Sentence examples for obtain favour from inspiring English sources

Empirical studies argue that companies engage in voluntary environmental disclosure practices to reduce this expectation gap and obtain favour with stakeholders or the society within which they operate (O'Donovan 2002; Lindblom 1994).

In the resumed conspiracy trial, however, the jury acquitted Sinclair of the major charge, ruling that the government had not proved that the gifts had been given in order to obtain favours for Sinclair.

Gaveston also began to exploit his relationship with the King more ostentatiously, obtaining favours and appointments for his friends and servants.

This position did not of course obtain much favour with contemporary economic theory.

It also says some officers abuse their power to obtain sexual favours.

Forced to leave the city in 1638 because of a duel with the painter Sebastián de Llano y Valdés, he fled to Madrid and obtained the favour of the court.

When all 15 trials (4465 patients) are taken together a highly significant (p = 0.004) advantage of survival is obtained in favour of combination therapy.

It is easy, he argues, to obtain evidence in favour of virtually any theory, and he consequently holds that such 'corroboration', as he terms it, should count scientifically only if it is the positive result of a genuinely 'risky' prediction, which might conceivably have been false.

Now, Modi et al. have used in vivo imaging in awake mice to obtain evidence in favour of the second option.

Still, the authors approached the study and the data scientifically and did not in any way distort data to obtain results in favour of the vaccine.

A law professor was sentenced to five months in jail in Singapore for obtaining sexual favours and gifts from a female student in exchange for better grades.