Sentence examples for seen as favored from inspiring English sources

Some American policy makers fear that a nationwide ballot right now would bring out the most radical elements in the electorate, ready and able to exploit growing Iraqi resentments toward any candidates seen as favored by the United States.

"While the chairman is under siege, it would be wrong to criticize him, that would only serve Israel and America," said Mr. Dahlan, who has been widely seen as favored by the C.I.A., with which he cooperated in the early stages of trying to carry out the now moribund Oslo peace accords.

A fiscal conservative, he is seen as favoring free market economics and deregulation.

Now, he said, he would be seen as favoring the Palestinians.

The frustration has grown acute in Boston, where Mr. Levine is at times seen as favoring the Met, his longstanding home.

Decades of neglect by a central government seen as favoring other regions is helping Islamists find fertile ground in Maan.

She is seen as favoring the German bank because she believes this would boost competition in the Dutch banking sector.

The final standards, which will take effect next year, are widely seen as favoring the industry's big players.

All of them failed, in part because all were seen as favoring a particular group within Lebanon's political mosaic.

Mr. Kaieda is seen as favoring slightly more distance from Washington, calling for closer ties with China, a position also long favored by Mr. Ozawa.

When President Mwai Kibaki's administration in the 2000s came to be seen as favoring the Kikuyu, resentment was expressed in increasingly ethnic terms.