| In other words, friendship means that a bestowal of benefits leads to a so-called fides-relationship. | 
| Or was the bestowal of a glass of wine regarded as a necessary courtesy in broaching or sealing these unsentimental transactions? | 
| The concept conveyed in the Latin-based adjective decent' has the sense of bestowal, of condescension, so that there is decorum. | 
| These people marched to protest the premature bestowal of freedom by exterior forces. | 
| The goddess is now depicted as a blind power, and hence as completely careless and indiscriminate in the bestowal of her gifts. | 
| For other Latinas and Latinos, the bestowal of posthumous citizenship was bitterly ironic. |