Sentence examples for favoured group from inspiring English sources

Their opponents, among them Adam Smith, David Ricardo, and J.A. Hobson, often admit that imperialism may benefit a small, favoured group but never the nation as a whole.

Quotas tend to benefit the luckiest and best-prepared of the favoured group, not the most disadvantaged, says Andreas Schleicher, an education expert at the OECD.

The legislature could provide a favoured group with a new tax loophole by a simple majority, but eliminating the same loophole at some later point would require two-thirds.But there were also, as usual, unintended consequences.

Some explanation is called for, then, of the significance in justice of the particular character of one's favoured group definition.

Finally, we interestingly found that, due to unobserved cultural factors, black immigrants are more crime-averse than black natives and white natives, despite the fact that they are the least favoured group with regard to their socio-economic characteristics. 1 For details on the survey design of the CJS refer to Hamlyn et al. (2003).

In office, he has favoured group rights for Amerindians, who make up around half the total population of 12m.

His friends do not exempt favoured groups or minorities either.

Ministries have already submitted their spending plans, including pork for favoured groups, hoping for the usual lack of political oversight.

Some allow farmers to trade and rent them, others dole them out to favoured groups such as young farmers, farmers in disadvantaged regions or (officials allege) political supporters.

They are far too susceptible to scandal (witness the current furore in India over the sale of mobile-phone licences to favoured groups).

Its favoured groups did well, whether motorists rewarded with the cancellation of a 3p rise in fuel duty – the headline move designed to win tabloid cheers – or the elderly given a 2.5% rise in the state pension.