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Discover LudwigThe phrase "favourable references" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing positive endorsements or recommendations, often in the context of job applications or academic references.
Example: "The candidate provided several favourable references from previous employers, which greatly enhanced her application."
Alternatives: "positive references" or "commendatory references".
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He is said to have crossed out all favourable references to Shackleton in his own notes on the Discovery expedition, and to have virtually ignored Shackleton's achievements in a 1912 address to the British Association.
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The Russian struggle was our struggle, Churchill announced, adding: "If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons".
Rather, akin to Churchill in 1941: "If Hitler invaded hell," he told his private secretary as Germany readied to invade Stalin's Russia, "I would at least make a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons".
In 1941, after the German invasion of the Soviet Union, he was quick to cement an alliance with the USSR, a regime he despised, saying famously that "if Hitler invaded hell, I would at least make a favourable reference to the Devil".
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.
Determine the R elements (m, n) whose value is < 0 in the reference PADIF (favourable reference interactions).
The PADIF based scoring obeys the following scheme: 1. Determine the R elements (m, n) whose value is < 0 in the reference PADIF (favourable reference interactions). 2.
The third epigram is entirely in the spirit of another provocateur, Sir Winston Churchill, who once observed, on the eve of Operation Barbarosa, "If Hitler invaded Hell, I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons". These fillips do not implicate either Alinsky or Churchill in Satanism.
The distribution in time of these surveys, is not favourable with reference to this phenomenon as it is limited to the first half of the year.
This is in contrast to terrestrial species where, for example, flowering time, migration patterns, dispersal traits, behaviour or reproductive timing have changed as phenotypic or genetic response to more favourable climatic conditions (references to be added from other reviews, this issue).
These governing bodies took the view that the proposed work did not require further approvals; however, one of the authors attended an ethics committee meeting in which the committee reviewed the study on a voluntary basis; the members present agreed that had the study fallen within their remit it would have been given a favourable opinion (REC reference 10/MRE09/23).
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