Sentence examples for keep favoured from inspiring English sources

Tales of local abuses are so commonplace that many people tune them out.Rock the voteThe Li family's most personal stand-off with officials was over village elections nominally democratic in China but almost always rigged to keep favoured officials in power.

Was he doing this to keep favour with his old medical school?" It would seem so.

The emphasis for the new under-13 accounts really is on education, since Apple stands to gain a lot from achieving widespread purchase in schools, so it will likely do all it can to keep favour with parents and teachers.

A wonderful actress sells her body to keep in favour with a repulsive culture boss, then struggles in remorse to find her 'real self' - is it on stage, in communion with her Publikum, or at home with the lover she is betraying?

Hermanez is perhaps mostly associated with his grooving and tribal-flecked tech-house productions, which keep finding favours with the greats like Luciano, Loco Dice and Reboot, to name a few.

"Why does the court keep ruling in favour of the claimants?

No one expects a nation to act for the common good, but it seems doubtful that India's ban is even in its own narrow interests.Trying to keep prices low favours textile makers but is bad for farmers who grow the stuff.

Ireland has also been promised that it will keep its commissioner.The odds favour a yes vote.

And it's in capitalists' favour to keep things like that because then people keep buying shit to make them happy, which of course never makes them happy because all they're looking for in the first place is connection.

Theobald had a number of reasons for defying the king: chiefly his obedience to the pope's order commanding his attendance, but also to keep the papacy from favouring the newly elected Archbishop of York, Henry Murdac, in the disputes between York and Canterbury.

On April 14th William Hill favoured Labour to keep Attlee's seat but only just.