How To Use Ranting In A Sentence

I don't think you're playing devil's advocate (a word every/filmer seems to want use) simply by making entirely senseless comparisons between films like Transformers and There Will Be Blood, and ranting on with points of view that even someone in defense of Transformers would never use. Things I Noticed While Watching 20 Minutes of JJ Abrams’ Star Trek | /Film
The U.S. attorney in the district can impanel a grand jury if they feel that there is evidence warranting a criminal investigation.
Planners are committed to developing the city's brownfield sites before granting permission to build on the rural outskirts.
Most bothersome is during this week of Kanye, Serena and Wilson with virtually every news site asking are we rude/have we lost our civility, is that people from the stature of James Carville to presumably educated people writing comments, are ranting, raving and name calling. Carville takes aim at latest tell-all on Bush
The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All, therefore, that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt. Seneca

She was still ranting about the unfairness of it all.
In return for granting subsidies, Parliament demanded ever new powers from the monarchy.
Granting Salvation to some and denying it to others regardless of merit is unjust. Augustine vs. Pelagius Part Two - Grace, Salvation, and Redemption | Heretical Ideas Magazine
This would bring it within the urban rateable area and could assist in the granting of Class 1 Urban status to the town.
Whether or not there is an increase in that region remains to be seen, but Rideout said caplin stocks offshore and in the Gulf are, essentially, unrelated in terms of granting quotas. Archive 2006-02-01
The decision has been hailed by union leaders as a landmark in granting constitutional rights for trade union activity in a number of other employment sectors.
The Association, whose anniversary we celebrate to-night, was founded seven years ago, for the purpose of granting permanent pensions to such of the corps dramatique as had retired from the stage, either from a decline in their years or a decay of their powers. Speeches: Literary and Social
Most of this book was written in a sabbatical semester in the autumn of 2001, and I would like to thank my Head of Department, Professor Noel Thompson, for granting me this leave.
This is a cellphone message left by the guy where he starts ranting and raving.
She'd be forgiven for ranting even a bit more about voter apathy, but she wisely takes the high road in describing the disenfranchised young women who reject much of the rhetoric of their feminist foremothers.
William Jefferson, known to be less than scrupulous (the FBI found $90,000 in cash in his freezer, and the intimation is that he is connected to some shady individuals from South America), re-elected to Congress in a landslide, primarily due the rantings of the autocratic sheriff of Jefferson Parish. Think Progress » Chertoff Learned of Levee Failure 36 Hours After Mayor Nagin?
So, we would fight all the way to church, ranting and raving, screaming and yelling.
It has decriminalized medical marijuana, legalized assisted suicide and earlier this year, began granting marriage licenses to same-sex couples in the Portland area.
For, granting the existence of a higher standard, the first question that we must ask about a cultural tradition is, ‘Is it conformable to our standard?’
Think what ranting about a grubby bathroom could get you. Times, Sunday Times
Wessely also gives the example of the rise in awareness of panic disorder in the US coinciding with the granting of a licence for the drug alprazolam to be used to treat the condition.
Suddenly, Cy stopped ranting and faced Peter once more, with a faint glimmer of recognition in his sightless eyes that were now filled with tears running down his leathery cheek.
The monthly charge goes toward whatever music the label delivers that month rather than granting all-you-can-eat access like Spotify or Netflix. News
Every time you turn on the television, some Republican is ranting like the kind of barstool know-it-all who gives booze a bad name. Salon
He only began his writings at the age of 52 and his ranting style of delivery, often on street corners to a puzzled audience, marked him out for a lifetime of ridicule and poverty.
I read, this morning, the 46th chapter of Isaiah, and, from the fact of this being new years day, my mind has been carried to the goodness of God to usward, in granting all the blessings we enjoy: -- His infinite greatness, wisdom and mercy. A Biographical Sketch of the Life and Character of Joseph Charless In a Series of Letters to his Grandchildren
It would probably have led on to granting Catholics exemption from tithes and the authority of Anglican courts.
This was one of the great first plays of all time - a ranting, chewed up, bitter ding-dong of a play.
To save his dynasty from extinction, Grand Duke Karl needed to find a way to preserve the Z?hringen line. Granting succession rights to his half-uncles seemed the ideal solution.
The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All, therefore, that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt. Seneca
Over the marble fireplace there were the official framed documents granting the college its coat of arms. Seminary Boy
When Buck and Ratso go to another greasy spoon, a crazy is ranting in the background.
