Sentence examples for rather favoured from inspiring English sources

Indeed, the nobility rather favoured turkey because it was nicer to eat than peacock, which tells you exactly how awful roast peacock must be.

While in August last year, Spil Games extended its reach to mobile through support for HTML5, which included a developer contest with terms that rather favoured Spil.

For instance, dentists assumed that the former tended to wake up late because of not having a steady job; consequently, they avoided booking them early mornings and rather favoured the middle of the day.

Thus, the application of a cluster-randomised community-based trial rather favoured the project implementation as it allowed random allocation of the intervention across communities, minimising possible grievances and complaints.

Our results demonstrate that in the lesions the COMP deficiency rather favoured the extent of cartilaginous metaplasia: there was a 100% increase in the plaque (p = 0.001) and a 177% increase in the media of ApoE/COMP double knockouts compared to ApoE knockout mice (p = 0.003) (Table 1, Suppl. Tab. 2, Suppl. Fig. 4).

Rather, the favoured model is that 5mC is progressively oxidized to generate intermediates, facilitated by the Ten-Eleven-Translocation (TET) proteins, and these intermediates are subsequently converted either by DNA repair or replication dilution to cytosine (Kohli and Zhang, 2013).

Spenser operated in the criminal backwater of Boston, in Parker's home state of Massachusetts, rather than the favoured crime-fiction locations of New York and Los Angeles.

He played on the blind-side flank rather than his favoured No 8 position, but he was used in the manner of a midfield sweeper; he also showed he is learning the art of the off-load, that not every opponent needs to be crushed into the turf.

Big Apple blues India's poor law ReprintsAs financial instruments go, bearer passbooks are rather old-fashioned, favoured by pensioners, perhaps as a way of dodging inheritance taxes, and by southerners, wary of anything that smacks of sophistication or of being too far from cash.

These are arranged by size, form and colour – "rhythm" was the favoured word – rather than period or artist.

Around the world, the tax deductibility of interest payments has encouraged a greater reliance on debt rather than equity and favoured private-equity firms.