Sentence examples for declared in favour of from inspiring English sources

At Florence, Lorenzo's successor, his son Piero de' Medici, had declared in favour of Ferdinand.

That, together with aggressive diplomatic and financial inducements, sharpened the minds of Ottoman leaders, who declared in favour of France.

Nature then has declared in favour of the Patowmac, and through that channel offers to pour into our lap the whole commerce of the Western world.

An Earth summit that declared in favour of the land rights of peasant farmers would be a victory indeed.

According to the BBC website, at the time of writing 150 MPs had declared in favour of the leave campaign.

In 1846, when Peel declared in favour of free trade and against the Corn Laws, Bentinck devoted himself completely and effectively to the leadership of the protectionists.

The 10l. householders of Liverpool would declare in favour of free trade if an election took place tomorrow morning.

The revelation in yesterday's Independent that up to a hundred Conservative MPs will declare in favour of leaving the EU at the next election is the latest example.

Parliament declaring in favour of membership of a customs union would not be a defiance of the referendum verdict, though I expect the harder Brexiters would claim that anyway.

In the course of events in Islamic history, representatives of certain theological movements, who happened to be jurists and who succeeded in converting rulers to their cause, made those rulers declare in favour of their movements and even encouraged them to persecute their opponents.

In July he oversaw the occupation of Elba, but by September the Genoese had broken their neutrality to declare in favour of the French.