The Ravens were also upset about a series of calls that they felt favored the Patriots and made their comeback possible.
Paradoxically, the child who feels favored is sometimes the one who suffers, from what Kramer's research colleague Amanda Kowal of the University of Missouri-Columbia calls the "golden child" syndrome.
The company's refreshed look-and-feel favored an attractive design over ease-of-use, many have complained.
Suffolk County's contract and the expected domino effect has brought renewed cries from local officials to change the state's 1967 Taylor Law, which governs collective bargaining for public-employee unions and which they feel favors the unions and hamstrings the municipalities.
But several players felt he favored Mr. Jacoby because they were both white.
Gandhi was assassinated in 1948 by a former R.S.S. member who felt Gandhi favored Islamic Pakistan over India.
Even a manager who considers herself a champion of fair-employment practices might feel justified favoring a physically attractive job candidate over someone who is plain.
It also introduced the world to the French judge Marie Reine Le Gougne, who had impeccable credentials, and who first made and then retracted statements acknowledging pressure she felt to favor the Russians.
Mr. Russell grew up in Connecticut, where his sisters teasingly called him the Godlet because they felt he was favored as the only boy.
A big-faced, slow-eyed man with a salt-and-pepper beard, Shah wore a shalwar kameez and a pakul, the felt porkpie hat favored by the former anti-Soviet mujahideen.
Based on their quickness in the final two races of the challenger series against America One, in light to moderate conditions similar to today's, many felt the forecast favored Luna Rossa.
