The phrase "favour it over" is a perfectly valid phrase in written English.
It is typically used when comparing two or more different items, activities, or ideas. For example, "When deciding which painting to purchase, I favoured the one with the vibrant colours over the more traditional painting."
It has risen sharply in value, flattered by cyclical forces that have favoured it over the dollar.
As a teenager, Dutronc, like so many others, was inspired by the burgeoning sound of rock'n'roll coming out of the US, and in 1959 he picked up the guitar for the first time, soon favouring it over his ukulele; he'd also learned to play violin and piano as a youngster.
In CO atmosphere, however, ruthenium oxides remain stable, depending on the Pt to Ru site distribution: it is assumed that Pt in contact with Ru acts as a "catalyst" for the reduction of ruthenium oxides and strengthens the Ru CO bond favouring it over Ru-O (ligand effect).
The only difference here is that this one has a pretty obvious shelf life: until the generation that favours it over phone apps disappears.
According to Alan Boss of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, a subgroup of the IAU met on August 18, 2006 and held a straw poll on the draft proposal: only 18 were in favour of it, with over 50 against.
It is said that art-market booms favour artistic over-producers such as Hirst.
For that matter, it is also like those assurances by the opposition Democrat Party, when it says that it favours elections over the anti-government protesters' demand for an appointed "people's council".
Despite attracting a voice cast that included Daniel Craig and Jonathan Pryce for the English-language version, it flopped – arguably because it favoured style over substance.
At its worst, it favoured form over content and inflated box-ticking pieties into multimillion-pound structures.
