How To Use Favourable In A Sentence
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This period provided a favourable environment for the spread of communism.
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The reports of thefe pra&itioners are certainly favourable, in fome degree, to the idea of diluting the variolous contagion; however, many more fa&s are wanting deci - sively to edablifh the fuperiour advantage of this mode of inoculation..
The Analytical Review, Or History of Literature, Domestic and Foreign, on an Enlarged Plan
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And in another boost to Land Securities' hopes of winning permission this time round, ordinary members of the public have given a generally favourable response to the scheme.
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The disappointing profits are due to unfavourable currency translations.
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Energy is more readily conveyed to the various parts of the smaller mass, and hence the lesser organisms will more actively functionate; and this, as being the urging dynamic attitude, as well as that most generally favourable in the struggle, will multiply and favour such forms of life.
The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays
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At first glance, that mightn't seem very favourable as many top players like to take a break after a major championship.
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Employee attitudes towards a move may be made more favourable if the employer allows the relocation to take place during school holidays.
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That is why I think it hasn't got favourable reviews here, because something gets lost in the translation.
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These major die-offs will continue to occur at unpredictable intervals when the most extensive, persistent, extremely unfavourable snow and ice conditions prevail.
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Only in the far east were conditions different and more favourable to battle.
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Her achievement was more impressive given the unfavourable prevailing economic conditions.
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The inscription above the arch, "To a happy and prosperous entrance," seemed a mockery in the old douanier days, when delays and extortions vexed the soul of the visitor, and produced a mood anything but favourable to the enjoyment of the Eternal City.
Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood
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If the government wants to collect more tax, it should show a favourable disposition towards big business.
Times, Sunday Times
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When in a position allowing of direct examination, the contused portion of the nerve sometimes developed a palpable fusiform thickening, manipulation of which might give rise to formication in the area of distribution -- a favourable prognostic sign.
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre
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A favourable outcome would allow us to begin in September and the project would take two years to complete.
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For collective bargaining to have a real point, it must achieve wage rates and non-wage conditions more favourable to the employees than the customary rate.
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Between them they garnered some favourable reviews.
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Readers and other members of the public, sensing a clear impulse to beat down an unfavourable report, must have suspected some truth was giving offence.
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This revenue-neutral property was believed essential for public acceptance, which in fact has been largely favourable.
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The caecum in particular, is favourable for the growth of anaerobes such as clostridia and bacteroides.
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This can easily be shown by considering any case in which a universal generalization is inferred from an unexhausted series of wholly favourable instances.
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When all the conditions are meet, and there is perhaps a favourable wind, or a tailwind, then set sail.
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Unfavourable economic conditions were blocking a recovery of the American insurance market.
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So, in a sense, Michael Apted's new film is something of a counterweight to balance an unfavourable scale.
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So thanks to you all once again for all your help and hopefully we will have a favourable outcome in a few weeks time.
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As it stands it's a weak prosecution case, the matter will be vigorously defended, and I'm very confident of a favourable outcome.
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A committed group of people turns out annually and hopefully if the weather is favourable on Sunday next we'll see a good number of walkers to keep up this long tradition.
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We've had a very favourable response from customers.
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And if there is an unfavourable wind or swell, there are plenty of worthwhile sheltered sites which are also suitable for novices.
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There is little doubt that the summing-up was not as favourable as Forbes would probably have given.
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By the time it was our turn to field, the conditions were more favourable for bowling, the ball was swinging and Botham took a couple of wonderful catches.
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His demand for a €14 hike in social welfare payments got a favourable response.
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He said special attention will be paid to overcoming the unfavourable demographic situation by supporting parents.
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These have not had a bad run but tend to move upwards on any favourable economic news.
Times, Sunday Times
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"We are looking to put it right as soon as the weather is favourable, " she said.
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There has been a favourable response but there is room for improvement all the time.
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Will they be favourable or hostile to your approach?
Times, Sunday Times
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Still the angle was unfavourable, but an adroit flick of his right foot settled the issue.
Times, Sunday Times
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One question, for example, asks them to recount in 100 words a recent stressful incident in which they averted an unfavourable outcome.
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The whole international economic situation is very unfavourable for the countries in the south.
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In the 1590s he favoured a tactic of moderation in the expectation of a favourable political change.
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A favourable system of taxation has led to the Bahamas becoming an important financial centre.
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It can, however, without prejudicing the objective, be restricted to those cases which constitute a danger to their acquaintances and so to patients with open tuberculosis in hygienically unfavourable conditions.
Robert Koch - Nobel Lecture
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The Department head took away some of her responsibilities, she said, and then wrote unfavourable reports about her performance.
