The phrase "a favoured position" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where someone or something is in a preferred or advantageous state or location.
Example: "The company has secured a favoured position in the market due to its innovative products."
Alternatives: "a preferred position" or "an advantageous position".
Henry got the ball on the left and eluded Fernando Meira to get himself into a favoured position.
During the 18th and 19th centuries, they earned a favoured position within the expanding Russian Empire as commercial and political agents, teachers, and administrators of newly won Central Asian territories.
For an isolate actor, its value is 0. Betweenness centrality views an actor as being in a favoured position to the extent that the actor falls on the shortest paths between other pairs of actors in the network.
Yes, he's tall and strong with an athletic physique, but his favoured position is not as a classic striker, but more a creative centre forward.
He has been employed as a central striker since joining Arsenal on transfer deadline day and, although Wenger believes Welbeck is benefitting from a run in his favoured position, he feels his experience of playing on the wing has helped develop him as a team player.
Unlike the Red Devils' boss, Guardiola was unwilling to guarantee Schweinsteiger a starting berth in his favoured position, in front of the defence.
Now Dell is pinning its hopes in the PC market on its favoured position as a tablet supplier in the first wave of Windows 8 products to be released this October.
McLean's favoured position is as a central midfielder, but he can also play as a left midfielder.
He's usually afforded man-of-the-match status for this, but sadly there's an elephant in the room: Liverpool wouldn't have been three goals down if Kaka, Andrea Pirlo and Gino Gatusso hadn't played ring-a-ring-a-roses around him during the first half, as Gerrard played in his favoured position, the Central Midfield Role He Doesn't Have The Nous To Fill (also known colloquially as The Beckham).
In order to test whether the favoured position on CentC is a result of nucleosome occupancy or MNase bias, we measured the relative enrichment of MNase fragments from both naked DNA and chromatin by selective amplification and Sanger sequencing.
Henry eluded Meira to put himself in a favoured, left position.
