Sentence examples for once favoured from inspiring English sources

The new governor, Timothy Kaine, once favoured such a freeze.

He offers an odd mixture of pragmatism (he once favoured compulsory health insurance) and demagoguery.

Many who once favoured moderation and gradual reforms slowly became radicalised.

What explains this curious death of an idea once favoured by the men at the top of their two parties?

In the words of Paddy Ashdown [who once favoured unilateral nuclear disarmament], the UK's nuclear deterrent is a monstrous folly.

Although they once favoured expulsion, they were now left without their major source of income, the composition fines for Moorish practices that they imposed on the Morisco villages.

Congress itself is divided and Mr Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party though once favouring reforms, looks less sure of itself these days.Politics seems, by and large, to be on the liberalisers' side.

So the man who was once, bizarrely, favoured to be editor of The Independent has been censured by the Press Complaints Commission for dressing up opinion as fact.

Curiosity will probe these sediments for evidence that past environments on Mars could once have favoured microbial life.

While the Conservatives did not secure an overall majority in the 2010 general election, David Cameron's party regained Lincoln as the swingometer once again favoured the Tories.

Curiosity - also called the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) - will probe these sediments for evidence that past environments on Mars could once have favoured microbial life.