Sentence examples for favours granted from inspiring English sources
This "New Rome," established in 324 on the site of Byzantium and dedicated in 330, rapidly increased in population as a result of favours granted to immigrants.
What should be entitlements turn into favours granted by a petty official whose palms have to be greased: claiming a pension, acquiring a telephone connection, getting your child into school.
Much of the media focus has centred on Elizabeth Warren, the firebrand Massachusetts senator whose three barnstorming speeches against the favours granted to Wall Street helped first rally opposition to the budget.
But the 64-year-old former Communist Party chief of Chongqing launched a spirited defence on the second day of his increasingly lurid trial in eastern China, describing his wife as "insane" and saying he knew nothing of the favours granted.
However, there is mounting concern that the special favours granted to the industry, including tax breaks, a quick route through the planning process and no requirement to take out insurance against pollution, will make it easier for companies to override current environmental protection rules.
We must stop treating membership of the EU as a favour granted by England, and instead make the English feel their vulnerability and dependence.
One can be indebted forever especially if the favour granted is incommensurable (e.g. saving one's life).
He said that he favoured granting an amnesty to 100 prisoners of conscience in the island's jails.
The Montagnards favoured granting the poorer classes more political power, while the Girondins favoured a bourgeois republic and wanted to reduce the power of Paris over the course of the Revolution.
Although Zardari favoured granting Musharraf immunity from prosecution, the coalition could not agree on a decision.
Since 2012, judges in California, Georgia, New York, and South Carolina have ruled in dancers' favour, granting them millions of dollars in back wages, and cases are pending in Illinois and Pennsylvania.
