Sentence examples for won favourable from inspiring English sources

But Kubrick persisted and his next low-budget feature, Killer's Kiss, won favourable attention.

Richelieu again won favourable terms for her after the defeat of her second rebellion (August 1620).

Timchenko has denied accusations that Gunvor had won favourable contracts with Russia's state-oil companies because of his alleged friendship with Putin.

Lucy Benson-Brown's one-woman performance, Cutting Off Kate Bush, won favourable reviews and drew a flurry of tributes to the singer, who recently has been celebrated in a special edition of the Big Issue, afforded a retrospective on BBC4 and is the subject of a three-hour special on Radio 6 Music.

The film opened well due to the popular soundtrack by Harris Jayaraj and the marketing as a Valentine's Day release, and won favourable reviews from critics which led to commercial success.

He went on to play in two representative schools matches at Lord's Cricket Ground, where he scored 44, 91, 57 and 55 in two matches and won favourable reviews in the press.

This enabled him not only to win favourable positions but also to avoid loss in inferior positions.

He helped the unions win favourable settlements from employers and pushed through a welfare program that provided vacations, retirement benefits, and severance pay.

Carmichael said the party, which is languishing at about 8% in the opinion polls, knew the pledge to scrap Prevent would not win favourable "Daily Mail headlines", but he hoped it would appeal to people who had once been the party's core voters, particularly teachers and students.

In America the high point of the antagonism between bloggers and the mainstream media was in late 2004, when "60 Minutes", an evening news show on CBS, alleged on the basis of leaked memos that George Bush junior had used family connections to win favourable treatment in the Air National Guard in the 1970s.

The US complained to the World Trade Organisation about China's quota in 2007, and won a favourable judgment in 2009.