For starters, the Republicans favor almost $700 billion in extended tax cuts for the most affluent Americans.
For Sec. General, we'd be inclined to favor almost any Good Humor vender.
Ever conscious of her fans, Ms. Smith played to the tabloid photographers, arriving in court every day in an eye-catching outfit — she favored pinstripes — almost as though the trial were a performance.
Every administration since 1967, when Israel won a war and occupied the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, has privately favored returning almost all of that territory to the Palestinians for the purposes of creating a separate Palestinian state.
But the two shows couldn't be more different: whereas Simon favored an almost vérité austerity in his filmmaking, Vince Gilligan opts for Technicolor landscapes, hallucinogenic visuals, and a whole bag of narrative tricks (flashbacks, flash-forwards, montages, music videos, etc).
Until recently, domestic consumers had seemingly been happy with the arrangement, paying up to 5,000 yen, about $62, for a 10-kilogram bag of Japonica, the sticky, short-grain rice favored here — almost 10 times the going rate globally for the more common, long-grain variety.
This is the fundamental idea behind proposals for a Medicare-for-all insurance system, or the single-payer approach that's favored by almost all other developed countries.
If you look at the history of presidential politics in the modern era, the last half-century-plus, the strongly favored frontrunner almost never cruises easily to victory.
