Sentence examples for favour of personal from inspiring English sources

Dogma was rejected in favour of personal experience and experiment, and old decisions soon became outdated.

Whether magic or religion, these groups reject intellectual coherence and objectivity in favour of personal experience and dismiss science as well as traditional religion.

These lyrical, storytelling collections have disappeared in favour of personal stories and abstract references that keep a brand feeling constantly modern.

As those pleas in favour of personal freedom illustrate, Chekhov's stories frequently contain some kind of submerged moral, though he never worked out a comprehensive ethical or philosophical doctrine.

He was born in Missouri to a frustrated father, who abandoned the family and America in favour of personal ambition and Mexico, which in turn frustrated and impoverished his mother.

While Abi Morgan's script for The Iron Lady parked politics in favour of personal appraisal, this altogether more polemical work provides a solidly researched and at times surprisingly grim primer on the years leading up to Emily Wilding Davison's still contested act of self-sacrifice in 1913.

But it was not simply that Dylan had transgressed the festival's acoustic bias: the intemperate reception was in part a protest that the folk scene's unrivalled laureate had turned his back on the "duty" to protest, in a style of singalong simplicity, in favour of more personal themes, tackled in a more personal language.

I am an ardent supporter of free libraries, the National Health Service, and free education, but I am also in favour of the personal dignity that comes with honest labour.

If the paper's report is accurate, the film avoids the more controversial aspects of Mr Putin's time in office in favour of the personal.

Google has already had a bad week in Europe, what with the European Court of Justice's ruling against it in favour of protecting personal privacy, but it could still get worse.

Pablo had been plagued by a bad foot for many years, which some have suggested was the result of polio, but he eschewed western medicine in favour of his personal herbalist, Dr Owen "Bagga" Forrester.