Sentence examples for favoured name from inspiring English sources

There he discovered that Lembit Opik is not a favoured name.

One favoured name here is General Wesley Clark, who came to public attention as the military commander in the Kosovo campaign in 1999.

Esure is our favoured name within the subsector, as we believe it has been unfairly punished for disappointing since its IPO due to weak growth, but the market inflection could allow it to revisit its IPO aspirations.

(The answer has much to do with Walter's difficulties in struggling into a pair of breeches, and the maid Susannah's inability to hold in her head his favoured name, "Trismegistus", as she runs down the corridor to where the vicar waits to christen an apparently dying newborn).

The favoured name back then, understood to be Science Museum North, "made no reference to the museum's content, nor 'national' status", the minutes reveal, but by capitalising on the 'science museum' name "had the potential to attract significant funding and was flexible enough to cover a range of topics".

The favoured name for this species among naturalists has changed over the years, with "landrail" and variants of "corncrake" being preferred at various times.

Popular opinion favoured naming the battle after the village of Towton because of the battlefield's proximity to the settlement, which was the most prominent in the area at that time.

Hispanics tended to favour names which ranked high on the "Hispanic Name Index", though not to the same extent as blacks using black-sounding names.

Around the late 1950s, Osborne began recording under his own name, favouring place names for his instrumental titles – the best known are "The Lights Of Lisbon", "The Man From Marseilles", "The Windows Of Paris", which became the theme music for the BBC drivetime programme, Roundabout and was recorded by Bing Crosby, with lyrics by Johnny Mercer, and "The Man From Madrid", a Top 50 entry in 1961.

Herschel suggested naming his new discovery Georgium Sidus (Latin: "Georgian Planet") after his patron, King George III of England, while the French favoured the name Herschel.

The English settlers favoured the name "Buenos Aires" and the Scottish "New Glasgow".