Sentence examples for dispensing favors from inspiring English sources

Mr. Obama, the campaign says, is dispensing favors to his biggest donors.

Mr. Talabani has long been the most charismatic Kurdish leader, and last week he was looking more and more like a ward boss dispensing favors.

Yet they often appear to be working at cross-purposes and have yet to coalesce around a political idea other than controlling patronage and dispensing favors.

4 Remember: You're not Begging; You're Dispensing Favors It helps considerably to think of yourself not as a beggar but rather as if you're "doing that person a favor," LaMorte says.

They saw him as running their country like a gangland boss, dispensing favors to friends, buying lavish homes for his various mistresses and raking in kickbacks from tobacco taxes and the profits of illegal gambling schemes.

At the end of a drunken night spent soaking up the bleak atmosphere and dispensing favors that keep backfiring in violence, Charlie is roundly punished -- not for his crimes, but for having feelings, the unpardonable sin in an unforgiving genre that has found a sterling new champion in Phillips.

There was the boss, or liege lord, who occasionally dispensed favors (raises, that is) but more often withheld them.

In the years since Idriss Déby had seized power, he had engineered fraudulent elections, enriched himself, and dispensed favors to his inner circle.

During the economic boom years, ushered in by a sustained increase in oil prices, the parties dispensed favors, subsidies and alms.

She writes of a Lagos filled with climbers, debating the merits of American affectations versus English ones for their children, gravitating to those who hold enough power to dispense favors.

It was part of the afflicted history of a country that was the last in the Western Hemisphere to abolish slavery and was once broadly dominated by agrarian oligarchs who dispensed favors and controlled rural areas like fiefs.