Sentence examples for instance in favour of from inspiring English sources

I've been known to avoid something delicious (cassoulet in Toulouse, for instance) in favour of something not quite so alluring (raw calves' brains), because that's what will get most "likes" for my bravery.

He was not, for instance, in favour of getting rid of all local education authorities or forcing all schools to become academies, as Gove's successor, Nicky Morgan, tried to do earlier this year before she dropped the plan because of huge opposition.

He voted, for instance, in favour of the 1999 bill that abolished Glass-Steagall and let retail and investment banks go into each others' businesses.The terms of tradeWhile free trade is linked more philosophically than directly to the deregulation that has helped to spawn the current financial crisis, its popularity has also suffered under the economic pressures of recent years.

He is not, for instance, in favour of tearing down the Berlin Wall altogether, arguing that a plague of drugs and AIDS might then sweep into East Germany.Mr Modrow was this week putting together a new government, aiming to include in it some representatives of newly assertive parties like the Liberal Democrats, which hitherto have been mere appendages of the communist party.

Kingston's chief executive Malcolm Fallen said the council has always been supportive of management's plans, for instance voting in favour of its £169m acquisition of IT services firm Omnetica in late 2004.

Producers of digital content, for instance, often argue in favour of strict network-neutrality rules, which make distributing their wares easier.

This means that if, for instance, parents are in favour of adaptation and peers reject it, a higher adaptation due to parents' influence raises the utility from effort, which in turn is curbed by the negative impact of rising peers' aversion to adjustment.

However in practice it often desirable to associate an Argument with more than one Candidate, for instance an Argument in favour of one Candidate may be an Argument against another.

For instance, no one is in favour of a separate Flemish and Walloon army, so long as defence doesn't become a centralised European affair.

Meanwhile, others have been moved to call for the smelling salts after Warren failed to deploy their favoured clichés – the sweet science, for instance, or that noble art – in favour of the outrageous admission that his man (Chisora) was in it for the money.

For instance, Mr Bush is formally in favour of federal laws banning abortion and gay marriage; Mr Kerry is not.