Sentence examples for in favour of absolute from inspiring English sources

David Cameron, July 2008 "Anybody who is guilty of serious knife crime will go to prison but I'm not in favour of absolute rules.

Unfortunately, draft rules of court hastily thrown together at the Ministry of Justice would set aside the overriding objective of our courts to do justice in favour of absolute secrecy in any case where national security is raised by ministers.

Schönborn is a conservative in matters of doctrine, but in favour of absolute honesty, especially as far as clearing up clerical sexual abuse is concerned, and wants to see the Church open to dialogue with the world as advocated by the Second Vatican Council.

It was earlier thought that animals sacrifice colour vision in favour of absolute sensitivity at night.

Furthermore, colour vision compromises sensitivity, and considering the small amount of light that is left for most whales or seals during foraging, colour vision may have been lost in favour of the absolute sensitivity of the visual system.

The detailed results shown with a large number of controls in Varnat et al (2009) have solved the controversy on the role of HH-GLI signalling in CCs in favour of an absolute requirement.

The absolute ban is gone, in favour of an almost-absolute ban.

While Leibniz had already paved the way for the conception of space and time as exclusively a matter of relations between events, Mach went still further in attacking the arguments of Newton in favour of a dynamic and absolute space and time.

Horner rejected that view, though, claiming: "To say we are not in favour of cost-saving is absolute nonsense".

As an author, I depend on there being some rules of the road when I negotiate with my publishers, and it's in every commercial creator's interest to try to find a moderate, coherent copyright rule that avoid dumb absolutes in favour of nuance and fairness.

In these modern times, the 60-year-old bachelor king has divested himself of his business interests and relinquished much of his power as absolute ruler in favour of a more representative, elected parliament in the run-up to his own coronation.