Sentence examples for favored to play from inspiring English sources

The fact that Venus and Serena Williams are now the world's top two female players and are favored to play for another major singles title at the Open only enhances Gibson's legacy, which began long before black players were allowed in sanctioned U.S.T.A. tournaments.

Ivory Coast, favored to win it, plays one host, Equatorial Guinea, on Saturday.

The Steelers are 3-0 and will be favored to go 4-0 when they play the Baltimore Ravens next Sunday because in a quarterback-driven era (there have already been 5 400-plus yard passing games, the most through three weeks in N.F.L. history) they have managed to make the position almost beside the point.

The NIPFs favored the government to play an important role in removing the current obstacles in the energy wood market.

In particular, every single Trump charge of "trading favors" or "pay to play" has been debunked by the many analysts who have looked at the Clinton Foundation--and notably, no U.S. investigative agency has chosen to go after it.

They will not be favored if they advance to play the San Diego Chargers or the Colts.

NFL coaches, college coaches and former professional players appear to be overwhelmingly in favor of waiting to play tackle football until high school.

In his eyes, we were two kids and he did us an enormous favor by consenting to play the lead in Paths of Glory, threatening UA that he would cancel their next picture, The Vikings, if they didn't make Paths.

He said the area still felt stiff; he was favoring it but expected to play.

Shortly before Tennessee was to play heavily favored Jacksonville last Sunday, players from the Titans squeezed into their meeting-room chairs, expecting the normal fare of football gobbledygook.

Conversely, on Saturday and Sunday night, people indeed went out to play, but favored places close to where they live.