Sentence examples for claim to favour from inspiring English sources

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All three claim to favour deregulation, but none sounds convincing.

Neoconservatives claim to favour equality of opportunity, not equality of outcome.

But European governments, while criticising spraying, have not reached into their pockets to back the alternatives they claim to favour.

When these political measures play out at a local level it calls into serious question the government's commitment to the creation of a 'big society', as well as its claim to favour sustainable economic growth through engagement with local government and the revival of town centres.

Others, especially in Europe, claim to favour more "social investment" rather than military aid but the European Union has so far offered only a modest $100m in aid to Colombia, though Spain has also offered a similar sum.According to a second set of critics, Plan Colombia's military aid is too narrowly focused on the United States' war against illegal drugs rather than on Colombia's own problems.

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The powerful, in other words, claimed to favour the moral course.

He is pro-guns, claims to favour low taxes and opposes gay marriage.

The opposition party is now divided on reform, with about one-third of its members in Congress claiming to favour what the president is trying to do.

Musgrove, Arthur Yes, but New Labour claims to favour "what works" but so often prioritises timidity and impression management, thereby betraying its ideological bias in favour of "not rocking the boat".

Myanmar's president, Thein Sein, who claims to favour a political solution to the conflict, ordered the army to begin a ceasefire on January 20th, but this was broken by its own troops almost immediately.

In a bid to catch the votes of Britain's fishing communities, they were indulging in a nasty piece of foreigner-bashing which cast doubt on their claims to favour free trade, market forces and a constructive role in Europe.

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