Sentence examples for had favoured from inspiring English sources

Carnegie had favoured public libraries.

Circumstances had favoured Fiorentina.

Allardyce countered that fortune had favoured the Hornets with their goal.

Those forces had favoured the "superstar and the lucky", he said.

11.29am: Jay asks about the perception that News International had favoured status within Scotland Yard.

The New Yorker, which had favoured Salinger's stories, stalled with indecision.

At first Elizabeth, with her characteristic preference for consensus rather than confrontation, had favoured Neville Chamberlain's policy of appeasement.

Democrats had favoured the appointment of John Biggs, head of a large pension fund, and a known reformer.

However, Eroğlu, who had favoured independence for northern Cyprus over unification, insisted that negotiations would continue under his leadership.

Allied had favoured a £2.85 billion bid from brewer Whitbread over Punch's earlier and supposedly less certain £2.93 billion bid.

Orsini-Rosenberg had favoured another librettist over Da Ponte, and he was not inclined to make the production go smoothly.