The first favours the Brics; the second the G7.
The first, favoured by lawful drug dispensers, is that we are reluctant to recognise brain diseases.
The first, favoured by the US, was the law of the high seas, whereby vessels are registered at a port of origin but the oceans themselves are international and free.
We have an exceptionally fine pea souper here in the capital this morning, but I'll do you the first favour of the day by desisting from gratutious fog metaphors.
The concept of a Northeast Passage was at first favoured by the English: it was thought that, although its entry was in high latitudes, it "turning itself, trendeth towards the southeast…and stretcheth directly to Cathay".
The first favour Darling may have done is to stop us being obsessed by the daily drip-feed of bad news indicators and instead resign ourselves to the reality – that of a tough few years.
On the other hand, platelets are active players in pathogen clearance, leading to the possibility that a low platelet count and platelet function alteration may first favour infection.
The first favours the positive strand (coding) of the transcript.
Less than a third favour a "black-yellow" partnership of the CDU and the FDP.
And here the Nobel prize will help Mr Gao perform a second favour: that of changing the outside world's literary view of his homeland.
While two-thirds favour it, the timing is less certain: only 36% say it will happen some time, and over a quarter of these think it will take more than 20 years.
