Sentence examples for favour of efforts from inspiring English sources

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

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

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.

In general terms he was in favour of Gorbachev's efforts to bring democracy to the Soviet Union; he was dismayed, however, by the break-up of the Soviet state, believing that this was not a good development for the world.

All of which is academic now, of course, given that the new owner of Nokia's device division, Microsoft, has decided to ditch the strategy in favour of focusing its efforts on its Windows Phone OS.

Moreover, despite the indication for continuous CTG recording, intermittent CTG registration was performed in 8% of cases and controls, which also speaks in favour of further educational efforts relating to risk factors for asphyxia and fetal surveillance.

Ditching meritocracy in favour of A-for-effort rubbish has naturally left many feeling very pissed off.

Joffre and his supporters won the argument, and the Balkan projects were relinquished in favour of a concentration of effort on the Western Front.

Research for BBC Scotland suggested voters in Scotland favour targeted public spending ahead of efforts to eliminate the deficit or cut taxes.