The phrase "actively favoured" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where someone or something is being supported or preferred in a deliberate and intentional manner.
Example: "The new policy actively favoured small businesses, providing them with grants and resources to help them grow."
Alternatives: "deliberately supported" or "intentionally preferred".
Although he was a Protestant, he actively favoured Roman Catholic emancipation, but he also wished to maintain the Anglo-Irish legislative union (in force from Aug. 1, 1800).
Her mother actively favoured the Spanish match, but her father, hoping to strengthen his ties with the German Protestant rulers, chose Frederick.
But his career is nonetheless on the line.Transcripts of telephone conversations between Mr Fazio and Gianpiero Fiorani, boss of BPI, tapped by prosecutors investigating BPI and reported in the Italian press last week, implied that he actively favoured BPI's bids.
The government of Malaysia (which in 2001 controversially decided it had always been an Islamic state) has actively favoured Islam and has increased the role of sharia courts, to the yelps of human-rights people; yet it has also presided over a vibrant economy.
Mutations causing loss of competence have not always been strongly selected against, and sometimes may have been actively favoured, so non-competent lineages often persist.
It passively or actively favours the localisation of dissolutional voids.
The emails showed officials actively favouring Clinton during the presidential primary process and plotting against Sanders, and led to the resignation of Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the DNC chair.
In contrast the reverse was the case at Britain's newer universities, created after 1992, with some actively favouring ethnic minorities.
She has been forced to step aside after a leak of internal DNC emails showed officials actively favouring Hillary Clinton during the presidential primary and plotting against Clinton's rival, Bernie Sanders.
In addition to inhibiting Runx2 expression, Snail1 actively favours the formation of immature osteoblasts, as it is necessary for Collagen I and Osteopontin expression and represses the expression of the mineralisation genes Phex and Dmp1.
Metallic drops solidified on the laser marked surface dissolved actively at OCP and favoured the nucleation of crevice corrosion, while at the pitting potential, pits nucleate preferentially on the laser marks.
