Sentence examples for doing favours for from inspiring English sources

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He was convicted of several crimes, including doing favours for bribes and requiring congressional aides to work on his farm.

But many voters see the opposition as no better, and see nothing wrong with politicians doing favours for their supporters.

It's not necessarily made explicit but a lot of it is about people doing favours for each other".

Georgia is a clannish country in which doing favours for friends is regarded as a moral obligation far more so than obeying footling little rules.

But Mr Stevens's model of development had created an inbred class of politicians and businessmen who spend their lives doing favours for each other.Mr Stevens was first appointed to his Senate seat by the then-governor, Walter Hickel.

He had a disturbingly close relationship with Tony Rezko, a Chicago property magnate who made his career doing favours for politicians who could open doors to real-estate contracts, and who is now in prison.

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You go out of your way to do favours for other people.

"The London mayor has more opportunity to do favours for his friends than any other elected official in the UK.

Lieberman's book tackles 100 common complexes ("Why do I do favours for people I don't even like?") in a couple of pages each.

It found that 77% of the public thought planning decisions were influenced by donors and 80% believed local politicians did favours for their donors.

"Seems strange that the Reagans used that excuse, since they often did favours for their Hollywood friends during their White House years," he told BuzzFeed, pointing to the former president's personal intervention to help a fundraising effort led by Bob Hope.

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