Sentence examples for life favour from inspiring English sources

Gemini The propitious stars prevailing in your personal life favour relationships that are ambiguous or half-broken being set to rights.

When I was 20, my partner was shocked to hear I'd never played Final Fantasy VII, and decided to do me a huge life favour by playing it with me.

Portuguese traditionally have prized a simple and unostentatious life, favouring the rural over the urban and the traditional to the modern, where a fine meal might consist of carne de porco à Alentejana (lean pork stuffed with clams), thick-crusted bread, and dark wine.

Hence, on the one hand, the facts of Greek intellectual life "favoured systematically exploring the arguments on both sides of fundamental questions" (in order to prove your adversaries wrong), something which "may well have contributed to a readiness not merely to air but to maintain the contradictory of what might pass as a commonsensical view".

So life may favour the ultra-conservative.

Lila never wholly discards her old life in favour of the new.

Like Clunes, Quentin has also escaped city life in favour of a simpler existence on a farm in Devon with her husband and kids.

Some critics considered the decade the "twilight period in Russian literature," because of the departure from traditional psychological novels about contemporary life in favour of detective novels.

These have seen many older people turn their backs on annuities – products that provide a retirement income for life – in favour of investment products such as income drawdown.

No one figure in recent American history has done more to change the face of American political life in favour of the Republican agenda.

After the affair with Cadogan ends in tragedy, she relinquishes the idea of a private life in favour of life as an explorer, archaeologist and writer, and later a diplomat.