Sentence examples for general favour from inspiring English sources

The system that has enjoyed the longest general favour and seems to be about as useful as any other divides typefaces into four classifications.

This neutralist attitude, however, finds little general favour; for most thinking people find it necessary to choose whether to go all the way with science, at the cost of abandoning religion and even morals, or to stick to a religious or moral world outlook even if it means treating scientific claims with some reserve.

Economists, in general, favour this approach on the grounds that the approach provides for effective and efficient use of scarce public funds: parents choose the most attractive ECEC service and the inefficient suppliers are weeded out.

To cause harm to another is also not a sufficient condition of legal responsibility, even in the eyes of those, such as the early Epstein, who would in general favour making agents strictly liable for the harm they cause.

When at a late period of the convention it was deemed advisable, that there should be a vice president, the propriety of retaining him, as presiding officer of the senate, seems to have met with general favour, eight states voting in the affirmative, and two only in the negative.

The rarity of the BHV-1 infection in Finland indicates an introduction in the late sixties, despite the fact that herd management practices do not in general favour the spread of infectious agents.

In war, he trusted his military experts and in general favoured the view that victory could be won only on the Western Front.

It seems every DC age has had its scandal, with the last half-century bringing us JFK's serial rutting, Watergate, Monica Lewinsky's refrigerated dress and the recent revelation that Eliot Spitzer, the crusading New York attorney general, favoured Washington for his trysts with a $5,000-a-night hooker.

But he leaned with especial weight upon Hamilton, who supported his scheme for the federal assumption of state debts, took his view that the bill establishing the Bank of the United States was constitutional, and in general favoured strengthening the authority of the federal government.

First, with only 48% of the eligible population having completed survey questionnaires, this presents a major problem in terms of self-selection, a process which in general favours females (Bynner et al, 1997; Prescott-Clarke and Primatesta, 1998).

On this regard, differences into the genetic background may be due to a replication slippage resulting in the loss of repeat units during meiosis or recombination events (putatively dependent on the simultaneous presence of additional genetic factors or, more in general, favouring genomic backgrounds).