Sentence examples for was less favourable from inspiring English sources

Race day was less favourable.

The political climate was less favourable for canal building in central Europe, but the Ludwig Canal, forming part of the Rhine-Main-Danube route, was opened in 1840.

The compromise accepted by the Allied powers on Oct. 20, 1921, was less favourable to the Poles than was the Korfanty Line.

Cabo Verde's dry climate was less favourable, but, with the development of the transatlantic slave trade, the importance and wealth of the islands increased.

In much of the south the climate was less favourable for growing wheat, but vineyards and olive groves were nonetheless plowed up, especially after 1929 when the world price of olive oil halved.

The company's stock, with a guaranteed interest of 6 percent, sold well, but the relevant peace treaty, the Treaty of Utrecht made with Spain in 1713, was less favourable than had been hoped, imposing an annual tax on imported slaves and allowing the company to send only one ship each year for general trade.

Her first impressions were less favourable.

"People are less favourable to this idea," Gaillard said.

Non-Russian opinion of Catherine is less favourable.

For holidaymakers exchanging a few hundred pounds, the rate is less favourable.

The financial crisis apart, it's hard to imagine conditions being less favourable.