Sentence examples for Well-disposed toward from inspiring English sources

Well-disposed toward his subjects and interested in the conduct of foreign policy, Louis had not sufficient strength of character or power of decision to combat the influence of court factions or to give the necessary support to reforming ministers, such as Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot or Jacques Necker, in their efforts to shore up the tottering finances of the ancien régime.

Augusta was well-disposed toward liberals and Roman Catholics and was a friend of Queen Victoria of Great Britain.

Britain is probably the West European country most well-disposed toward shale gas exploitation, yet activists can take comfort in the stuttering start the industry has made there.

Some of Brogan's misgivings have been shared even by readers well-disposed toward Tocqueville: He didn't always define his terms with precision.

This was the redress offered to a Greek world well-disposed toward Sparta at the beginning of the war but now perhaps dismayed by the way things were going.

The Irish doctor Barry O'Meara, having asked in vain for a change in the conditions under which Napoleon lived, was dismissed; so also was his successor John Stokoe, who was likewise thought to be well-disposed toward Napoleon.

He viewed the communists as irredeemably bourgeois and far too well-disposed towards the US.

The public is fairly well-disposed towards unions, says Paul Nowak of the Trades Union Congress (TUC).

To this day, I'm curiously well-disposed towards barn owls (the logo and mascot of BBC Computers).

I was also well-disposed towards him, since he had picked The White Hotel as his Book of the Year in 1981.

If the Oscar nominations made you feel well-disposed towards Hollywood again, the Oscar ceremony was enough to put you right off it.