When Lincoln won, Howells had a favor to call in, and, in the spring of 1861, Howells, fervent abolitionist though he was, tried to get a consulate posting abroad, preferably in Germany.
And if you agree with the Mayor, do everyone a favor and call your elected officials in Washington and tell them you are also for intelligent immigration reform (as opposed to comprehensive immigration reform).
Instead, the song owes its existence to a last-minute favor called in to the soul singer Betty Wright, late one night in February, just as Wright was drifting off to sleep in her chair after a long day of vocal coaching.
"Do me a favor," Sirota called out from the audience, "and play the last few pages".
HTC did the market a favor by calling its new Windows Phone device "The HTC One (M8) for Windows".
"It's what you would expect from a favor being called in.
Indeed, Iraqis would do themselves a favor by calling for presenting to trial all the political and military leaders on whose watch ISIS entered the Iraqi territories and committed its heinous atrocities.
About two dozen stood to argue in her favor, calling her a dynamic leader, a go-getter, a model for their daughters.
Days before his ouster from the party in September, police officers in masks raided one of his banks in Moscow in a ritual show of force sometimes inflicted on Russian businesses that fall from favor, called a masky show.
