Sentence examples for first unfavourable from inspiring English sources

A moderate growth of ivy is not injurious to trees; still, the tendency is from the first unfavourable to the prosperity of the tree, and at a certain stage it becomes deadly.

McCartney largely directed the film, which brought the group their first unfavourable critical response.

Time to progression (TTP) was estimated from the first day of D/F application to the first unfavourable event (e.g. radiographically documented tumour recurrence or progression or death).

Event-free survival (EFS) was defined as the interval between the date of the first endovesical instillation and the first unfavourable event, superficial disease, progression to infiltrating disease or the last visit.

Third, unfavourable mutations are expected to accumulate because selection operates less efficiently in small populations.

In its abstract, the committee contrasts two views of PFPs: one favourable, the second distinctly unfavourable.

In the third year, unfavourable conditions for disease development resulted in low disease levels and no effect or interaction among variables was observed.

First, the average unfavourable decision (unfavourable to the prisoner, that is) took less time to arrive at (5.2 minutes) than the average favourable one (7.4 minutes).

Our first impressions were unfavourable.

Second, the extremely unfavourable prognosis for GBM patients correlates with intrinsic resistance to apoptosis of GBM cells.

So they have aimed their critique at India's national amour propre by drawing unfavourable comparisons, first with the great rival China but even more embarrassingly with a string of south Asian neighbours.