Sentence examples for were favourable from inspiring English sources
adjective
Pleasing, encouraging or approving
- The candidate wearing the business suit made a favourable impression.
The first reactions overseas were favourable.
Their responses to the display were favourable.
The terms were favourable to Taylor.
Sporting results were favourable up until Cheltenham, he said.
Generally, critics were favourable to him, but the films seldom made money and had distribution problems.
But though polls were favourable, there was no point in going if votes were "stacking up [just] in the north".
Three years ago, 45% of companies said they were underconfident about the economic outlook, and only 25% were favourable.
Reviews were favourable, but none even approached the incomparable (and anti-racist) John Arlott's, in Wisden, "the cricketers' Bible".
In 2010, 99.43% of protected sites were "favourable" or "recovering" – ahead of the government's target of 95%.
He added that the "judge refused to admit into evidence several CDs that were were favourable to the defence".
Conditions in the castle civilization of 11th-century southern France, however, were favourable to a change of attitude toward women.
