were at the same time made to Hugh de Payens and his brethren, some of which were shortly afterward confirmed by King Stephen on his accession to the throne (1135).
Pope Adrian IV, by a bull, grants Ireland to the English crown.
The same compliant genius grants him the requisite size, intelligence, energy and vigilance.
Nature approves them and, to reward their trust in happiness, their generous beauty and amorous excesses, grants them a force, a brilliancy and perfumes which she never gives to those which hang back and show a fear of life.
But, where the husband's fault is sexual frailty, I say the English law which refuses Divorce on that ground alone is right, and the Scotch law which grantsit is wrong.
Oh, my angel, if God grantsus many years to come, what a perfect life I see!
To render these proceedings the more irritating to the colonies, the principal argument used in favor of their ability to pay such duties was the liberality of the grants of their assemblies during the late war.
As to the finances, they had scarce an existence, but as a matter of plunder to the managers, and of grants to insatiable and ungrateful courtiers.
The various patents and grants of the two colonies (indefinite as they seem to us now, as some granted "up to" a hundred acres to each emigrant without defining any boundaries) brought the two colonies face to face at Bound Brook.
In the early days of New England royal grants from the throne or patents from colonial councils in London were deemed necessary before settling in the wilderness.
The next clause grants to congress the power "to define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations.
The collector then grants a clearance, for the vessel, which is a certificate stating that the commander has cleared his vessel according to law.
The next clause grants to congress the power "to establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States.
Funds were thus constituted in some of the western states, to which funds congress madegrants of the public lands of the United States lying within those states.
This country is not only uninhabited, but even unknown except towards the South where several grants have been made since the Peace.
Haven't you ever heard of the Grants in Riverside?
I know where the Grants live: in that big red brick house on Green Street.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "grants" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