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The ‘constructive’ market position is favourable to short term unhedged long positions.
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But Leeds City Council planners, who will have the final say, have already given a favourable response to the main thrust of the scheme.
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The possibility of a favourable outcome to such an enterprise reaches the vanishing point.
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Is he favourable to the proposal?
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The high prices at many airports have incurred many complaints and also drew unfavourable media attention.
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When the claim Of a roan of distinguished merit arose, there was generally no vacancy of this kind; and when the vacancies occurred, the offices were in truth given away upon political or family considerations, without much re - gard to distinguished merit The word sinecure was a very unpopular word, and indeed so was the word pension, of which several no very favourable definitions had been given.
The Parliamentary Register: Or an Impartial Report of the Debates that Have Occured in the Two ...
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The ship forged ahead under a favourable wind.
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Hadji Baba, had described the manners and vices of the Eastern nations, not only with fidelity, but with the humour of Le Sage and the ludicrous power of Fielding himself, one who was a perfect stranger to the subject must necessarily produce an unfavourable contrast.
The Talisman
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She sent the manuscript to a great number of the leading intellectuals to build up a body of favourable opinion.
Times, Sunday Times
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We are pressed by our very nature into the service of virtue; our souls are up in arms against vice and improbity, and thus we receive lasting impressions, which, when our hearts are not very corrupt, must forever after have a favourable influence on our moral conduct.
The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1
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The play got splendid, excellent, unfavourable, etc reviews.
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This is an incidental allusion to him on the cartulary of Holy Trinity Priory, Aldgate, which shows him in a more favourable light.
Bedlam
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If you back the wrong horse at the start of the race, as any bookmaker will tell you, your chances of gaining a favourable return are slim.
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She gained a highly favourable impression of the company.
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The play got a favourable reception from the critics.
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But if a benefic planet, that is, Venus or Jupiter, is in favourable aspect to Saturn thus located by night, those things which were denied will be given in another way.
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Conditions at the time were favourable to his securing political independence.
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The memo is directed at senior NSA officials and advises them that the agency is 'mounting a surge' aimed at gleaning information not only on how delegations on the Security Council will vote on any second resolution on Iraq, but also 'policies', 'negotiating positions', 'alliances' and 'dependencies' - the 'whole gamut of information that could give US policymakers an edge in obtaining results favourable to US goals or to head off surprises'.
Archive 2003-03-01
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Our tax regime is one of the most favourable in Europe.
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In their place is the belief that human problems arise from the interaction of individual experience with unfavourable social and environmental conditions.
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Without going here into further details, we may gather from what has been said above that the comitia tributa were the most favourable to popular government, and the comitia centuriata to aristocracy.
The Social Contract
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Less favourable treatment on these grounds is likely to constitute unlawful discrimination, which can lead to unlimited compensation.
Times, Sunday Times
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Indeed, there's a favourable outcome - Dolly seems to have decided that sleeping on the kitchen counter really isn't a good idea after all and has decamped to a corner of the bathroom.
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Rational Review
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The peace effectively reinstated the Treaty of Madrid but on more favourable terms for the French.
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In contrast, Zambia's imports rose in the same period under review leading to unfavourable trade imbalances.
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The latter tend to offer less favourable terms, in order that they may have a slice of the cake.
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This is due to somewhat less favourable circumstances, to a nobler and less manageable race of aborigines; the land perhaps more beautiful, is by the very character of its beauty less subduable.
Great Britain and Her Queen
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That improved Mrs Goole's already favourable opinion of him.
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His recently completed chapel for Fitzwilliam is attracting favourable comment.
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The ship forged ahead under a favourable wind.
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Albinos regularly turn their heads to the side and roll their eyes in a circular motion in an attempt to find a favourable axis of sight; they suffer from rapid nystagmus, and blink constantly.
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We used repeat deliberate self harm as a marker of an unfavourable outcome.
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The only areas where conditions are utterly unfavourable for it to grow are the poles and tropics.
Fats, Nutrition and Health
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For the methylimide determination, the fact that the ratio of the hydriodic acid to the substance quantity used (approx. 3 mg) would be far more favourable than for the macro-analytical process, had not been foreseen.
Fritz Pregl - Nobel Lecture
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We have had a favourable response to the plan so far.
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It means ‘wind and water’ and refers to the ancient art of geomancy - a calculated assessment of the most favourable conditions for any venture.
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After we had sailed some fourteen days we were brought to Cape St. Anthony again through lack of favourable wind; but then our scarcity was grown such as need make us look a little better for water, which we found in sufficient quantity, being indeed, as I judge, none other than rain-water newly fallen and gathered up by making pits in a plot of marish ground some three hundred paces from the seaside.
