Sentence examples for well-favored from inspiring English sources

Chennai had to win four of its last five regular-season matches, including a straight head-to-head with well-favored Delhi for the last semifinal place.

"Since the day that Socrates was known for being ugly and Pericles for being handsome and compelling, humans have found better-looking persons to be more interesting to look at than those less well-favored by the culture," he said.

Keeping in mind the small sample size, these economically less well-favored evangelical whites showed as actually more likely to back Obama (at 33%), than the overall white evangelical population, at 19%, in the Pew survey.

To be eudaimon is therefore to be living in a way that is well-favored by a god.

They'll open this series with a set of games on the parquet floor at TD Garden and will have to defend it with tenacity in order to have a chance against a well-favored opponent.

hen March Madness kicks off with Selection Sunday this weekend, many eyes will turn to the potential Cinderella stories, the triumphs of little-known teams over well-favored competition games that bust brackets and lead highlight reels.

"Family Matters" lines up well alongside its predecessors, "A Fine Balance" and "Such a Long Journey," and seems well favored to win the 2002 prize on October 22, when the contest is decided.

And one night Jobless dreamed of six fat cattle with numerals on their sides, and when he awoke he paid the amount required and entered these numerals in the lottery, and lo! the very same were drawn, and Jobless grew wealthy and well favored until his money was no more.

It is in the subsidiary roles that this production is especially well favored.

Mickelson, whose assertive and confident bearing on the Augusta National grounds seems to grow with each spring, conceded that there were holes that set up well for his favored play off the tee.

But the schools do well by the favored metric of twenty-first-century public education: they get consistently high scores on standardized tests administered by the State of New York.