The phrase "are less favoured" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing preferences or advantages in comparison to others, often in contexts related to social, economic, or personal choices.
Example: "In this study, we found that individuals from lower socioeconomic backgrounds are less favoured in terms of access to quality education."
Alternatives: "are less preferred" or "are at a disadvantage".
Smaller energy firms trying to break the big energy cartels are less favoured.
"I looked at the websites for Oxford, Cambridge and Soas [School of Oriental and African Studies], but instead of having a list of what they want, they say "we prefer this" or "these A-levels are less favoured".
"I have also got disdain for the fact that under the cloak of liberalism, though I think it is woolly-minded liberalism, they take no account of the situation of those who are less favoured than they.
Analyses of residues occurring with disallowed main-chain conformation or with multiple conformations shed some light on why some residues are less favoured in thermophiles.
England v France (17:00 GMT): JG: "I think England are less favoured now to win the Six Nations, given the France scoreline when they nilled Italy last weekend.
The tree leaves are less favoured by livestock, The fodder trees grow naturally in remote areas, Other feed resources are abundantly available making tree lopping an unattractive and unnecessary task for landowners, Landowners sell their extra fodder tree leaves to landless herders during winter.
Ricks has written of his dislike of "intertextuality", preferring "allusion", but the Eliot echo chamber mapped in the notes is distinguished by the amount of references it turns up to Milton, Keats and Tennyson – favourite poets of Ricks – rather than to a poet such as Yeats, who is less favoured by that editor.
The heteroligand complex with aspartic acid has the highest value of Δlog10 β, suggesting that formation of the binary complex involving two molecules of the tridentate ligand (juxtaposed to the binary species with bidentate alanine, asparagine and protonated lysine) is less favoured than the heteroligand complex with one tridentate ligand.
Now, with increasing statistical conservatism, studies of the second type might be less favoured, giving more publication space to comprehensive exploratory and descriptive studies.
This can be done by means of a trade off (standard gamble or time trade off) or visual analogue scale, which is less favoured.
Two factors may account for this inconsistency; a) the reference standard for diagnosis (epidural blockade) is typically used as a therapy but is less favoured as a diagnostic tool [ 8, 65].