He was ranting and slammed down the phone. Times, Sunday Times
It's a minute and a half -- a minute and a half of pure crazy -- a minute and a half of a self-obsessed, angry, narcissistic, celebutard ranting about a member of the Black Eyed Peas. Perez Hilton's Sobbing Video Insanity Condensed To One Crazy Minute (NSFW)
In 1926 it was the National Progressives that agreed to support the Liberals provided that they enacted legislation granting old age security pensions for seniors.
Our decision to defer the review of exemptive applications for derivatives-based ETFs reflects concerns about whether granting exemptive relief for those funds would be consistent with required regulatory standards in light of those concerns. The 15 Most Outrageous ETFs
Planners are committed to developing the city's brownfield sites before granting permission to build on the rural outskirts.
In between ranting and raving I watch football.
The guy put his head down and stormed on, his vicious racist rantings now dimmed to a mutter, his hate-filled words completely stripped of any power.
The city is behind the project, granting permission to block off Congress between Herbert and Fifth avenues.
Last Friday, the IMF ended a three-year freeze on foreign aid by granting Kenya a $252.8 million loan.
And the obnoxious rantings of certain techno-utopians border on the asinine when they don't cross it. Journalism: product v process (Blog for Democracy)
And, unlike other marches, this one will also propose solutions, rather than simply ranting against the war machine.
Over the marble fireplace there were the official framed documents granting the college its coat of arms. Seminary Boy
He was ranting at the Porto manager, refusing to shake hands and shouting with that hideous gobby bit of chewing gum bobbling all over my nice widescreen.
Thus the kings in granting a duchy or countship as an apanage to their brothers or sons used the phrase _in comitatum et baroniam_. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
Or perhaps those who would benefit most from Imran Khan's wise suggestions are the timid little satrap/'allies' of NATO who would sooner waste their wealth, consign their sons to foreign graves and provoke generations of revenge attacks than tell a ranting yankee general at the NATO meetings to depart and leave the rest of us and themalone. Pakistan will implode if the US does not leave Afghanistan
The only restrictions placed on officers granting furloughs limited leaves to no more than thirty days for 5 percent of the unit at one time.
RantingTommy says: who is this tina fey impersonator again and why is she saying such stupid things? Think Progress » Palin blames ‘Gore-gate’ for ‘this snake oil science stuff.’
Will he agree to investigate whether the granting of 200,000 work permits a year - that is a fivefold increase on last year - is in any way detrimental to the economically inactive in the UK?
Blackburn magistrates heard that David Ainsworth was ranting and raving during the assault, calling his former wife a ‘slag, a whore and a slut’.
Wow, the little fella is still ranting about corpseman, hey who else was ranting about that? dr. runt?????? Think Progress » As Polls Show Increasing Support For Health Care Reform, Cavuto Claims ‘Polls Are Increasingly Looking Worse’
NBC’s airing of Cho Seung-Hui’s ranting thanatopsis isn't anything media wouldn't have run with 200 years ago. What Boundaries of Openness?
Salinger concludes that this was likely because “magistrates did not place drunkenness high on their list of offenses warranting prosecution.” A Renegade History of the United States
The government is currently granting no operating licences to foreign firms.
Mr. Chan holds a will granting Nina's entire estate to him. burned for good luck but not as a testamentary instrument - after amending earlier pleadings that Nina lacked capacity and Mr. Chan used Telegraph, the flamboyant Nina (dubbed in Hong Kong as "Little Sweetie" after a Japanese cartoon character because she favoured pigtails, colorful micro-miniskirts, bobbysocks and white PVC macs), had resisted attempts to have her late husband declared dead. Toronto Estate Law Blog
The slim brown door echoes the ranting dictator's infamous toothbrush moustache. The Sun
In theory it is possible for competent adults to appoint a proxy to act on their behalf by granting them a power of attorney.
He stood there for about twenty minutes ranting and raving about the colour of the new paint.
In 1987, the government passed a death sentence on the river by granting permission for the new dam.
Other experts are concerned that the granting of such discretionary powers would foster corruption. Times, Sunday Times
In 1968 she made a speech in Westminster at the fiftieth anniversary celebrations of the granting of votes to women.
Davies fell victim to his old tropes: sexualising the doctor by having him kiss yet another female companion, fetishising him by having Lee Evans as an eccentric boffin kneel at his feet and declare he loved him, and granting him another soliloquy about his cosmic solitariness. Doctor Who Smattering of Spoilers
Altering the logs was a crime warranting a grounding at home and one leading to detention and mandatory group therapy at school. 365 tomorrows » 2010 » February : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
Other experts are concerned that the granting of such discretionary powers would foster corruption. Times, Sunday Times
In the past, the family has opposed granting amnesty, demanding that offenders be prosecuted instead.
