Sentence examples for in favour of projects from inspiring English sources

Farsighted investments were typically neglected in favour of projects dedicated to resource extraction.This history emphasises that the capitalism upon which Western wealth was built was not particularly laissez-faire.

This news seemed like the apogee of our fears (or fantasies) about big tech – companies that just can't wait to drop the façade of tepid consumerism in favour of projects that wouldn't look out of place in the prologue to a sci-fi epic.

A Wilton-based consortium has missed out on a share of up to £1bn of government money in favour of projects in Aberdeenshire and Yorkshire.

The two effects (the internal, perceived one and the external one) must not be associated also with a further measure of "accessibility" to avoid double counting in favour of projects.

The intriguing fact about the RHI is that synchronous touch, which weighs in favour of projecting touch to the rubber hand, can dominate the other kinds of evidence, all of which weigh against projecting touch to the rubber hand.

Special tax breaks for FDI may militate against such stability and run a far greater risk, too, of distorting FDI decisions in favour of inefficient projects.

While boom governments scandalously ignored the health service and secondary education in favour of "prestige" projects (more building), the arts and third-level education benefited, and these dividends may continue.

The property advisor, which has acquired the most office space for firms in the capital over the past six years, said new office space developments were being neglected in favour of housing projects.

Like Under the Skin, The Zero Theorem has been jostling for production time for several years, but Gilliam – no stranger to the abandoned and/or postponed project – was forced to halt it in favour of another project, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, itself an attempt to restart a previously abandoned film, that was in turn called off again last year.

The controversial High Speed Two (HS2) rail project has received one of its most damning assessments yet – just days after the Prime Minister called for a fightback in favour of the project – with the Department of Transport accused of basing  projections on "fragile numbers, out of date data and assumptions that do not reflect real life".

There were 11 submissions in favour of the project.