Sentence examples for favoured form from inspiring English sources

At its worst, it favoured form over content and inflated box-ticking pieties into multimillion-pound structures.

Outside the state firms, the fiddly conglomerate is the favoured form of organisation.

But no, his favoured form of words describing near misses remains: "He gets the slightest touch on that, and it's a goal".

Certainly, the cash register features a printed five-letter word rhyming with 'runty', Belcher's favoured form of address to both friends and strangers.

These innovations accompanied the use of the cabriole, or reverse curve, which, about 1725, became the favoured form for legs of chairs, tables, cabinets, and stands.

Other tweeted responses to the gender-related comments include 'Is this a document from 1901?', 'Disgusting!!! Switching off!' and 'Social conditioning starts young!' Television remains the favoured form of entertainment for children in the UK.

Although he was the leader of the Dorothean, or centrist, group of the Christian Democrats, he favoured forming a coalition with the Italian Socialist Party and helped bring about the resignation of the conservative Christian Democrat prime minister Fernando Tambroni (July 1960).

In his buildings (and although he was better at other things, he always liked to think of himself as an architect before all else) he would favour forms reminiscent of children's drawings or building blocks.

That would make them easier to handle, but leave their function unchanged.If it is, indeed, a common property of proteins that they can form amyloid when unfolded, even though they do not do so in a healthy individual, Dr Dobson thinks it means that proteins have evolved to favour forms that are less likely to aggregate into these potentially fatal clusters.

He favoured organic form, which takes shape to meet the needs of a particular expression, rather than abstract form, which he defined as being superimposed on a given content.

French Canadian nationalists favoured some form of enhanced status for Quebec: special status within confederation, a new form of association on the basis of equality with English Canada, or complete independence as a sovereign country.