Where the Christopher Nolan films and TV show Batman: The Animated Series gave us a caped crusader who often outwitted his enemies, and favoured hand-to-hand over firearms, Dawn of Justice introduced a dark knight who blasts Gotham's bad guys with giant Batguns and has no obvious moral code.
Late Friday, the Obama administration took another step toward following through on its intention to significantly change US detention policy by dropping the Bush administration's favoured description of the Guantánamo detainees as "enemy combatants".
His close friendship with Gaddafi's second and favoured son, Saif al-Islam, had made him enemies among the rebels, which explains why he did not return after Gaddafi's death in October.
Amésqueta was extremely suspicious of the small canoes being supplied, knowing that the Itza had 30-man canoes; he was also aware that tricking enemies into small canoes was a favoured tactic among the lowland Maya to separate and kill Spanish intruders.
His favoured method was assassination of the most important contemporary enemy of the Muslims, the apostate "Pharaoh", a clear reference to the president of Egypt, Anwar Sadat.
While Blatter, consumed with megalomania, has forlornly played his usual games – attempting to knock out his enemies and promote the chances of his favoured sons – wider forces are at work.
John also used revenue generation as a way of exerting political control over the barons: debts owed to the crown by the king's favoured supporters might be forgiven; collection of those owed by enemies was more stringently enforced.
As Mr Ellis tartly remarks, "among pension-fund executives, the elusive magic of outperformance is now the most favoured way of closing funding gaps".The best, it seems, is the enemy of the good.
A bitter enemy of the French Revolution, Steiger headed the Swiss party that favoured resistance against the French Revolutionary armies, for which purpose he allowed English, Spanish, and Sardinian recruitment of Swiss mercenaries in 1793 and 1795.
Red Cavalry made Babel famous (though it also made him powerful enemies) and earned him the perks that the Soviet system bestowed on favoured artists.
