Sentence examples for lose favour from inspiring English sources
After Ferdinand's marriage to Maria Carolina, the daughter of Maria Theresa, Tanucci began to lose favour with the disengaged, weak monarch.
With these improvements, the filament lamp became the principal form of electric lamp for domestic use until it began to lose favour to the more-efficient fluorescent lamp.
They are certainly not vital, he says, for Liberty Media, which this month spent $7.9 billion buying QVC, a shopping channel.The bidders gain and lose favour every week.
Priestley's dramatic output began to lose favour (like Rattigan's) as the era of Beckett and Osborne approached; Jacquetta had a big success with her book A Land.
The HDZ initially based its ideology on Croatian nationalism and the struggle for independence, but it began to lose favour after the war ended in 1995 and the population felt the pain of economic collapse.
But over the years the dark green camouflage shoes lost their shine and "began to lose favour due to bad ventilation leading to foot odour", Chinese state media reported in 2010.
For those who lost favour, though, life could be difficult.
He was soon dismissed, however, having lost favour with Charles II.
This benign view of competition, never very realistic, had gradually lost favour.
Reprints Related items Politics: Trust the localsJan 25th 2007The notion of Britishness itself is losing favour.
And despite the referendum results, the Brothers may be losing favour.
