Sentence examples for simply favored from inspiring English sources

From her notes, the source of a great new book — "The Extraordinary Mark Twain" — you can conclude either that he was the best father who ever lived, or that he was simply favored by his era, that time before muckraking memoirs and celebrity-daughter tell-alls.

By challenging the more passive view of natural selection in which an environmental change simply favored elephants with stronger teeth the study uses fossil evidence to show that the animals' own behavior may have helped shape their evolutionary destiny.

The United States does not have a zero-sum approach to the conflict simply favoring Israel.

One thing the U.S. ought to do is change our tax code in a way that favors domestic investment rather than simply favoring companies moving profits offshore.

That has allowed Europeans to claim, inaccurately, that this is about politics, and that they are simply favoring poor Latin American banana exporters.

Natural selection simply favors gene versions that perform better — and in the case of resisting Roundup, a wide variety of different mutations and physiological mechanisms have proved useful for the task and have been favored in different weed lineages.

While adults think teenagers use these platforms primarily for "sexting," the truth is more likely that teenagers simply favor a platform that does not broadcast their experiences to the world and preserve them forever.

Mr. Gelb's commitment to promoting gifted singers who are also persuasive actors has sometimes been confused with the practice — deplored mostly in theory by opera lovers — of simply favoring looks over voice.

We won't evolve into bulbous-brained, spindly-bodied homunculi because biological evolution is not a force that pushes us to greater intelligence and wisdom; it simply favors variants that out-reproduce their rivals in some environments.

In Study 2 we rule out an alternative explanation that children simply favor pictures containing their idiosyncratic preferences by discovering that 6 year olds, but not 4 year olds chose a picture they mistakenly believed contained their idea, over a picture that contained their idiosyncratic preferences.

However, it's important to remember that, even in this case, selection has no foresight and is not "aiming" at any outcome; it is simply favoring the reproducing units that are best at leaving copies of themselves in the next generation.