Sentence examples for shared favours from inspiring English sources

Like most frontier towns, the place is a strange mixture of rampant individualism and collaboration: staff are borrowed, ideas shared, favours exchanged.

Backed by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, model, actress and Cambridge graduate Lily Cole has just launched a service among the university's students that offers a forum for sharing favours or skills.

In early 1963, however, stories circulated that he had had an affair with a prostitute, Christine Keeler, who had also shared her favours with Yevgeny Ivanov, the Soviet military attaché in London.

She stopped travelling with him because, for the last 20 years of her life, he shared his favours with a far more sophisticated and no less compliant Argentinian mistress who crisscrossed the globe at his side, providing services, principally boastful, energetic and violent sex, outside the scope of his mute, sad, stay-at-home wife.

His challengers defeated, Cecil was created a peer, 1st Baron Burghley, in 1571, and in 1572 he became a knight of the Garter and lord treasurer; he now shared royal favour on equal terms with Leicester.

Based on his own experiences, Sunday, Bloody Sunday (1971) starred Finch as a homosexual doctor in love with a young man who also shares his favours with a woman (Glenda Jackson).

But it is something of an odd place, prepared to vote Conservative massively in elections for Wandsworth Council but share its favours with Labour at a national level for a while.

An opinion poll by Asahi Shimbun, a national newspaper, showed that the percentage of those opposed to nuclear energy has risen to 41% from 28% in 2007 (women are the strongest opponents), though the share favouring the nuclear status quo barely fell from 53% to 51%.But despite the protests, there have been few signs of real debate.

Some said the disbursement of shares favoured the politically connected, many of whom immediately sold the shares at market price, reaping the arbitrage instead of holding on and increasing the Malay share of equity, which the policy was intended to do.

Conversely, land sharing strategies favoured the more widespread and common species, particularly if the area of wildlife-friendly agriculture is increased.

Indeed, several studies have shown that insects such as ants and bees sometimes ignore shared information in favour of what they individually know.