When the Dowager Countess complains about the blinding electric light in the living room, Lord Grantham says even his wife, Cora, favors progress.
The Americans are heavily favored to progress to the semifnals, but will need to find a way to unpick a stubborn New Zealand defense (for whom veteran keeper Jenny Bindon has been a standout) that ended up on the wrong end of 1-0 losses to England and Brazil in the group stages.
It's a truism verging on dogma that history favors steady progress toward equal rights for gays.
The cardinal told half a million devout Catholics that the Church favors social progress, which "can be fruitful and reasonable only in agreement with God's laws".
Time acts in favor of cariogenic pathogens which adapt to low pH values, which favor the progress of the cariogenic process.
Lisa Siegman, P.S. 3's principal for the past 12 years, said the progress report favored schools that improved their test scores over those that maintained high scores.
Traditionally, internal candidates favored by boards have progressed through positions with responsibility for larger and more complex P&L centers.
It is hard to be a lightning rod for criticism within the industry frantically soul-searching for ways to reinvent itself, but progress favors the brave.
And yet, by the logic of his own argument in favor of progress and modern civilization, Sarmiento had to accept that the gaucho's traditional way of life was condemned eventually to disappear.
Isn't it time for government officials to stop banging the drums of war talk in favor of "progress" when none exists? .
