Share capital, however, would not automatically confer the privileges of ownership.

Moreover, having an old parent does not automatically confer on children the right to make the parents' health care choices.

Nor are dignity and worth automatically conferred by existence itself.

We all automatically confer a higher order to a developed biological entity like a human brain.

This doesn't automatically confer a better meal on the plane, but it does indicate a little learning, which some people find a dangerous thing.

Dignity and worth are not automatically conferred by inherited wealth.

In many cases the term is conferred automatically upon all persons who retire at a given rank.

Their jobs automatically confer valuable outsider status, even though they are sometimes newly in that role.

Middle age, she thought with a rueful smile, does not automatically confer dignity.

Birth within the territory of Ukraine does not automatically confer citizenship.