Sentence examples for favor of scoring from inspiring English sources

But they mostly ignored the opportunity in favor of scoring points by putting one another down.

The examples of the Beatles (who caused mass fainting before becoming enshrined in the classic-rock canon) and Justin Timberlake (who reeled off the astonishingly adult "FutureSex/LoveSounds" after leaving 'N Sync) are conveniently forgotten in favor of scoring cheap points.

Kurt Bardella, a spokesman for the Republican members of the House Oversight Committee, said Democrats have ignored GOP calls to investigate the billions of dollars in stimulus spending and bank and other bailouts in favor of scoring "cheap political points".

Sadly, that gimmickry is par for the course for these budget plans, which eschew the hard work of plotting an achievable route to balance in favor of scoring political points.

Fifty-one seconds later, with Purinton and Malakhov on the bench in favor of Brian Leetch and Tom Poti, Leetch scored to give the Rangers a 1-0 victory.

All three judges scored the bout in favor of Fitch, two scoring it 30 27 with one judge seeing it 30 26 giving Fitch the unanimous decision victory.

This is a second argument in favor of the area scoring setting: as it is not very sensitive to the choice of the parameters, one may practically more easily tune it for optimal performance.

While Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are the 800-pound gorillas in the mortgage jungle, what really tipped the balance in favor of credit-score disclosure was the decision last February by E-Loan, an Internet mortgage provider, to post FICO scores on its Web site.

The "with" version, which included the discussion of the no screening option, was scored as being less strongly in favor of screening, but scored lower on overall impression than the "without" version.

That's the argument in favor of the score composed for a movie: it comes with no associations and derives its identity from the film in which it's used.

The Mostly Mozart Festival's secondary focus on Stravinsky this summer has been a hit, no doubt because the most frequently heard of his works — the three early ballets, the various incarnations of "L'Histoire du Soldat" and "Pulcinella" — have largely been bypassed in favor of worthy scores that are not programmed continuously through the season.