favor造句

bask in somebody's favor

Do they favor tax increases?

Industry and thrift favor success.

I do not favor extending unemployment benefits.

But maybe I did you a favor.

For even a tyrant will occasionally rule in my favor.

He tried to insinuate himself into the boss's favor.

But not everyone is in favor of the phenomenon.

The solidity of the evidence worked in his favor.

In beauty, that of favor, is more than that of color; and that of decent and gracious motion, more than that of favor.

The secretary is proposing to stand down in favor of a younger man.

I think my fiancee may favor the sweater in the shop window.

If we let go of a relief, forgiveness is a favor. Everything will become simple.

Zeus was in favor of Helen even though she was just a maid.

His colleague, medical oncologist Robert Maki, said Feiler's age was not in his favor.

Office workers are encouraged to shed their business suits in favor of sandals, khakis, and pedal pushers.

However, when it came to protecting business interests, he threw judicial restraint out the window in favor of activism.

He who rebukes a man will in the end gain more favor than he who has a flattering tongue.

Thus a test that involved pulling strings or operating levers would tend to favor a cat, while a test involving moving from place to place, where speed is a measure of performance, would favor a dog.

Ditch the flimsy faux-silk ribbon in favor of a thicker, less synthetic one from a craft or fabric store.

Many parents and teachers do not favor this shift in focus, but they are powerless to prevent it.

Such designers favor certain cutting techniques with names like the “jigsaw cut” (from Mr. Liu) and “subtraction cutting” (from Mr. Roberts).

It seemed to be some sort of knee-jerk reaction to tradition, throwing away the controls and standards in favor of anarchy.

I dream that one day depression won't destroy so many marriages and families, that better and faster treatment will work in favor of every form of intimacy.

Many of the country's other erstwhile proxies have all but abandoned the fight against India in favor of warring against the United States and their former masters.

True love is not a momentary favor, but a impulse to know clearly when it knows no result and wants to go on.

Rasmussen dismissed the possibility of Ciolonel Gadhafi stepping down in favor of his son, Seif al-Islam, pointing to a new International Criminal Court arrest warrant against both men.

The vote is taking place amid the larger backdrop of the economic crisis, and experts predict this dour atmosphere will generally favor conservative parties across the 27-member European Union.

I will swallow cyanide if America ever gets to the point that we forsake the outdoors in favor of whiling away long hours lounging in corporate chain stores while... oh, Barnes & Noble.

The bone also shows that A. afarensis had abandoned the flexible midfoot that apes use to grasp tree branches, in favor of an arch that makes upright walking more efficient.

Pressured from my wife's disapproving looks and the blank stares I received from her family as I explained why his toes curled this way or that, I dropped the shop-talk in favor of baby-talk.

Anybody can clearly see that the six paragraphs are more important than the single word, yet the program freely discarded those paragraphs in favor of the one word. The program’s blindness caused it to keep a quarter and throw away a fifty-dollar bill, simply because the quarter was offered last.