Sentence examples for to go in favour of from inspiring English sources

Yet it is to go in favour of a bland, 38-storey glass tower unless its short-sighted guardians can be reminded of what is being lost.

McKay, still short of a goal since the opening day of the season, was removed with 15 minutes to go in favour of Nick Ross.

Five years ago, it prompted the then BBC Trust chairman Sir Michael Lyons to criticise the corporation, saying viewers were "asked to make a choice between the programmes and that choice didn't go in favour of the BBC".

Thus, higher contrast inhomogeneity is allowed as well as lower noise; similarly, non-linear image distortion is implemented as an n th order polynomial, where n can range from 2 to 6. Notice that, according to the robustness test, the increase of the range of these values will not go in favour of AJM.

Yet Cuba and the Philippines, captured after the Spanish-American war of 1898, were soon let go in favour of a new notion that John Darwin calls "informal empire", and Cubans denounce as neo-imperialism.Mr Darwin's thesis is that imperial visions linger on well after the captains and kings have departed.

Many cases do, however, go in favour of big business.

The battle for Abidjan finally appears to be going in favour of Alassane Ouattara, the internationally acknowledged winner of the 2010 election in Ivory Coast, but the bloody manner of his victory will make his inauguration as a northerner in the south even more difficult than ever after almost 10 years of hot and cold war.

A British rock musician, Sting, lost his case because his adversary established that he had been using "Sting" as an alias in online games for years.Sting's defeat was unusual: 83% of the cases brought to WIPO have gone in favour of the trademark holder, suggesting that a precedent has been set which puts them before so-called "mom-and-pop" operations.

However, the bank has declared itself in favour of staying in the EU and threatened to move 1,000 jobs to Paris if the vote goes in favour of Brexit.

The matter was taken to court, and in early 2004 the ruling went in favour of Harisu, allowing her to keep the name.

So, as long as the powers are free to move from one coalition to another and provided that their self-interest goes in favour of keeping the balance of power in the system, the arms race logic also favours a multipolar system over a bipolar one.