The minority Sunnis were favored in the Hussein era while the majority Shiites were persecuted and powerless.
"We certainly didn't feel that we were favored in our negotiations with Merrill Lynch and Greenhill," he added, referring to Cable and Wireless' advisers.
Both horses were favored in their Belmonts, but neither were necessarily a dominating presence, escaping the first two rounds of the Triple Crown with narrow victories over solid rivals.
"Smooth" dances, as they are known -- fox trot, waltz, and the like -- were favored in Russia over livelier, more suggestive Latin ones, although the rhumba was allowed because it came by way of Cuba.
If you wanted an actual postseason underdog, the team the Cubs just dispatched in the wildcard game (the Cubs were favored in the game, by the way) better fit the description.
The mandate made its political début in a 1989 Heritage Foundation brief titled "Assuring Affordable Health Care for All Americans," as a counterpoint to the single-payer system and the employer mandate, which were favored in Democratic circles.
