The book was critical of the Chinese government, whose favour Mr Murdoch needs to help his Star TV satellite broadcaster.
It has sullied Mr Cameron's standing in Europe, including with Angela Merkel, the German chancellor whose favour the prime minister counts on.
The fundamental cause of persecution was the Christians' conscientious rejection of the gods whose favour was believed to have brought success to the empire.
Apart from this, Mr X has to pay some money to people on whose favour he is reliant on for life and limb.
One was whether Congress could manage an amicable division of powers between its leader, Sonia Gandhi, and the unelected technocrat in whose favour she renounced the job of prime minister, Manmohan Singh (pictured in technocratic pose above).
As a result, in 1592 Hideyoshi, who was then without an heir, adopted Hidetsugu, in whose favour he abdicated the office of kampaku, or chancellor to the emperor, assuming for himself the title of taikō (chief councillor, retired).
This indicates a further shift of power towards Ayatollah Khamenei, whose favour all will be keener than ever to seek.Mr Ahmadinejad's failure to consolidate a firm power base may not mean any dramatic policy shifts.
Under the patronage of the shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, whose favour Zeami enjoyed after performing before him in 1374, the Noh was able to shake off the crudities of its past and to develop as a complex and aristocratic theatre.
"I give them a very good chance," says Carl I. Hagen, leader of the populist Progress Party, one of the opposition groups on whose favour the new government must rely.
