At the beginning of the planning process, for instance, you must carefully avoid favoring what may seem to be the right scenario or the right strategy.
It's a no-brainer to go for the package that favors what everyone likes the most.
The question is which, and what the reasons are for favoring this or that answer.
Nanette Asimov, an education reporter, joined with dozens of colleagues in supporting a petition that, she said, declared that "the appearance of trading our integrity for favors is what we abhor".
He gave people respectable reasons to vote for a candidate they favored for what they might have worried were not such respectable reasons.
The rhetoric of both parties has been full of words like "principle" and "process" that make an implicit claim: We are not asking for what favors our side but for what is required by a nonpartisan standard of fairness.
Even if you somehow manage to look past Trump's outrageous call for mass deportation, there is no consensus for the course of action favored by what's left of the party establishment, which would be to give undocumented migrants some kind of legal status.
Democrats would certainly like attitudes to shift in their favor for what has emerged as yet another party line issue.
"I am really happy because it feels like it is returning the favor for what they did not only with my son, but with the thousands of other teachers they have taught," Nakasone said.
Discussing normal trade treatment for China, an issue then known as M.F.N. (for "most favored nation"), Clinton warned what would happen if Congress did not respond to his plea to vote to renew the normal treatment.
In a presentation to employees, it announced that it would retire the red capital X that has dominated its logo for 40 years in favor of what Richard Wergan, vice president for advertising, calls "a brand identity that reflects the Xerox of today".
