After the accession of Henry III, who did not favour Ronsard so much, he lived in semi-retirement, though his creativity was undiminished.
Why they favour chemical weapons so much is the psychological impact it has.
For Jackson, basketball was a sport that did not so much favour black athletes as pigeonhole them.
The ranking was heavily weighted in favour of carbon footprint; so much so that Americans would need to have been in a state of perpetual bliss, and have had a life expectancy of 439, to equal Vanuatu's score.
Positive discrimination in favour of men is so much part of the fabric of the place that those bristling so self-righteously at the smallest whiff of discrimination in favour of women have completely internalised a long-standing default-male status quo.
A diplomatic visit to England (where he found so much favour with Charles I that the latter knighted him) in 1630 had resulted in the commission to decorate the ceiling of the Banqueting Hall in Whitehall, one of the most monumental commissions of Rubens' last period.
She favoured it, but not so much on grounds of individual freedom as on a fairly ruthless assessment of the use of old people.
In her memoir, The Favoured Daughter, she wrote: "So much has been done in recent years to support and enhance the overall progress of Afghan women; bringing the Taliban back into the government will undo all that".
But the People's Republic also resists the temptation, intervening to stop the yuan from rising against the dollar.Why are weak currencies so much in favour these days?
Mr Richardson was said to be on Mr Kerry's shortlist for vice-president, possibly as a way of flattering Latinos (who favour the Democrats, but not so much that they can be taken for granted).
