Sentence examples for smallest favour from inspiring English sources

McCloud's celebrity means that "doors are opened a little more quickly", but also that "it is very important for local authorities not to be seen to be granting us the smallest favour.

"Simon, one small favour.

At this point Cohen thought, if the US was asking Kuwait for this small favour, it was sure to be granted.

But when this small favour snowballs into an incident of national security, his wife Lily must fight to prevent her family's doom.

Moreover, he has always expressed his admiration for those stories in which the routine exercise of my professional skills has found some small favour with the reading public".

The American-born artist, dandy, self-publicist and contrarian James McNeill Whistler was asked by one of his most valuable patrons, the millionaire Liverpool shipping magnate F R Leyland, to do him a small favour.

A monument to the fallen in the uprising, also commissioned in 1814 by the provisional government, "was stopped by Ferdinand VII, in whose eyes the senators and heroes of the war of independence found small favour, on account of their reforming tendencies".

Really any small favour that makes their life a bit easier will be appreciated.

They joked, or offered small favours.

As their alliance blossomed, Marcos rewarded him with small favours, such as dominance over the country's coconut industry.

Gossip and small favours were exchanged, as would be typical in any friendship; at De Souza's prompting, a place opened up on a ministerial visit to China for Harford.