Granting leave to wear civilian clothes would have pre-empted the hunger strikes.
The major features include granting longterm tenurial arrangements to qualified applicants, technical and modest material assistance and institution building. aimed at developing capability for communitybased resource management. Chapter 4
Which means less ranting and raving when you get home. The Sun
The High Court said while granting maintenance, some formula or yardstick must be adopted and it must not be whimsical or arbitrary.
'If you sit down and listen in any moderately lucid state of mind the impression you have is of an old man muttering and ranting on in the aural foreground, while some young lads, engaged on some completely unrelated project, footle around with the controls on a mixing desk in the next room' FallNet - the punk foot of nose
The boss called the foreman on the carpet for granting sick leave to a worker without first asking for permission.
Berserker Stance: Now increases critical strike chance by 3% instead of granting 10% melee haste.
Planners are committed to developing the city's brownfield sites before granting permission to build on the rural outskirts.
His comments to the opposition are more like the delirious rantings of a homicidal maniac.
He backed a provision that would allow judges to delay granting a divorce decree in some cases.
One of the primary criteria in granting a visitor visa is proving the applicant intends to return to Mexico and does not intend to immigrate. Visa for wife
All the parties of the Scottish parliament should be fighting against the rantings of the ill-informed and ignorant.
The U.S. government is to stop using the term "illegal enemy combatants," a label contrived by the Bush administration to justify detaining people indefinitely without ever bringing them before a court or even granting them prisoner-of-war status. Embassy
The University will provide accurate and timely acquittances to granting bodies in accordance with the terms and conditions specified in each grant contract or agreement.
She was ranting and raving and stamping her feet like a child.
In 2003 and 2004, thousands of citizens trouped to hearings where, all but uncontested, they opposed federal rules granting greater concentration of media ownership that a pro-corporate majority at the Federal Communications Commission went on to rubber stamp. Hans Johnson: Blocked Content Puts Focus on Corporate Power
Granting that prudential concerns will vary from one person to another, one cannot imagine what a modern society would look like if the generality of persons did not have substantial prudential concerns.
The countess, on her side, interpleaded an appeal against the granting of letters of administration without liability, and did all in her power to bring back the case to the Tournelle. Celebrated Crimes (Complete)
Nothing would have led more swiftly to the country's dismemberment than a policy of discrimination in the granting of privileges between one power and another.
Regulators should also ban granting higher commissions to brokers selling the firm's own funds, which often have lower returns.
He then concluded that the balance of convenience favours granting the injunctive relief.
I can see this "granting" business has worked somewhat in lubricating this somewhat incestuous exercise of reviewing one's own work. Ouroboros?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
But, if so, ‘tis a strong reason against granting the rule, for then the Crown may enforce its demands in a visitatorial way.
Mike Leavitt has signed into law a bill banning public schools from granting recognition or access to gay or lesbian student groups.
The enforcement of price-fixing intensified as a result of granting leniency to companies that blew the whistle on their competitors. Times, Sunday Times
The merchant guilds they formed controlled markets, weights and measures, and tolls, and negotiated charters granting their towns borough status.
Today, almost a century later, the Futurist manifestos read like the rantings of poetic speed freaks.
These ideas had a wide influence on the creation of the Franc Germinal (17 Germinal an XI, 7 April 1803) and on the law granting the Banque de France its monopoly on issuing banknotes.
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People were saying he'd come in and be ranting and raving, but he's not like that.
Does it have useful incentive effects, comparable to the effect of granting property rights to land to create the incentive to cultivate the land?
The game still looked in the balance and Rhodes continued to urge Kendal on with his constant ranting from the back.
It has no plans to suspend the granting of stock options as part of its cost-cutting programme.
Granting _alleyn_ to be rightly put for alone, no ancient writer, I apprehend, ever used such a phrase as this; any more than we should now say -- _my son alone_ for _my only son_. The Rowley Poems
Think what ranting about a grubby bathroom could get you. Times, Sunday Times
I'M GETTING SICK AND TIRED of the right wing nut jobs and their childish behavior, their ranting & raving and threats to congressman in townhall meetings ... and their scare tactics with the whole "just you wait til 2010" crap ... give me a break! the way these racists ignorant idiots are acting, there's no way we're going to allow them to continue holding seats in office!!! Republicans react to jobless report
The draft law also gives the government the right to decree ‘labor emergencies,’ granting it the right to impose involuntary retirement and layoff of public employees.
