"The ball is very favourable to us," he said.
[This] immediately brought serious changes at the front favourable to us.
On the other hand, the conditions and course of the fighting have so far been favourable to us.
How did an NSA official feel bold enough to write to UK civil servants anticipating their cooperation in an attempt to undermine the UN's diplomatic processes, in a secret effort to garner information to secure "results favourable to US goals"?
It said the agency was "mounting a surge particularly directed at the UN security council (UNSC) members", and that it wanted "the whole gamut of information that could give US policymakers an edge in obtaining results favourable to US goals or to head off surprises".
Koza was in effect issuing a direct order to the employees of a UK security agency to gather "the whole gamut of information that could give US policymakers an edge in obtaining results favourable to US goals or to head off surprises".
"We are that surprise package and that can be favourable to us.
"We've had officials who aren't favourable to us," Macken told BBC WM. "Crucially for us, they're making terrible decisions at the moment that are costing us dearly".
