Sentence examples for favour of anyone from inspiring English sources

Johnny Rodrigues, chair of Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force, said: "I am not in favour of anyone donating wild animals for a celebration or for any other reason.

The president blames his brother for mingling with the "wrong people" and insists he did not take any money and never intervened in favour of anyone with legal problems.

It will take every particle of Paddy Ashdown's considerable energy, through his new More United platform, to make it remotely possible for anyone to stand down in favour of anyone else.

The desperate attempt by Thomas and the lord chancellor Wolsey to persuade the Pope to annul Henry's marriage to Katherine of Aragon in favour of someone – anyone – who could reliably pop out an heir forms the meat of this opening episode.

"I am in favour of speaking to anyone who wants to talk to us," he said.

Yet few, other than the police, favour the permanent storage of anyone who has been arrested.

To the chagrin of anyone in favour of freedom of speech, such as Barack Obama, there are new calls at the United Nations to introduce an international law restricting blasphemy.

The Right to Information movement and strugglewas, and is, a collective search for principles and modes to restore the balance of power in favour of the ordinary citizen.For anyone on a journey to infuse reason and justice in basic systems of democratic governance, it became increasingly clear that it would not be possible in an opaque and unaccountable system.

They added: "The consultation has ignored the views of 500,000 British residents in favour of anonymous submissions from anyone anywhere in the world".

But by refusing to accept that experiencing a mental health difficulty is something of which to be ashamed, Zeta-Jones may have done us more of a favour than anyone realises.

This approach removes personal responsibility in favour of obedience and I think anyone with a sense of history will recognise the dangers inherent in it.