Unsurprisingly, English was the favored foreign language.
As we saw above, Quine appeals to pragmatic considerations to pick out a favored language and grammatical regimentation.
An early vote would give Speaker John A. Boehner more time to plan his next move: Whether to put the Senate-passed bill up for a vote and ensure no government shutdown or to add new Republican-favored language and send it back to the Senate.
As a result, readers seeking international news are increasingly spoiled for choice — especially if they read English, the common second language of many Europeans and the favored tongue for many of the new outlets.
By the 1970s and 1980s, standing limits traced to Article III's case-or-controversy language had replaced the political question doctrine as the favored justiciability device.
(Say we discover life on the moon. Will Newt attempt to say a few words in a lunar language?) Then there's Marco Rubio, the Cuban-American junior senator from Florida and the favored candidate for Vice-President (he won the CPAC straw poll last week).
Yet for Citron, Hong Kong, the favored domain of activist short sellers for several years, "is pretty closed," after 2016 saw Left found guilty of using "sensationalist language" and making false claims a verdict he says sanctioned him "for telling the truth". Hong Kong is "still a different kind of market," he argues.
Inasmuch as the Hapsburg rulers of Austro-Hungary favored German language and culture in Austria and Hungarian language and culture in Hungary, both Czechs and Slovaks, deeply affected by movements of national revival in the early 19th century, considered their respective nations to be treated as second-class citizens within Austria-Hungary and sought greater autonomy for themselves.
Caning was the favored mode of punishment.
The favored explanation blames Stalin.
I wasn't the favored candidate.
