Sentence examples for having been favoured from inspiring English sources

The club's decline was hastened by it having been favoured by the notorious dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.

So we have namechecks here for the Velos 145 ruler, the Rexel 56 range of staples (still dominant in the market), and the Blackwing 602 pencil, launched by the firm of Eberhard Faber 1934 and discontinued in 1998, despite having been favoured by John Steinbeck.

The name Greater Manchester was adopted, having been favoured over Selnec by the local population.

Brussels insiders with little to lose have been favoured.

Neither the Germans nor the Italians have been favoured by Mr Obama more than the French.

It has been favoured for years by the foreign ministry and tourist authorities.

The Lamu archipelago has been favoured for its remoteness by celebrities, including Sienna Miller and Jude Law.

(The first was the rejection of the Data Retention directive, which had been favoured particularly by the UK government).

But I don't feel if one had been favoured more than the other one of us would have won the championship.

The main reasons undergraduates have been favoured in the past are that they are cheap, and easy for academics to recruit.

Another Tory donor, Theodore Agnew, who set up a group of academies in Norfolk, was believed to have been favoured by Mr Gove.