Sentence examples for said to favour from inspiring English sources

He is said to favour a woman.

Some army and palace factions are said to favour the princess as the next ruler.

And Petrobras itself is said to favour a lower requirement for national content.

Mr Zedillo is said to favour the as-yet-undeclared Francisco Labastida, his interior minister.

Progressives are said to favour government intervention while conservatives tend to favour market outcomes.

Like his boss, he is said to favour jeans, trainers, T-shirt and a polo-neck sweater.

Technological advances were said to further favour the defense, in that extremely precise and comparatively simple guided weapons could be used to take on tanks and high-performance aircraft, the central actors in any offensive.

After several generations, many more parasites with enhanced virulence will exist, and this genotype can be said to be favoured by natural selection.

Some German banks are already reportedly preparing to raise billions from private sources, an option said to be favoured by the German chancellor, Angela Merkel.

One is said to be favoured by the gods if one is born with a long finger, which makes the shaping of kibbeh easier.

He is also said to be favoured by Rinat Akhmetov, Ukraine's richest tycoon and Mr Yanukovich's sponsor.Yet part of the new president's entourage feels this would be too much of a concession to a losing party.