Sentence examples for take favours from inspiring English sources

Every step we take favours freedom, living conditions and income.

He explains how he would take favours from one and in return rat out others, and often committed his own crimes on the side.

Do not take favours or help from strangers, especially while you go to exchange money.

Members of the Convention have accused Social Democrats of taking favours from the state before they split from the ex-communists in 1991.

The mayor, played with genial used-car salesman brio by Jeremy Renner, who incidentally sports another of the film's outrageous hairstyles, becomes a sort of friend of Irv and he feels bad about tricking someone with whom he has broken bread and quoted the Bible: "When you are offered a favour or money, take the favour, not the money.

She testified against the phone-hacking that made her family's life a misery, revealing all sorts of lurid personal stuff, and about Murdoch himself, revealing quite extraordinary tales of how she had sung at his wedding to Wendi Deng, and been convinced to take "press favours" in lieu of payment.

This is not just a matter of sheer beauty but of precision, and an understanding by Mark Lee, his cinematographer, of the long takes Hou favours.

This approach is taken by, for example, Jackson et al. (2012) who test whether informal favours take place across edges that are supported (i.e. that nodes exchanging a favour have a common neighbour), which is the prediction of their theoretical model.

Something of the sort is almost certain in an election which few voters take seriously, which favours protest votes and which tends to have low turnouts.

But yesterday the decision was taken in favour of security, and that's right".

But, as Ms Neilson points out, in 16th-century Italy when courtesans and aristocrats often dressed alike noblewomen had also taken to favouring yellow.The lavish ruby and pearl jewel in Antea's hair, has been cited as proof that the sitter was a noble young bride.