Sentence examples for favour that the from inspiring English sources

It might be argued, in Cameron's favour, that the Freuds' was no bilateral occasion.

Rumours were rife that she had fallen from favour, that the president was irritated by a fraud case in Switzerland and her online outbursts about her family.

By 1927, Nutcracker had slipped so far from official favour that the radical choreographer Fedor Lophukov felt free to reinvent it in the style of a satirical revue.

One seat in North Carolina, for example, was redrawn so much in the Republicans' favour that the incumbent, Heath Shuler, declined to run, leaving it almost certain to fall into Republican hands.

It could work in Ping's favour that the AU commission chair usually goes to a small African state; Dlamini-Zuma's candidature, which has been strongly supported by her government, might be perceived by some as a South African power grab.

That may have seemed impossible at the time due to Democratic opposition, but the current negotiations have swung so far in the Republicans' favour that the deal on the table now involves a ratio of spending cuts to revenue increases that is about that and includes no change to marginal rates.

Despite court rulings in the townsfolks' favour that demanded the route of the wall be shifted away from their farmland, nothing has changed.

In 1977, British playwright Tom Stoppard wrote the play Every Good Boy Deserves Favour that criticized the Soviet practice of treating political dissidence as a form of mental illness.

"That's not doing me a favour, that's simply carrying out the solemn responsibilities of holding office".

Brewers favoured that batch, and the yeast spread.

That's how Queenslanders are hearing equally gobsmacking allegations about electoral fundraising by local councils and the favours that might have been done in return.