Sentence examples for hitherto favoured from inspiring English sources

Over the past week, several leaders of the mystical Sufi trend of Islam, hitherto favoured for its apolitical approach, called on their acolytes to join or help the jihad.A heavy hand makes heavy workThe Americans decline to reveal their rules of engagement.

Increasingly, too, this money is flowing into start-up companies rather than to the relatively mature firms that Europe's venture capitalists have favoured hitherto.

Sixty-five yeago ago, Britain played an essential role in forging the post-war international consensus, which favoured the establishment of the United Nations and ushered in a hitherto unknown period of peace and prosperity in Europe.

Favoured at the courts, they had great freedom of speech, occasionally intervening even in the political arena, but their great achievement was to create around the ladies of the court an aura of cultivation and amenity that nothing had hitherto approached.

Circumstances also favoured militarism.

South Africa is also favoured.

Circumstances favoured Brezhnev.

Social change favoured it too.

"Boring" banks are now favoured.

Western routes, favoured by Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey and America.

Carnegie had favoured public libraries.