Sentence examples for contract in favour of from inspiring English sources

Maybe he was still pondering his latest setback, the fact that another of his key players had declined the offer of a central contract in favour of a lucrative Twenty20 deal on the subcontinent.

But having relinquished an Indian Premier League contract in favour of signing for Surrey, and then staking a claim with a triple century against Leicestershire, Pietersen was not considered for a recall by the new ECB director and former team-mate Andrew Strauss.

ERC has accused the English clubs of going back on a binding contract in favour of a "questionable TV deal".

CPW's share price has been dropping after Vodafone cut their contract in favour of Phones4u and the other operators are considering doing the same as CPW considers becoming a mobile operator.

There has also been enforced changes to their overseas line-up, after world-famous batman Chris Gayle opted to renege on his contract in favour of playing for the West Indies.

Relations have thawed somewhat since then, but the companies still compete ferociously in many areas.The two old foes have come together because they have both been wrong-footed by the speed at which business customers have shunned their costly packaged software and maintenance contracts in favour of cloud-delivered services.

More than a few stories have been outright silly but others have turned out to be disturbingly true.Some suggest that the reason Mr Dogan has gone sour on the government is that it has shut him out of lucrative contracts in favour of its pious businessmen friends.

It took a few years, but as we stumble into the endlessly instagrammable summer months of 2013 it seems safe to assume we all ditched our affordable phone contracts in favour of the ability to "visit" the "app store" once every four months.

Plans for a single contract were abandoned in favour of 25 engineering contracts and 10 electrical and mechanical contracts.

When Farrell had his funny five minutes after the 2012 Six Nations and rejected the chance of a full-time contract with England in favour of a resumption of duties at Saracens, he left a crater-sized hole in the national set-up.

Having passed up the offer of a two-year contract with Burnley in favour of a new challenge in Scotland, Barton arrived in Glasgow to great fanfare, much of it generated by himself as he announced his intention to become the best player in Scottish football.