'fall in favour of' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to indicate a shift or transition of opinion in support of a certain thing or person. For example, "The public's opinion of the Prime Minister began to fall in favour of his challenger."
Fossil fuels will still be the dominant source of energy in 2035, though their share in the energy mix will fall in favour of renewable energy sources and nuclear power.
Tim Bamford, intellectual property partner at Withers law firm, said: "On the face of it, it does fall in favour of Amazon and Google as it justifies [the MP3Tunes] basic business model.
Instead of being ahead of the game, the IOC has too often appeared two steps behind – waiting to see if the chips will fall in favour of it being able to maintain inertia.
This trend is not one that is present in any of the significant contribution types, where expected conference to journal ratios predictably fall in favour of conferences, but with a healthy distribution between both types of publication nonetheless.
"What this paper does is, instead of getting into the ideology and the history of these arguments... they have just taken the data and analysed it, and said: Where do the chips fall?" The chips, in this case, appear to fall in favour of a natural history of violence.
Given the numerous evidence-based indications for obstetric acupuncture and lack of evidence of harm, risk:benefit assessments will often fall in favour of treatment.
Maxus UK, a media agency, already publishes their gender pay gap online, and found it fell in favour of women by 0.2%.
On Friday, Redgrave and Ivory were back on the Croisette (Merchant died in 2005) to present a restored print, reflect on how the film's message – about the necessity of bridging the English class divide – is less fashionable today and consider why the film's fortunes fell in favour of a millennial itch for grit.
The extent to which this balance falls in favour of sustainability over coming decades will be determined by political discourse as well as technical innovation.
My own view is that the scales weighing the benefits versus challenges of having international students fall overwhelmingly in favour of us being the welcoming sector we are, and that anything less would be a desperate loss for us all.
I try to avoid being an out-and-out evangelist for the technology, because, although ground source heating makes a lot of sense for offices, hospitals and colleges, which have large heating and cooling requirements, it's difficult at the moment to get the economics to fall out in favour of ground source heat pumps for many residential properties, where they have to compete with mains gas".
