It favours using its vast technical resources to develop algorithms to expose suspicious behaviour.
It favours funding its own, as yet unsuccessful, unmanned aerial vehicle, or drone, programme.
It favours negotiations with the extremist Tigers.
It favours a strong state with a mixed economy.
It favours small, inward-looking casts with clear trajectories and it thrives behind closed doors.
It favours changes to the employment law, to make it easier for employers to take on and dismiss staff.
It favours imposing harsh new sanctions on Iran, but only if the Obama administration's efforts to engage it fail.
It favours large beer halls in city centres, selling cheap food and ale for as little as 99p a pint.
It favours votes at 16, which happened for the first time in the UK in Scotland's independence referendum.
It favours the big over the small, and is another row of bricks in the wall that keeps competition out.
It favours and facilitates the generation of activity and investment in existing urban areas.
