Sentence examples for favoured himself from inspiring English sources

The election is being held under the rules introduced several months after the revolution, mainly easing eligibility criteria which were passed under Mr Mubarak and seemingly favoured himself and his son, Gamal, then seen as the likely successor.

Although Nutkins' documentary avoids one area of controversy that it should really address, a dispute over Morris's will that cut out his family but favoured Nutkins himself, there's still plenty to suggest the presenter could sometimes be a difficult character – especially if you tried to steal his limelight.

I love Sam Simmons's work, I recommend his new show - but I don't think he's doing himself favours by styling himself, at its climax, as uniquely odd.

He has manipulated the system to favour both himself and the ruling party, Golkar.

Although the man himself favoured pink silk pants.

He himself favoured a government led by HH Asquith, the leader of the Liberals.

The drafters of the code saw no reason to modify the traditional situation, and Napoleon himself favoured subordination of the wife to the husband.

Rain, of course, was a theme that Thomas himself favoured, and it might be thought a bold choice for the young poet, almost asking for trouble.

In these early years, Hauser drove a cab to support himself and the group had no distinctive sound, veering between country, R&B and the jazz and swing styles favoured by Hauser himself.

Twardowski himself favoured descriptive psychology as basic, but many of his students found logic to be the most important source of methodological criteria for philosophy.

The subsequent discussion occasioned by their debate primarily concerned some issues about the degree to which Strawson's criticisms as a whole were fair to Austin, and also whether the approach to truth that Strawson himself favoured was adequate.