#confer

Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation was conferred upon this Government. ↗

— Robert Toombs

#besides #conferred #contracted #debt #government

And at ten, or whatever time, in the morning we had the press conference, what we knew is there had been an incident at Three Mile Island, that it was shut down, that there was water that had escaped but it was contained. ↗

— William Scranton

#conference #contained #down #escaped #had

Another very strong image from the first day was giving my initial press conference in the morning - going down and finding out that everything I had said, the essence of what I had said, was wrong. ↗

— William Scranton

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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously. ↗

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#conferred #dies #lived #long #man

To photograph is to confer importance. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#importance #photograph

It's not like I just have to go to Washington and go to the White House everyday, and go to the same press conference at 10 in the morning and then be briefed at 4 in the afternoon, and then get a story on at 6. ↗

— Tabitha Soren

#briefed #conference #everyday #get #go

Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the field. ↗

— Jane Haddam

#audience #conferences #conventions #field #fights

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Any form of a winning record in the conference is an accomplishment. ↗

— Jordan Knight

#any #conference #form #record #winning

He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship. ↗

— Kenneth Baker

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