Sentence examples for favour themselves from inspiring English sources

One reason for the shocking lack of turnover of congressmen is gerrymandering: when they get the chance, both parties redraw electoral maps to favour themselves.

Informants felt that more formal systems for allocating opportunities would control the ability of managers to favour themselves or their friends or relatives: "I worked in a hospital where there was a system.

If, say, the LSE's share-dealing owners created rules and trading systems which favoured themselves over their customers, investors would go elsewhere.Some of the parliamentarians suspect that Mr Lawrence was rudely ejected last year because his reforms would have shrunk the dealing profits of the middlemen who run the exchange.

POLITICIANS, like sit-com makers, favour addressing themselves to the middle ranks of society, in the hope that enough of us identify with the category to tune in.

And much of this disagreement cannot simply be blamed on the bloody-mindedness of some or on those biased in favour of themselves, their families or groups.

In fact, the awards so vigorously celebrated the BBC's independence and impartiality that the BBC had to cut sections of the speeches in its broadcast of the awards, many believe, because their impartiality prevented them from appearing too in favour of themselves.

The Canovite system was artificial in that it required the contrived rotation in office (turno pacífico) of a Liberal and a Conservative party; this in turn demanded governmental control of elections, which were run by caciques, or local political bosses, who controlled votes in their districts and delivered them in return for favours for themselves and their supporters.

Next, the stage was stormed by Cunigunda, who destroyed any tired concepts of mincing female parody and gender stereotypes in favour of styling themselves as three surreal, latex-clad Amazons beamed down from Planet Drag.

Black Washingtonians are doing their richer suburban neighbours and baseball quite a favour by taxing themselves to build a $581m stadium: how many majority-white cities of our size have spent that much on sports facilities without county or state support?

More to the point, why do men themselves favour weasel chic?

Some preferred to keep a blend of company both people who knew about NXIVM and people who didn't care for it but others started to break away from their old lives in favour of surrounding themselves with likeminded people.