Sentence examples for favoured them over from inspiring English sources

Oxfordshire County Council's consultation criteria were biased towards urban areas, looking at how many people lived, worked, shopped, commuted in a half-mile radius of the library, which naturally favoured them over the rural libraries that will now suffer the most cuts.

During informal interviews after the implementation, the main users reported a high overall satisfaction with the electronic version of the questionnaires and favoured them over paper based forms.

He said that new policies introduced since the election in May had favoured fossil fuels over clean technology.

And by "underground", I mean clubs that favoured decent techno over deep house and a dress policy, not the kind of dickhead strongholds that only play 12-inches by Leipzig's most obscure minimal producers.

Both for their own sake, and in the interests of world trade, the practitioners of state capitalism need to start unwinding their huge holdings in favoured companies and handing them over to private investors.

Consistent with translational selection, cognate tRNA genes for favoured codons are over-represented.

Clearly, the 1970s were the great age of porky, beardy, ugly blokes making great pop (Abba, ELO, 10CC) – but the 80s still allowed the ill-favoured and over-40 to have a mainstream musical presence.

Watch them over and over and over.

Some favoured actions over words.

This commitment was reflected in his style, which was relatively sober and favoured ideas over formal elegance.

(And indeed it liberalised investment rules and cut taxes, though it also strongly favoured cronies over independent businesspeople).