1.   Defoe considered it to be manufacturing which conferred this blessing on a vicinity.

2.   Before the speech, he embraced Livingston warmly, conferring his blessing on the next speaker for all to see.

3.   A blessing will be conferred at St. Barnabas Church, and a reception will be held at Madingley Hall near Cambridge.

4.   When you solve a big problem and also confer blessings on all those associated with it, you know the power of philanthropy is at work.

5.   If the assembly conferred its blessing, Afghanistan could have an interim government that would likely rule for about two years.

6.   The Russian Orthodox Church also had wanted a number of questions answered before it would confer its blessing on a burial.

7.   Wherever he went crowds pressed around, and the Dalai Lama always smiling reached out to shake hands, confer blessings.