Sentence examples for considerable favour from inspiring English sources

That argument, together with his personal popularity and nationalist reputation, finds considerable favour.

He is willing to pay someone to officiate at a depressed friend's own suicide, and will do a considerable favour to anyone acceding to his request.

Rosol not only did Andy Murray a considerable favour by opening up that side of the draw, he illuminated the tournament with the sort of high-risk tennis rarely seen at this level.

In The Science Delusion, Rupert Sheldrake drags ten of the most powerful dogmas out of the basement and into the light of day; and does science, humanity and the world a large, a considerable favour.

Villiers, indeed, enjoyed considerable favour with the king, who granted him a private bounty of £400 p.a. in 1804 after being compelled to refuse him an office at Windsor Park.

In time, however, the clear Fascist determination to annihilate Communist cadres, coupled with the Communist realization that the divided state of the left had greatly facilitated the achievements of the right, aroused among European Communists considerable sentiment favouring alliance with at least the non-Communist left to combat Fascism.

With a majority of just 12 MPs, Cameron cannot afford to alienate many of them over the issue of salaries and he will earn a considerable amount of favour if he does not block the rise.

Thus the inclusion of screen detected cases introduces a considerable bias in favour of screening.

If the world phases out the use of fossil energy quickly in favour of renewables, considerable ground will be gained, not only in terms of the climate.

Arguments in favour of a "considerable" expansion of QE advanced at this month's MPC meeting were: "The potential adverse consequences of adding another large monetary stimulus might be less severe than the possible costs of acting too cautiously.

There was also a considerable number of proposals in favour of alternative approaches.