Sentence examples for favoured themselves from inspiring English sources

If, say, the LSE's share-dealing owners created rules and trading systems which favoured themselves over their customers, investors would go elsewhere.Some of the parliamentarians suspect that Mr Lawrence was rudely ejected last year because his reforms would have shrunk the dealing profits of the middlemen who run the exchange.

One reason for the shocking lack of turnover of congressmen is gerrymandering: when they get the chance, both parties redraw electoral maps to favour themselves.

Informants felt that more formal systems for allocating opportunities would control the ability of managers to favour themselves or their friends or relatives: "I worked in a hospital where there was a system.

First, because of some chance preadaptation, mutation or environmental change, organisms find themselves favoured in their new environment (Sakai et al. 2001).

In the 1942 Stanley Cup Finals, the heavily favoured Maple Leafs initially found themselves unable to counter the fifth-place Red Wings' strategy of firing the puck into the offensive zone then chasing after it, losing the first three games of the final as a result.

Alternatively, long chains of nodes are favoured before they close upon themselves to stabilize.

This is why tariffs are favoured by industries that find themselves pressed by foreign competitors.

The former Celtic manager said: "As I keep saying, the whole squad did themselves favours tonight.

More to the point, why do men themselves favour weasel chic?

Interviewers tend to favour people like themselves, and draw false conclusions about other applicants.

The distribution of GC-content over the Illumina HT-12 probes clearly shows that they have been designed with a bias such that the nucleotide distribution of the probes themselves favour a greater-than-random fraction of GC-nucleotides.