Sentence examples for interest in favour from inspiring English sources

The houses were meant to draw money from millions of pious Turks who shunned sinful interest in favour of gold.

It said that because the two self-audits now due to be released post-date the HMIP reports, "there is a strong public interest in favour of disclosure in order to reveal whether, according to the contractors' own accounts, the operations of these IRCs improved".

My father faced a daunting task: official figures put Senegalese adult literacy rates at 60%, and although Serer is the third most popular language spoken by roughly 15% of the country, the younger generation is losing interest in favour of Wolof or French.

Koht argued that the peasant movement had abandoned the cause of class interest in favour of universal rights and social reforms.

Mainly female graduates change their interest in favour of other specialties.

The research team has no economical interest in favour of or against vitamin D supplementation.

Perhaps it is: but no more naïve than thinking anybody will forsake measurable self-interest in favour of service to our beautiful world.

Similarly, it has been, and will continue to prove, impossible to convince the fossil fuel-reliant economies like Russia and the oil producing nations of the Middle East to sacrifice supposed national economic self-interest in favour of the future wellbeing of human and other species.

It often argues that governments should put aside narrow national interests in favour of global concerns.

Some in the Thimphu elite fear electoral democracy, worrying that it may one day threaten their interests in favour of the poor rural majority.

Speaking at the company's annual "Big Tent" event, Miliband pointed to the letter written by founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 2004 in which they said they would sometimes ignore short-term interests in favour of the long term.