To suggest they have all been harmed, at least to a degree warranting criminal punishable, is to expand the definition of harm to render it meaningless, not mention creating a world of misdemeanants. The Volokh Conspiracy » A Crime to Repeatedly Insult a Minor
He preached a crusade against John Asen of Bulgaria, granting extensive privileges to King Bela IV of Hungary to get him to make war on the Bulgars, but the Mongols were arriving and the Hungarians had to fight them instead.
When someone accidentally bumps him on the street, his ranting makes bystanders scurry away.
These displays of generosity were used by princes to bind their subjects to themselves, promoting a culture based on the granting of gifts in exchange for loyalty and service.
But I got into work today to find a certain colleague ranting and raving about it.
We should have provision for granting supervised access to the same resources as staff.
Without doubt the ranting fustian of men vying for a woman makes the threat seem laughable.
He backed a provision that would allow judges to delay granting a divorce decree in some cases.
He's granting interviews back to back to the Euro press.
The witness said he was not aware of any hint of anything improper or any impropriety in the granting of the licence.
She says the international community will not be bludgeoned into granting them refugee status.
There's no emotion or umbrage here or even shit-picking attached to telling you that when I read "harangue" I assume "bombastic ranting," which is not my connotation, but a standard and prevailing definition of the word "harangue. Readercon 16: Day 1
Despite Cookie's ranting about the devilry of the Raleighs, I was still sure that there was a method behind their seemingly random cruelty.
The urge to laugh is almost overwhelming as the enticing conspiracy theory degenerates into ranting about reptiles and an alien race plotting to take over the world.
On no account is he an aloof, lofty person, but instead he eats and drinks with the Minjung, sometimes asking favours from them or vice versa, granting their requests.
After Denver district Judge Jeff Bayless 'ruling granting an injunction against Colorado's Amendment 2 going into effect until a ruling on its constitutionality can be determined by the courts, you will not be surprised to find that scurrile material attacking Gays is once again a cottage industry in Colorado. Soapbox Issue #2 by Chad Skelton
Though the corrupt city councilors may get away from the penalty of the law in granting the amnesty, they cannot escape the punishment of the voters in the future.
I did buy a few things I needed and wanted, including the flat iron I've been ranting about to Amanda.
Pruning, spraying for pests, tending the trellises, overcropping if there were too many buds, and general fretting over the state of the grapes and the date to harvest were all reasons warranting a visit. The Merlot Murders
The group discussion had ceased and the whacko had finished his ranting monologue on all the multiple talents of the doctor.
Negotiations to clear the way for him to contest the elections included the granting of bail in three cases against him. Times, Sunday Times
We will find that out without people ranting and raving or big long speeches. Times, Sunday Times
radio, afraid that she might accidently come upon that ranting, hysterical voice which had blighted their lives. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
However, granting him the moral and legal right to mulct his fellows increases his moral degradation instead of ending it, for the beneficiary is now further removed from the production line than ever.
The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All, therefore, that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt. Seneca
This fifth game has Layton and Luke investigating the mystery of the title artifact in Casino City, which seems to have been created by the wish-granting mask. DCEmu Forums:: The Homebrew & Gaming Network :: PSP Dreamcast Nintendo DS Wii GP2X Xbox 360 GBA Gamecube PS2 Apple iPhone PS3 Wiz Pandora Forums - 11,17,23,27,35,36,37,38,51,78,82,83,85,100,105,110,112,113,122,125,128,135,159,176,237,240,241,242,243,2
I am sure that if you signed up to a mailing list for any other non-political interest group you would soon find it dominated by the rantings of deranged nutters and/or other obsessives.
Then the court must decide whether the unjust enrichment should be compensated through a monetary award or through the granting of a proprietary interest.
RantingTommy Says: aww, "independent" must be stinging from the spanking he got once the FACTS came out no wonder the right wingers fear facts so much. facts always kick their a$$ shoeless Chilopoda Says: independent989 Says: Think Progress
The public are entitled to play a meaningful role within the planning system and granting ‘third-party rights of appeal’ is fundamental to achieving this.
curing" it by mental control (even granting that this is the case), we burn the candle at both ends -- for the reason that we devitalize the body by allowing it to become diseased and then waste more energy in the mental effort to get well again! The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal
So far as the security of the state was concerned, two principles were stated to govern the granting of warrants.
