Sentence examples for favourable either to from inspiring English sources

The period of transition from the Bronze to the Iron Age, when Aegean external relations were violently interrupted, was not favourable either to wealth or art; and the only considerable pieces of plate that have come from Greece are embossed and engraved silver bowls made by Phoenicians.

The channel's deputy director-general was reportedly held at the same time as Mr Rui.According to an employee at CCTV-2, the channel's vast influence offers easy scope for bribe-taking, either to get favourable stories aired or to have negative ones suppressed.

In terms of the outcome, the battle does not appear to have been strategically favourable to either side.

GBP1, may have a dual role in breast cancer, either favourable due to its participation in an NK signature associated with a longer disease-free survival (Ascierto et al, 2012), but also to its enclosure in a signature associated with tamoxifen resistance (Elias et al, 2015).

It was very favourable to GSO and to Arrium and not favourable to the banks," he said.

The German strategy was therefore to try to provoke an engagement on favourable terms: either inducing a part of the Grand Fleet to enter battle alone, or to fight a pitched battle near the German coast, where friendly minefields, torpedo boats, and submarines could even the odds.

Yet, as Mr Bundy observes, "the historian is bound to gulp in disbelief: in the whole range of Nixon's writings there is hardly a favourable reference to human rights either as an ideal or as a practical force in international affairs".Mr Kissinger receives handsome praise for his shuttle negotiations between Israel and Egypt and his moves during the Jordanian crisis of 1970.

Under the inquisitorial procedure, the pretrial hearing for bringing a possible indictment is usually under the control of a judge whose responsibilities include the investigation of all aspects of the case, whether favourable or unfavourable to either the prosecution or defense.

Wealthy Romans, who either hoped to gain favourable mention or feared to receive unfavourable, albeit oblique, mention in his epigrams, would supplement the minimum dole by dinner invitations or by gifts.

The 40Ar/39Ar dating results are discussed in terms of climatic condition changes during the Palaeogene that were favourable to the genesis of either Al- and Fe- or Mn-oxy-hydroxides in the course of development and evolution of the pisolitic formation.

Our results show that epigenetic variation is inherited in chickens, and we suggest that selection of favourable epigenomes, either by selection of genotypes affecting epigenetic states, or by selection of methylation states which are inherited independently of sequence differences, may have been an important aspect of chicken domestication.