Sentence examples for favouring I from inspiring English sources

For example, enhanced pollen competition can be beneficial for the female function by favouring (i) fathers that will give rise to offspring with more competitive pollen (the Fisherian model, Lande 1981) or (ii) genetically superior fathers (good genes, the indicator model, Zahavi 1975; Hamilton and Zuk 1982).

Secondly, that the proportion of female larvae that develop indirectly into free-living females is favoured, i.e. the female-only developmental choice becomes more biased towards the development of adult free-living females [ 5].

b) The Interpersonal Values Questionnaire (IVQ), which measures the extent to which the respondent favours i ndividual freedoms (versus societal rules) as a basis for making moral decisions [ 9, 11].

Ornamental cacti, on the other hand, appear to be selected for features other than those that directly enhance invasiveness; in particular, species that survive without much input and grow slowly are favoured (i.e. more K-selected than r-selected).

In its favour I will say this.

Orbán's enemies are doing him a favour, I suspect.

It's not just a favour I want.

He added: "I was asked to do a favour, I did a favour.

"In my favour I will have the wind and the rain.

Rupert Murdoch doesn't have to beg for favours (I never claimed Downing Street does what I say, Letters, 20 December).

But we do teenage girls no favours, I suspect, by leaving them with no place to shelter.