1.   The policy of the United Kingdom is now not to confer recognition on governments as opposed to on states.

2.   As head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Gover had final responsibility for conferring federal recognition of tribes.

3.   Presumably they have reasons for not wanting legal recognition conferred on homosexual couples, but the Times had no room to mention them.

4.   China viewed it as a move to confer international recognition on the island it regards as a renegade province.

5.   By negotiating with the rebels, it would tend to confer international recognition of them, he noted.

6.   Negotiating with the rebels would tend to confer international recognition of them, he noted.