1.   The overall aim is to confer the right on professionals to have their qualifications recognised in all member states.

2.   The Schedule also confers a right of appeal on an unsuccessful applicant or objector to the sheriff.

3.   This is to treat the right as a call option which confers the right to purchase the share at an exercise price equal to the subscription price.

4.   Industrial safety legislation will normally confer a right on persons employed.

5.   A planning refusal does not of itself confer any right to compensation.

6.   This share confers rights restricting other shareholders or potential shareholders from acquiring controlling stakes in the company for a period of years or indefinitely.

7.   Although impoverished, they at least were officially recognized as distinct bands, a status conferring certain rights.

8.   But abortion-rights advocates say a bill recognizing the fetus as an independent victim of a crime confers rights that should only be bestowed on a person.

9.   It may sound old-fashioned, but the public owns the air waves and confers the right to wire the country for cable television.