Sentence examples for roles in favour from inspiring English sources

Despite his rugged good looks, Schell eschewed leading-man roles in favour of more-complex individuals, many of whom were drawn from the Nazi era.

Spectacular worldwide box-office smash Frozen may have mined gold from a similarly-pitched, magically-themed tale of medieval princesses, but it did so by radically jettisoning outdated attitudes towards romance and defined gender roles in favour of barmy snowman sidekicks and kick-ass girl-power show tunes.

In the early hours of one party conference, while most journalists and MPs had long-since abandoned their professional roles in favour of a drink and a gossip, Mr Alexander continued to prowl the bar, seeking to persuade those present of the merits of a single currency.

Oldman initially turned down the role in favour of theatre work, but was convinced to change his mind and put in an intense, memorable performance.

With their increased preference for market-oriented enterprise, governments have relinquished much of their service-provision role in favour of managing networks of subcontractors, including both for-profit and nonprofit firms.

Some of the best moments in the show come from its host of its first two seasons, Anderson Cooper, who forgoed the traditional reality show host role in favour of being an active participant.

Ms. Bonkoungou congratulated Mr. Ban for playing a key role in favour of improved education around the world, and especially in Africa.

The few calls for men to play a role in favour of prevention of maternal mortality [ 37- 39] have not been accompanied by larger scale programmes that address maternal morbidity through working with men.

The eligibility criteria adopted to assess polygeneration plants as "highly efficient" can play a determinant role in favouring or discouraging the market growth of polygeneration systems, especially for buildings applications where economic viability is often more difficult to achieve.

Although not required for early stages of Th17 development, as naïve T cells express little or no IL-23R [6], IL-23/IL-23R signalling plays a critical role in favouring terminal differentiation, maintenance and pathogenicity of effector Th17 cells [28], with IL-23 driving local Th17 effector response.

Previous fluoroquinolone use demonstrated a clear role in favouring Pseudomonas aeruginosa pneumonia and linezolid in Acinetobacter baumannii pneumonia (Table 1).