Sentence examples for favoured not from inspiring English sources
Bernhard favoured not just the long sentence but the infinite paragraph, the book-length block of unbroken prose.
A reported plan to embark on a £300m rights issue is not thought to be favoured, not least because ITV's shares are trading far from robustly, having fallen to 24.5p - their lowest close ever - on Friday night.
During the 1950s, such plans were favoured not only as a protection against seasonal fluctuations in employment but also as a means of protecting against the job loss that was thought to accompany the introduction of automated equipment.
Mesquite fuelwood was also favoured not because of its quality but because it could more easily be accessed.
In a nutshell, he argued that certain traits (secondary sex characters) will be favoured not because they improve survivorship or fecundity (i.e., by natural selection), but because they improve an individual's mating success.
Markets were favoured not because livestock was traded there, but because they offered a public venue where the separation of husband and wife could be witnessed.
In 40 studies, all statistically significant comparisons (P<0.05) favoured not-for-profit facilities; in three studies, all statistically significant comparisons favoured for-profit facilities, and the remaining studies had less consistent findings.
We found 82 studies, spanning 1965 to 2003, comparing for-profit and not-for-profit nursing homes.w1-w82 We found 40 studies in which all statistically significant analyses (P<0.05) favoured not-for-profit homes and three in which all statistically significant analyses favoured for-profit homes.
That would often mean favouring not just the skilled (who already get preference everywhere) but those from culturally similar backgrounds.
The average Waitrose shopper favours not the delights of a chocolate-coated biscuit, or a big old deck of bourbons, but instead literally prefers a malted milk.
When most families do not cut, incentives favour not cutting.
