Sentence examples for affection lay from inspiring English sources

It is impossible to link that to President Obama — who nominally endorsed the Democrat, William Thompson Jr., but left little doubt that his affection lay with the mayor.

There was no doubt where the crowd's affections lay on Court Philippe Chatrier, with 2009 champion Federer given the support of a home player.

Why a band on their third album are headlining a new bands tour remains obscure, but it's nice to see manufacturers of hair gel putting their sponsorship money where NME writers's affections lie.

More challenging is the café that has updated, dyed its hair – but that's where my real affection lies.

The organization began to feel less and less like a home (unlike Dissent, where my loyalty and affection still lie), but because of the accumulation of ties and experiences it was years before I finally left.

The sight of one in a field can be enough to rekindle atavistic affections that lie deep within.

And in that final realization of the long shadow cast by sisterly affections surely lies one aspect of this novel's greatness.

Down one path lies affection and applause.

Behind his mild ecological look — his tortoise-shell glasses, his amiable scientific manner — lay a colonel's affection for ordnance.

Its title announces its theme: the perilously loose hold we have on the lives and affections of those to whom we lay claim.

The scientists have considerable support among lay people, but even those who have affection for the space program find it hard to defend the Mars mission.