Sentence examples for major favor from inspiring English sources

Then fate intervened, doing Woodson a major favor.

Ron had once done a major favor for the policeman's mother, and in return her son, Tommy the cop, got the ashes and the piece of glass for Ron.

"We've done this guy a major favor," Doug said, going on to offer a few recommendations for prompt bar service, in order of advisability: * Seek out the shortest people and get behind them -- same strategy as at a rock concert.

Seniors always constitute a disproportionate share of midterm electorates, and Democrats concerned about next year's congressional contests would do themselves a major favor by passing a bill that reduced the costs of seniors' medications.

Poe's one-year stint in Atlanta appears to be coming to an end, but he did himself a major favor by putting up one of the best performances of his career.

He also asked the queen for a major favor.

However, few major favors are sought these days.

Mr. Baydar wrote about how the owners of the Turkish media have their fortunes in other areas, like banking and construction, and receive major favors in exchange for keeping their news offerings in line with government policy and sometimes with government propaganda.

It is intriguing that 32% of biology majors favored equal time in the science class to evolution, creationism, and intelligent design (Fig. 1a, choice B).

In contrast, 45.3% of nonmajors versus 32% of biology majors favored equal time in the science class to evolution, creationism, and intelligent design, and 46% of nonmajors versus 29.1% of biology majors preferred not to comment on their willingness to discuss evolution or creationism openly (Figs. 1a and 5a, choice B).

Indeed, it is even unclear whether the major banks favor this substitution.