People reading books and not surfing the net or ranting on phones don't make them money. The Sun
A no vote by Chile could kill plans for granting it the same access to the US market that Canada and Mexico now enjoy.
Taylor continues ranting a bit longer, winding a strand of bleach-blond hair around her pinkie.
The goals in immigration policies are achieved by granting or denying visas.
However, ranting, screaming and cussing is going to do our cause nothing but harm. See Us in the Funny Pages
The shtick worked brilliantly, granting Farrell his edge but softening it too.
He was then standing in the street ranting and raving and my dad asked him to move out the way, and the guy said he would be back.
The CHMP, on the basis of quality, safety and efficacy data submitted, considers that there is a favourable benefit to risk balance for Scintimun for scintigraphic imaging, in conjunction with other appropriate imaging modalities, for determining the location of inflammation/infection in peripheral bone in adults with suspected osteomyelitis and therefore recommends the granting of the marketing authorisation. Undefined
The granting of the charter itself featured prominently with artefacts from medieval life, including a quiver of arrows and the Earl of Derby's execution is marked with a replica scaffold and display featuring lilies.
I hope they either get back together or he resumes his normal obnoxious and gobby rantings soon.
Frankenstein lapsed into a delirious fever for several months, ranting and raving about killing the monster.
Stories have been repeatedly told about ranting, raving Baptist preachers who only preach sermons on hell and damnation.
The appellant had not been required to surrender to the Central Criminal Court and the question of granting bail did not arise.
He shunted firmly into the sidings the prospect of granting long-term rights to run certain services, seeking to speed the pace of improvement.
What I can say is that I went into the studio with James and Ewan from the band the other week to lay down my ranting recitations of Sonnets For Orpheus and Still Lives, the plan being for them to take those tracks away and add in some ambience and atmosphere. Duncan's Patent Remedy
At times it sounds like the ranting and raving of a somewhat unhinged mind, but then it takes a certain amount of guts to let people into your mind, into what seems to be a morass of obsessive paranoia.
Witnesses said that the women filmed themselves ranting before launching themselves at their victim. Times, Sunday Times
These words, taken from a special patent of 1644 granting Lady Alice the hollow title of duchess, effectively recognised Robert Dudley's legitimate birth seventy years after the fact.
Indeed, those parents of an age to have had to put up with the abuse, ranting, demonstrating, and phony political idealism of the sixties will at last be getting some kind of return from their children.
The most recent development in academic programs has been the initiation of the PhD-granting program in Rehabilitation Sciences.
Government policy of granting very small claims gave everyone a chance, but also led to rapid exhaustion of claims and large rushes to new fields.
But granting all this, you feel that these foreign investors are too numerous, that they have too much capital, that they control too much of your business, that they manage these enterprises primarily in their own interest rather than in the Canadian interest; and in short, that you may be-as I have said - "engulfed". A View From the North
The Chancellor will also announce a set of more generous tax breaks for companies granting share options.
There was no occasion for ranting.
The council were prepared to reconsider granting him a permit at a later date.
Over the marble fireplace there were the official framed documents granting the college its coat of arms. Seminary Boy
Despite all the ranting, the rodomontade and the rhubarb Howard's excellent adventure will end in ignominy - although, naturally, he will insist that he stuck by his allies to the last.
When Buck and Ratso go to another greasy spoon, a crazy is ranting in the background.
In 1958 the Civil Service led the way towards equality by granting equal pay.
And it's funny they are right – here you Palin haters are ranting and raving about someone you say is nothing but you make her something. Start spreading the news: Palin in New York
Catholic priests, he added, were also prohibited from granting absolution for a confessant's sins using text messaging, e-mail or by faxing the confessant.
The government is currently granting no operating licences to foreign firms.
Politicians have perceived little gain in granting petitions for something that offends the sensibilities of a significant number of the heterosexual majority.
These interests may be created expressly by granting another person a right over one's land, or by reserving a right over land which one is transferring to another person.
The U.S. attorney in the district can impanel a grand jury if they feel that there is evidence warranting a criminal investigation.
The boss called the foreman on the carpet for granting sick leave to a worker without first asking for permission.
They seemed to be ranting and raving at each other about some kind of mistake.
Writing and ranting that is neither clever nor funny hardly qualifies as banter.
