But officials granted his request for a guest lane in the final, saying it was a gesture to the crowd and Christie.

But officials in the court granted downward departure of sentencing and so reduced it to 121 months, from the original which was between 210-262 months.

(In New York, officials can grant permission for certain needle exchange programs to operate.)

French officials confiscated much land from the more recalcitrant tribes and granted it to colonists, known as pieds-noirs.

Rent-seeking happens when officials grant rents to those in their favor.

And at the time, federal officials did not grant interstate licenses to insulin-using diabetics.

After seven months, officials granted his request and the new headstones arrived in time for Memorial Day.

The officials also granted nearly all of about 40 other student demands for improvements in academic and athletic programs.

Further bureaucratic entanglements threatened the young couple's hopes, but eventually the officials responsible granted them a dispensation to marry.

Military officials must sometimes grant the passengers clearance to come ashore.