Sentence examples for has won favor from inspiring English sources

The measure has won favor in polls, as Mr. Lee's power brokers have worked to pressure his opponents, notably Jeff Adachi, the public defender of San Francisco and the author of an opposing pension reform plan.

The Dutch audience has been very loyal to the company, however, and over the years Mr. Audi has won favor with edgy new works by living composers as well as a range of works from the classical opera repertoire.

At least one famous advocate of the open-plan office, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York, is not backing down, and it seems that the wall-free "bullpen" he set up in City Hall has won favor with many who use it.

And that architect, whose design for the eight-floor building at 55th Street and Ninth Avenue in Manhattan has won favor with Ailey board members, has never designed a building for dance or any other large institutional building of this kind.

Bolsonaro has won favor across the social and economic spectrum, as people fed up with violence and corruption see him as the sort of savior Brazil needs.

Besigye urged the international community to denounce the poll win by Museveni, who has won favor with the West by sending Ugandan troops to Somalia to battle Islamist militants with ties to al Qaeda.

Still, Vietnam seems to have won favor as an alternative to China for foreign investors.

If Mr. Panetta's warnings about defense cuts have won favor among generals, they fit a pattern of adapting to whatever institution he runs.

Mr. Hatoyama appeared to have won favor with Japan's closest neighbors by emphasizing his desire to assuage sensitivities over Tokyo's history of invasion and occupation in the region before and during World War II.

Two possible successors whose names have won favor with supporters in the Church of England, traditionally the mother church of the union, have been John Sentamu, 62, the archbishop of York, who is the Church of England's most senior bishop after Archbishop Williams, and Richard Chartres, 64, the bishop of London.

By the turn of the century, though, mechanicals had won favor among collectors who prized their antediluvian complexity.