Sentence examples for favour of us from inspiring English sources

My admittedly unscientific survey on Line 1 from La Defense showed a clear four-to-one majority in favour of US and British novels.

They've never made the rules in favour of us and it's getting worse.

It ruled in favour of US banana interests in Central America which objected to Europe buying bananas from small-scale Caribbean producers.

Indeed I believe public opinion is still very much in favour of us taking a reasonable number of unaccompanied child refugees.

I am not hugely in favour of us diversifying into activities that others are better placed to deliver [such as drug and alcohol rehabilitation and employment support].

In a statement to Congressional leaders today, the president said he was confident that Congress would vote in favour of US military action in Syria and confirmed there exists a broader plan to help rebels defeat President Assad's forces.

Because of its history, governance of the net is unduly weighted in favour of US-based or US-dominated institutions.

The result was that 38 countries voted in favour of the US proposal, with 42 against, and 46 abstaining.

A CBS poll last week showed that 57 per cent of US citizens were in favour of sending US ground troops, a significant increase from October when 47 per cent approved action and September when only 39 per cent supported possible intervention.

This hugely welcome anthology does us the double favour of introducing us to 36 writers, living and dead, that we probably haven't heard of and goes some way to explaining why we haven't.

On pesticides, Eustice said the EU's precautionary principle needed to be reformed in favour of a US-style risk-based approach, allowing faster authorisation.