1.   Carrying a pager once conferred status.

2.   The court concluded that it would be inconsistent with these purposes for it to confer tenure status on a teacher.

3.   To confer the status of value upon excess and extremism is to bring these things back within the pale of Decency.

4.   The militants were publicizing demands for political status to be conferred on their imprisoned leader Patricio Baquerizo whom they wanted released.

5.   At present, no state confers marriage status on same-sex relationships.

6.   Being a young Kennedy in America, even a fairly anonymous one, confers special status.

7.   Being part of it confers status.

8.   British knighthood confers status, respect and, it might be thought, the peace of mind that comes with a sense of arrival.

9.   But it confers such status that it becomes much easier for arts groups to raise the additional money needed.

10.   But not enough to confer lifetime status.