Sentence examples for future favours from inspiring English sources

(He freely admits that, as a businessman, he, too, lavished campaign contributions on politicians in hope of future favours).

Institutional shareholders and corporate bosses were plied with IPO allocations in return for inflated commissions and future favours.

He took this second, free swing on May 30th naming Mr Zoellick to the job at last.The world's poor will hope the position was given in reward for past loyalties, not in expectation of future favours.

For every client there is a patron, someone of higher rank who offers help and protection in return for future favours: Julius Caesar, a successful lawyer long before he was a successful general, built his political career on his network of grateful clients whom he had helped in the notoriously combative courts of the late Roman republic.

"But when you pull together all the evidence – archaeological, epigraphic and literary – it is overwhelming and, we believe, conclusive: they did kill their children, and on the evidence of the inscriptions, not just as an offering for future favours but fulfilling a promise that had already been made.

Stephen La Rivière, author of Filmed in Supermarionation: A History of the Future, favours "More Haste Less Speed": describing the series finale as "wonderfully quirky" and "glorious", he sees the counterfeiting plot as being reminiscent of the "gentler, earlier days of Supercar", also praising Keith Alexander for his voice acting of the part of the elderly Lady Hazlewell.

If radical Islam, with which these experts tell us we should be at war, encompasses all those who are not enamoured of secular society, and who espouse a vision of their societies grounded in the values of Islam, then these experts are advocating a war with Islam - because Islam is the vision for their future favoured by many Muslims.

But this is a poor understanding of history that does the future no favours.

Mr Osborne will declare: "The challenge is formidable, but the future will favour the bold.

A massive motion capture convert, Robert Zemeckis has ditched live action dross like Back To The Future in favour of lots of movies with disembodied, strangely weightless characters.

Osborne will issue a similar call, claiming the future will favour the bold, adding: "If we are bold enough the prize will be worth the effort: nothing less than a new model of sustainable growth".