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Example sentences for: favour

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I'm basically in favour of this European Research Council… provided it can be set up properly, which is by no means certain.
His daughter having noticed that the death-warrant was expected from London, attired herself in men's clothes, and twice attacked and robbed the mails (between Belford and Berwick), which conveyed the death-warrants; thus, by delaying the execution, giving time to Sir John Cochrane's father, the Earl of Dundonald, to make interest with Father Peter (a Jesuit), King James's Confessor, who, for the sum of five thousand pounds [something like $5 million today], agreed to intercede with his Royal Master in favour of Sir John Cochrane, and to procure his pardon; which was effected.
The Min /+ model has received great favour because it contains a mutation in the Apc gene, which is homologous to the human adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) gene [ 23 ] . Defects in the APC tumour suppressor gene are thought to play a role in greater than 70% of all colorectal cancers and is responsible for inherited syndromes of polyposis (FAP and Gardner's) [ 24 25 ] . Furthermore, in humans the majority of colorectal cancers arise from adenomatous polyps [ 26 ] .
Bartoshuk also says the debate is decided in favour of the labelled-line model in the periphery.
Of course, the Independent is not in favour of the hereditary principle, but if it happens to coincide with the popular will, then who can argue with it?"