Sentence examples for for favour from inspiring English sources

Each browser vied for favour with web publishers, begging them to optimise their pages for one browser or the other.

There is no transparency in the process – you simply email a note of interest in teaching, and pray for favour.

Care and Ben Youngs spent the Stuart Lancaster era jockeying for favour at scrum-half, both getting a run of games and then giving way to the other.

A trip to a bakery for the earlier bread riots in 2008 gives rise to an essay on how the state pulls the levers of the economy for favour, from subsidising flour to import deals to increase international pull.

Such men can live an otherwise respectable life since they see sex as a legitimate quid pro quo for favour, part of ordinary power dynamics and not venal at all.

In Peshawar's increasingly religiously-motivated milieu, the presence of hijras – be they dancers or sex workers – is frowned upon and politicians vie for favour by pushing them out of their homes and worksites.

The statements were coded for the clinical information to which they referred and for favouring or not favouring prescription.

FOR most of the past two centuries, one of the functions of Greek politics was to provide a network for favour-swapping and patronage.

A prime example is Mr Berlusconi, whose business success was based largely on the help and protection of certain Italian politicians.This cultural preference for favour-seeking and the creation of protected monopolies over free-market competition could take a long time to shift.

Existing concessions are often criticised for favouring higher income earners.

To ask for favours and be in someone's debt.