Sentence examples for favor beyond from inspiring English sources

But after a string of government bailouts and with the unemployment rate still in double digits, Republicans perceive the political tide turning in their favor, beyond the gains that a party out of power typically makes in midterm elections.

It's not clear that all of the GOP's members agree with Boehner on cuts, but he does favor, beyond cuts, pursuing a tax reform effort as long as it doesn't raise new taxes.

In the last analysis, Met audiences may well want to send a box of candy and flowers to the anonymous consular official in Berlin who has done them a favor beyond price.

His onetime "SNL" brethren do themselves few favors — beyond a paycheck — by working in his orbit.

Mr. Annan did not directly address the issue being worked out between Western governments: whether the mandate of the multinational brigade should be extended, as Mr. Karzai favors, beyond its present limits to include at least the four other cities: Jalalabad, Kandahar, Herat and Mazar-i-Sharif.

Wealth and eminence and power are beyond my poor strength and skill, but on the side of sheer chance I am favored beyond all computation.

With outright censorship – which seems to be gaining global favor – far beyond what we've come to consider normal?

The possibility that Flint, having taken great joy from the world of books, might wish to return the favor is beyond his student's ken.

Here is Waley's version of the tale's opening line: "At the Court of an Emperor (he lived it matters not when) there was among the many gentlewomen of the Wardrobe and Chamber one, who though she was not of very high rank was favored far beyond all the rest".

Compare the first line of "Genji" in the translations of Waley and then Seidensticker: "At the Court of an Emperor (he lived it matters not when) there was among the many gentlewomen of the Wardrobe and Chamber one, who though she was not of very high rank was favored far beyond all the rest".

The arguments in favor of exemption, beyond a desire to please the banks, were always unconvincing.