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afforded

verb as in able to have or do; within financial means

verb as in give, produce

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Ms Boyd said she wanted to see legal protections like those afforded to employees by the Equality Act to extend to volunteers to ensure they have "rights and opportunities".

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The endurance of the show has afforded Pinto, now 45, the ability to live a comfortable, secure life, which isn’t lost on him.

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Mr Loughton highlighted that, as a private citizen, he no longer had "certain protections" afforded to parliamentarians, requiring him to be "even more wary".

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And there’s no empathy afforded to them for that, other than maybe from people like you and me.

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What were the seminal moments that shaped the adulation afforded to football jerseys today?

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