The phrase "actually favoured" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that something is preferred or supported in a particular context, often in contrast to what might be expected.
Example: "Despite the initial concerns, the new policy is actually favoured by the majority of the staff."
Alternatives: "truly preferred" or "genuinely supported".
Most scientists actually favoured deep-sea disposal, regarding disposal on land as more difficult and potentially environmentally hazardous.
Schneiderman said Barclays had told its dark pool clients that it monitored for high-speed trading, but it didn't and it actually favoured high-speed traders.
What they can't have is the policy, which no one has ever actually favoured, of giving away free money to anyone who happens to reside within their country's borders.
It should be noted, however, that the policies actually favoured by such groups differed little in their scope and purpose from the New Deal regulatory and social-welfare programs of the 1930s and hardly amounted to orthodox socialism.
In 1979 the Labour Party government, supported by the SNP and Plaid Cymru as well as the Liberal Party, held referenda that would have devolved power, but they were rejected by voters in both Wales and Scotland (a majority of voters in Scotland actually favoured devolution, but the proportion did not exceed the two-fifths of the electorate required for passage).
"We've shown that when the full WMap data are considered, the texture hypothesis isn't actually favoured," he said.
As a female engineering student, the situation actually favours me greatly.
This rather oddly will be a case of removing a tax expenditure which actually favours the least wealthy.
Small Canadian publishers actually favour e-lending because the library market there accounts for as much as 40% of their business, says Paul Whitney, formerly of Vancouver Public Library.
(While most Republicans actually favour a path to citizenship, most Tea-Party primary voters oppose it; 37% would support a national effort to deport all undocumented immigrants).
One problem for the atheists is that, much as priests may rant against the materialist society, it actually favours their vision of an afterlife.
