Sentence examples for which was favoured from inspiring English sources

This detailed his private school in New York and Groton, which was favoured by many New York and Boston elite families (Franklin D Roosevelt was an old boy).

The society's two questions defined four possible scenarios, none of which was favoured as being more likely (such is the nature of scenario planning).

The Wisdom of Solomon, dating from the 1st century bce, shows an acquaintance with the Platonic doctrine of the preexistence of the soul and with a method of argument known as sorites, which was favoured by the Stoics (see Stoicism).

(Unlike Themistocles, he was still thinking in terms of land warfare and of an agreement with Sparta, which was favoured by the Athenian landowners, the peasantry, and the rural middle class).

Aside from the education controversy, the biggest factor in the Liberals' defeat was probably their advocacy of free trade, which was favoured by manufacturers but exposed farmers to ruinous foreign competition.

This approach, which may also be traced back to Hume, is exemplified in the theory of ethical emotivism, which was favoured by (among others) the logical positivists in the first half of the 20th century.

It is a consequence of the competition between enhancement mode, which is favoured by the decay of electron hole pairs, and reduction mode, which is favoured by the decay of the hybrid plasmon phonon quasiparticles.

He has also rejected splitting the retail banks from their riskier investment activities, which is favoured by the Liberal Democrats.

Carbonation in scCO2 produces a substantial increase in strength which is favoured by low moisture contents and low-alkali cements.

It is mainly assigned to the oxidation of GLAD vanadium films, which is favoured by the high porous morphology produced for the highest incident angles.

The design should ensure state unicity and stability, which are favoured by large heat-transfer capacity, low coolant temperature and high reactor-inlet temperature.