Sentence examples for with favours from inspiring English sources

Politicians have built tight support networks with favours given and received.

Before, countries would lavish big businesses and shareholders with favours and free money – and justify it as leading to investment.

They were deliberately fattened by successive governments with favours and state-directed credit so that they would become the country's main engines of growth.

For three reasons: powerful contacts, the libel laws and Lady Archer.Lord Archer put politicians and journalists in his debt by showering them with favours, flattery and hospitality.

These are their version of "direct democracy", a national web of neighbourhood groups run by loyal party cadres through which the government channels money and foodstuffs along with favours and political influence to those who agree to join.

Other parties have since caught up, but at that time it allowed the Conservative party to target the "market segments" it needed for victory – not just with policy, but with favours.

"The Lord looked with favour on Abel and his offering, but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favour.

The British government merely "looked with favour" on such an idea.

Understatement and a low-key demeanour are looked upon with favour.

The Vaishyas are credited in history with favouring the rise of the reformist religious beliefs of Buddhism and Jainism.

Mr Roberts and the Lord's Observance Society do not look with favour on those who want to change the anomalies in the law.