Sentence examples for favours on from inspiring English sources
The party did itself no favours on this score by nominating as its candidate for president a senator from one of the nation's more liberal states who has one of the most liberal voting records in the Senate.But Mr Kerry is a Vietnam war hero, a fact that perhaps only a few farmers in Mongolia still do not know.
The ruling party has been showering favours on local chiefs, who still hold much influence.
The risk is that this degenerates into bestowing favours on the well-connected.
But the dictator refused, preferring to bestow his favours on different art movements at different times.
Ronaldo's reputation for diving did him no favours on or off the pitch.
Middlesex, though, have not played like champions-in-waiting and they did themselves no favours on the third day.
Further, to favour on-target responses over off-target responses, the integrated response was divided by the logarithm of the bottom asymptote of the logistic model.
Because the big ones are more likely to be known, the odds are in our favour on that one.
Which view one decides to favour on this point may well end up being an issue about definition.
A balcony with a lifeboat in front of it could have one thing in its favour – on many ships it means you won't be overlooked.
She had pursued every introduction, cadged every favour on offer.
