Sentence examples for were favoured to from inspiring English sources

Canada and the United States, with their many NHL players, were favoured to win the tournament.

In 2002, the Czechs were favoured to win, but were upset in the quarter final by Russia.

He rhetorically asked: "Do you really think that if we didn't go someone would come up to us after the Games and pat us on the back for not going?" Having arrived in Moscow, Evans' first event was the 100 m breaststroke, which the Soviets were favoured to win.

The radiological features were also similar, showing lesions with T2 signal hyperintensity and increased signal in FLAIR in the subcortical white matter; being subtle in Case 1 and extensively involving the posterior part of the temporal lobe in Case 2. Both our cases were favoured to be DNT by the radiologists as having absence of mass effect and no surrounding oedema [ 7].

Obama merely had to become a standard Democrat, since his party is favoured to win.

Great Britain will be favoured to beat a New Zealand side in transition.

Steels containing up to 4 percent molybdenum are favoured to withstand the acid conditions that are common.

Johnson, who is favoured to replace Cameron, protests that there is "no need for haste".

"She was going to beat – she was favoured to win – and she got schlonged.

"She was favoured to win and she got schlonged, she lost".

Neither candidate was favoured to be their party's nominee at the start of this political saga.