Sentence examples for lasting favourite from inspiring English sources

The exceptional beauty and graceful manner of the princess made her an immediate and lasting favourite with the British public.

Božena Němcová's novel Babička (1855; The Grandmother, also translated as Granny) became a lasting favourite with Czech readers, while the journalist and poet Karel Havlíček Borovský tried to acquaint the Czechs with some of the stark facts of political life.

In Paris he presented two ballerinas whom he had encouraged in Russia, Marfa Muraviyeva and Adele Grantzow, and he enriched the repertory of the Paris Opéra with two ballets that introduced a composer then new to the field of ballet, Léo Delibes: La Source (1866) and Coppélia (1870), a work that has become a lasting favourite.

But Sharpe pointed out that the last favourite to win the Booker was Coetzee with Disgrace in 1999.

Ladbrokes has had little success in predicting the winner in previous years, with Yann Martel's Life of Pi its last favourite to take the prize, six years ago.

And at last, my favourite character has a name: Isis, played – magisterially – by yellow labrador actor Ellie.

The last clear favourite to win was Hedgehunter in 2005, although Don't Push It (2010) was 10/1 joint favourite and Comply Or Die (2008) was joint 7/1 favourite.

A series of disastrous military attempts to subjugate the Irish culminated in a crisis of authority with her last great favourite, Robert Devereux, the proud Earl of Essex, who had undertaken to defeat rebel forces led by Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone.

Sir Nicholas, 65, best known for designing the International Terminal at Waterloo station in London and the Eden Project in Cornwall, had emerged as a last-minute favourite to be elected head of the institution by his artist peers.

Just seven of the last 50 favourites have won the Grand National, but two of those wins have come in the last five years.

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