Sentence examples for favouring it over from inspiring English sources

As a teenager, Dutronc, like so many others, was inspired by the burgeoning sound of rock'n'roll coming out of the US, and in 1959 he picked up the guitar for the first time, soon favouring it over his ukulele; he'd also learned to play violin and piano as a youngster.

In CO atmosphere, however, ruthenium oxides remain stable, depending on the Pt to Ru site distribution: it is assumed that Pt in contact with Ru acts as a "catalyst" for the reduction of ruthenium oxides and strengthens the Ru CO bond favouring it over Ru-O (ligand effect).

It has risen sharply in value, flattered by cyclical forces that have favoured it over the dollar.

It is easier for Labour to gain the most MPs because constituency boundaries favour it over the Tories.

The only difference here is that this one has a pretty obvious shelf life: until the generation that favours it over phone apps disappears.

The majority of pharmacy students (89.2%) perceive education about CAM as a core and integral part of their professional degree and favour it over an additional postgraduate degree.

And the plot jerked us along, alternately insulting the intelligence and thwarting it, favouring muddy storytelling over complexity (what was that nonsense with the hidden letter?) and relying on half-glimpsed characters hovering at the corner of the screen at crucial moments.

For that matter, it is also like those assurances by the opposition Democrat Party, when it says that it favours elections over the anti-government protesters' demand for an appointed "people's council".

Despite attracting a voice cast that included Daniel Craig and Jonathan Pryce for the English-language version, it flopped – arguably because it favoured style over substance.

At its worst, it favoured form over content and inflated box-ticking pieties into multimillion-pound structures.

Barclays expects, as the dust settles, the world to return to an environment in which equities and government bonds are negatively correlated; it favours equities over bonds in the near term.But it is a difficult jigsaw to fit together.