Sentence examples for favoured from high-quality English sources.

• Marooned on Flores with limited food at hand, evolution favoured the small.

• But critics disagree, arguing that favoured companies produce little innovation.

• If the environments differ, different adaptations are favoured by natural selection.

• Football (soccer) is among the most popular sports in Lebanon, although basketball is also favoured.

• CYBER-CAFÉS were once a favoured tool of Western intelligence and security agencies.

• In the United States, most-favoured nation status has to be re-ratified periodically by Congress.

• “Conservatives” favoured less government control of the economy, while “leftists” sought greater economic socialization.

• Many Britons who did not bother to vote in 2015 turned out for the EU referendum; they favoured Leave by a 20-point margin.

Use favoured in a sentence.

• The most-favoured-nation clause prevents one of the parties to the current agreement from further lowering barriers to another country.

• The delays reflected disagreement between the economic team, which favoured caution, and those who favoured lockdown and sweeping compensation.

• The European approach favoured broad sociological theory based on philosophical methods, while the American approach favoured induction and empiricism.

• The Centralists, who were generally conservative, favoured a strong central government in the viceregal tradition, a paid national army, and Roman Catholicism as the exclusive religion.

• Legislation creating ‘government-favoured’ categories of websites will only disrupt neutrality on the internet, opening the door for other content to claim favoured status,” Atlassian said.

• The Montagnards favoured granting the poorer classes more political power, while the Girondins favoured a bourgeois republic and wanted to reduce the power of Paris over the course of the Revolution.

• The left favoured government spending and wealth redistribution to make society more fair; the right favoured a reduction in both of those in order to keep government finances both balanced and small.

• If country A grants country B the status of most-favoured nation, it means that B's EXPORTS will face TARIFF that are no higher (and also no lower) than those applied to any other country that A calls a most-favoured nation.

favoured sentence examples

• Unlike the sprightly-clothed crowd at Coachella – whose California sunshine lends itself to tropical prints and tie-dye – the early noughties Glastonbury attendee favoured a more muted sartorial palette, predicated by grungy khakis and distressed denims.

• Severus’ social policy favoured both the provincial recruitment of senators (Easterners, Africans, and even Egyptians), causing a sharp decrease in the percentage of Italian senators, and the elevation of the equestrian order, which began to fill the prince’s council with its jurists.

• Early Christian art (c. 2nd–c. 6th century) stressed neither aspect of the Last Supper to the exclusion of the other, but thereafter the East generally favoured compositions emphasizing the symbolic aspects of the event, and the West favoured those emphasizing the narrative.

• Each transition rate is promoted at a different voltage range: recovery from inactivation (i to c) is favoured under hyperpolarisation (under the reference parameters we have v2 = −55 mV), inactivation (o to i) takes place under marked depolarisation (v8 = −18 mV) and opening of closed channels (c to o) is favoured from potentials slightly hyperpolarised (v5 = −39 mV).