Sentence examples for favoured doing from inspiring English sources

Four years later, just after the accident on Three Mile Island, a referendum was held in which two-thirds of voters agreed that nuclear power should be phased out gradually; the rest favoured doing so more quickly.Even at the time, nobody thought this non-binding vote required the early closure of functioning plants; in fact, six plants came on stream after it.

Walter Bagehot, a 19th-century editor of The Economist, at one time also favoured doing without a central bank, but accepted that "proposing to do away with the Bank of England is as futile as proposing to end the British monarchy".

It is argued that the diversity of these effects indicates that the mechanism by which the direct pathway becomes favoured does not involve any specific chemical functionality of the modifier.

Will you find a way of making it available to the press or to those who favour doing so, appending a few comments, yes or no?

Activists gripe that the restructuring is tipped unfairly in the banks' favour, does little to lighten Eurotunnel's crippling debt burden, and is anyway absurdly complicated.

("I suppose that says something in my favour, doesn't it? Or maybe not").

People felt responsible for me; some even owed me for favours done while sober.

"So do us and yourselves a favour, don't pick up a Penguin and don't shop at WH Smith until they see sense".

"What we need to do," argues Byrne, "is get away from the established incestuous mags with their favours done for reviews.

If you listen attentively to your date and ask them pertinent questions but they don't return the favour, don't see them again.

"The thing that bothers me is presumptions like: 'She's getting favours done because she knows Jack White,'" Price says, over meatballs.