Sentence examples for it favoured from inspiring English sources

The satnav claims to offer traffic assist, but I didn't notice an absence of traffic on the routes it favoured.

Or is it favoured in cases where the community is dominated by a few closely related taxa?

At its worst, it favoured form over content and inflated box-ticking pieties into multimillion-pound structures.

Late on September 14th, after a marathon meeting, the board of Banca Popolare Italiana (BPI) announced that it favoured the sale of its 29.5% stake in Antonveneta, Italy's ninth-largest bank, to ABN Amro, of the Netherlands, for about €2.5 billion ($3.1 billion).

Late on Wednesday September 14th, after a marathon meeting, the board of Banca Popolare Italiana (BPI) announced that it favoured the sale of its 29.5% stake in Antonveneta, Italy's ninth-largest bank, to ABN Amro of the Netherlands for about €2.5 billion ($3.1 billion).

In its response to the Assembly's Environment Committee it said it favoured the black route provided there is minimal impact on the environment, as they questioned the cost estimates of the blue route.

If you set up a supply of "free" money and give committees of the "great and good" a licence to spend it on favoured projects, a lot of it is bound to be wasted.But it would be a shame if the failure of the Dome, and even of a few other lottery-backed schemes, were completely to discredit the current splurge of public spending on the arts, heritage and sport.

It may of course still be right, but there are enough obvious problems with it and a severe lack of indication of anything like it in living species that to consider it the favoured hypothesis seems incongruous.

It has the additional benefit of being less invasive, making it the favoured method of treating abdominal aortic aneurysms in elderly and high-risk patients with multiple co-morbidities.

Its clean-cut image and easy availability made it the favoured tipple of celebrities like Courtney Love, Winona Rider, Heath Ledger, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Michael Jackson.

Spain is a storied country of stone castles, snowcapped mountains, vast monuments, and sophisticated cities, all of which have made it a favoured travel destination.