Sentence examples for started to favor from inspiring English sources

Slowly, he started to favor certain numbers.

The computer industry, facing staggering energy costs, has started to favor the low-power designs Mr. Hipp promoted.

Technology stocks, which have had a run-up as investors started to favor the sector again, were mixed.

At the same time, buyers, particularly young ones, started to favor downtown living over long commutes on Toronto's increasingly congested roads and overtaxed subway and commuter train system.

But by 1980 the band's fortunes plummeted when the recording business in Bamako started to favor griot pop, singers backed with drum machines and interchangeable accompanists.

At the same time, studios have started to favor producers who come with financial backing of their own, like Thomas Tull, whose Legendary Pictures joined with Warner to shoulder the cost of "The Town" and provide creative input.

Even globes are now starting to favor the Democrats.

But after a year or two of relative restraint, their boards are starting to favor them over shareholders again.

Mr. Swanson said that based on recent history, he believed "the market will also start to favor dividend-paying stocks".

V. S. Ramachandran, in his book "The Tell-Tale Brain," likened this to a behavioral experiment: if a rat is rewarded for choosing a rectangle over a square, it will learn to respond to "rectangularity" and start to favor rectangles in general.

Analysts say young people in China are even starting to favor free laptop-viewing over TV sets, in part as a way to make an end run around regulators, who often bar state-run TV networks from broadcasting shows that do not meet the approval of the Communist Party.