Sentence examples for favour efforts from inspiring English sources

Many had been beheaded after being tortured.See article: War and peace in ColombiaPresident Fernando Henrique Cardoso sacked the head of Brazil's powerful National Development Bank, who seemed to favour efforts to promote nationalist economic policies.

For example, the Republican defence of Medicare during the debate over health reform has puzzled many of those who believe that the party of small government should favour efforts to curb Medicare cost growth.

Lagarde downplayed the need to cut spending and implement austerity programmes in favour of efforts by governments to stimulate their flagging economies.

This time the vote was strongly in favour and efforts to create a separate structure for traditionalists who could not accept female bishops were ruled out.

Why can't we pursue our attempts, say, to arrive at a systematic hierarchy of natural concepts and laws, without assuming in advance that nature will favour our efforts?

An active environmentalist, Scott has also joined with WWF-Canada to speak out in favour of efforts to maintain British Columbia's natural wilderness.

On Friday, three new co-sponsors joined the 120 congressmen who have already backed the so-called USA Freedom Act, but their reform bill faces tough competition from rival lawmakers who claim the president's broad support for the NSA favours separate efforts to protect its powers.

However, the wide disparity between Catholic and Protestant support for the agreement in Northern Ireland (96 percent of Catholics but only 52 percent of Protestants voted in favour) indicated that efforts to resolve the sectarian conflict would be difficult.

Teaching machines and computer-aided instruction, behaviour modification (e.g., the use of tokens to reward desired behaviour among psychiatric patients), and planned utopian societies (Walden II) all found scientific origins in Skinner's rejection of theory in favour of direct efforts to produce results.

Labour is "in favour" of government efforts to work with other countries to curb benefits for EU migrants, said shadow work and pensions secretary Rachel Reeves.

(Interview no. 15, Female, 25 years) The majority of respondents were in favour of prevention efforts against HIV/STIs before travelling abroad and wished for more.