The major features include granting longterm tenurial arrangements to qualified applicants, technical and modest material assistance and institution building aimed at developing capability for community-based resource management. Chapter 5
Other experts are concerned that the granting of such discretionary powers would foster corruption. Times, Sunday Times
Most of the contemporary "political poetry" I've read remain mired in authorial biography (granted, it could be a function of my reading habit) -- they were writ primarily to make the authors feel better (by *feel better*, it includes ranting against abuse). POLITICS, ON THE POEM'S OWN TERMS
It's important to decide what's more significant: the annihilationist anti-Israel ranting, the Holocaust denial and other Iranian provocations -- or the fact of a Jewish community living, working and worshipping in relative tranquillity. See No Evil
In 1919 the Washington Post applauded "serious cleaning up" of "bewhiskered, ranting, howling, mentally warped, law-defying aliens" and "international misfits," and in subsequent generations we find parallel support for official, well-muscled efforts to make us feel safe by finding an internal enemy that can be attacked. Michael Roth: Review of Jay Feldman's Manufacturing Hysteria
How he took, as his vice president, a Machiavellian monster, and responded -- like LBJ after the Gulf of Tonkin -- with what can only be called the grossest stupidity -- thereby granting Osama bin Laden all he could ever have dreamed of in mounting his 9/ll horror -- is a chapter that was sad for an admirer of the American presidency to have to write. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
Stop the media's ranting and raving about 6,000 or even 7,000 dead, many of whom never died at all.
The ONLY reason a 'film and culture' writer like Kim Morgan would be 'ranting and raving' at all about anything related to this case is because Roman Polanski is a famous person and Kim Morgan is a starfucker. Kim Morgan: Rage, Repulsion, Response, Roman
First: prohibition of estate owning, distribution of land among the peasant families, the untransferrable and unalterable granting of ownership to all the present small tenant farmers, sharecroppers, agricultural laborers and squatters, state economic and technical aid, reduction of taxes. STATEMENTS BY CASTRO AT PRIME MINISTER OF THE RE
Daron was off his nut all night, ranting and raving with little coherency.
This text speaks explicitly of those whom the Lord (has) deigned to regenerate of water and the Holy Spirit, granting to them remission of their sins. Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 7 - The Vigil of Pentecost and the Holy Week Readings
EDITOR: Perhaps they have just had enough of a peculiar and frankly rather worrying, ranting, raving, Nokia throwing, printer hurling, crabbit eejit? Archive 2009-06-01
Hayden had won in his dice-throwing and Fate took defeat handsomely, granting him his desires and throwing a favor or two for lagnappe. The Silver Butterfly
They therefore supported new industries by granting subsidies, tax exemptions, tariff protection and emergency relief.
Mike Leavitt has signed into law a bill banning public schools from granting recognition or access to gay or lesbian student groups.
So it isn't obvious that he broke the law (on balance it seems not), in which case your rather ranting passage (terms such as dilatory, cavalier disregard, blatant disregard all appeared) seems somewhat tendentious and a bit overcooked. Sir Ian Blair: Out of Control?
Subservient Catholics and court theologians especially found it useful as warranting the secular power in making laws concerning validity and invalidity, diriment impediments, and the like. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
In other words, the tribuneship was designed to be a political dead end—a place to confine the ranting and the rancorous, the incompetent and the unpromotable: the effluent of the body politic. Imperium
As if the good people of Kentucky didn't have it bad enough with a senator like Jim Bunning, now they'll have to listen to the idiotic rantings of half-term Gov. Palin stars in new Rand Paul commercial
Unlike his ranting mannequins, however, these are bodiless assemblages, composed of oversize, fragmented facial features and accompanying voice tracks.
Unsurprisingly, Mr Manners took to blundering into my flat at 3.30 am in a most unchivalrous manner: blind drunk, ranting that his mother didn't love him.
His one contribution to the central European debate has been to raise ghosts of the past by granting citizenship to 3.5m people of Magyar extraction in neighbouring countries, while stopping short of the incendiary proposal by the neo-fascist Jobbik party to give them voting rights. Hungary: One-party rule | Editorial
She warned that granting powers to the supranational institutions would lead to a ‘European super-state’.
Not every decision or action may be defensible, warranting both guidelines and the scrutiny the review intended.
The rantings and cryings I could do unembarrassed in front of them ranting about God and the world inequality and my self-induced craziness, paranoia. Jaeaxe Diary Entry
Over the marble fireplace there were the official framed documents granting the college its coat of arms. Seminary Boy
At times there are other things that hinder you in granting that wish.

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