Sentence examples for taking favours from inspiring English sources

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

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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.

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.

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.

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.

The announcement by the Russian president Dmitry Medvedev that he favours taking a back seat and recommending his predecessor, Vladimir Putin, to succeed him in 2012 should hardly come as a surprise.

Riyad Hijab, a former Syrian prime minister and head of the opposition higher negotiations committee, favours taking part in the talks, the sources said, adding that Saudi Arabia was also exerting heavy pressure on the Syrians to go to Geneva.

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.

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