Summarie and true discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian voyage
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Overall, the response was favourable with many Waterford people believing that charging for plastic bags will significantly reduce the numbers used.
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The board is hoping for favourable weather and another big attendance.
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To birds kind enterprise of treatment breed aquatics, shandong will offer taxation favourable policy.
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A favourable outcome would allow us to begin in September and the project would take two years to complete.
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For example, seed dormancy, leading to the production of soil seed banks, allows escape from unfavourable conditions in time rather than in space.
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In a divided group, a few individuals may find a safe refuge in which to await a favourable change.
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Presumably this review is the most favourable, in a prestigious journal, that the publisher could find.
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His recently completed chapel for Fitzwilliam is attracting favourable comment.
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That's not quite true; I have more hours and more money than at the beginning, and have been relieved of some more enervating teaching duties in favour of some more favourable to my interests and temperament.
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The farmer and the fisherman relied much upon favourable weather.
The Gods of Asgard
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Seeds, when ripened in the fruit, are disseminated, that is to say, scattered on the surface of the ground, to sprout in spots as yet unoccupied and fill the expanses that realize favourable conditions.
The Life of the Spider
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The preliminary pages of the paperback edition give copious quotes from favourable reviews of the book in the major newspapers.
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He sent her news clippings and favourable reviews, she said.
Times, Sunday Times
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The footbridge is designed to accommodate loads of public crowds, taken as full or partial loading in the most unfavourable conditions.
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He can discount the bills accepted by the bank with the credit provider who offers the most favourable terms.
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For the mental toiler, also, it is equally important that the period devoted to the restoration of brain material and the imbibition of a fresh supply of nerve power for the ensuing day's requirements should be passed under circumstances the most favourable for bestowing them.
The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken
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A £10,000 cheque will be banked by Sunday's victors from the FA's prize fund with the prospect of much more to follow if Saturday's draw proves favourable.
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Unlike some, I see what the French are doing in a favourable light, as a separation of church and state.
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People will listen and give your ideas a favourable reaction.
The Sun
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Anyone wanting to reproduce one of my poems will almost always get a speedy and favourable response to an inquiry.
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There had been a failure specifically to identify favourable material, but that was attributed to the difficulties under which the applicant has been labouring by reason of having been detained.
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-- Captain Waverley, I must request your favourable construction of her grief, which may, or ought to proceed, solely from seeing her father's estate exposed to spulzie and depredation from common thieves and sorners, while we are not allowed to keep half a score of muskets, whether for defence or rescue. '
Waverley — Complete
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Seeds of some species do not germinate when placed under conditions normally regarded as favourable to germination and are said to be dormant.
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The proposal has received a generally favourable reaction.
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This allows one to make the most efficient and favourable changes to the diet.
Fats, Nutrition and Health
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Still the angle was unfavourable, but an adroit flick of his right foot settled the issue.
Times, Sunday Times
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Besides, it is a style easily imitated, and so is not unfavourable to autorial equality.
Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters
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About equal quantities of malted and unmalted grains are mashed in cold and boiling water, and the two mashes are combined to yield a mixture at a temperature favourable to saccharification, souring and yeast fermentation.
Chapter 6
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That is why I think it hasn't got favourable reviews here, because something gets lost in the translation.
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On line, with good speed and a favourable bounce, the ball eventually disappeared into the hole.
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And a 1755 edition has an account of early vaccinations, with Hans Sloane writing that is "performed by making a very slight incision in the skin of the arm" and putting into it "a dossil dipped in the ripe matter of a favourable kind of small-pox" to protect against later severe natural infection.
Moneycontrol Top Headlines
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Most have already been consulted on the scheme and have indicated a favourable outcome.
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Vines are planted on high clay-limestone slopes, many of which enjoy a favourable west south west exposure.
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Maize was sown on two dates in each year; thus, plants sown early were exposed to low temperature, whereas those sown later developed under more favourable conditions.
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The lump was very deep-seated, and in what he called `an unfavourable position".
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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And that is why his television commentary this summer at both Wimbledon and the US Open was given favourable reviews.
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The bank will lend your company quite a huge sum of money on very favourable terms.
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Overall, the response was favourable with many Waterford people believing that charging for plastic bags will significantly reduce the numbers used.
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The instant response was very favourable and next morning the reviews were superb.
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I have received the lion's share of unfavourable media attention and felt the heat of public scrutiny for two weeks.
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The commission is cautiously favourable to Austrian membership, foreseeing few economic problems.
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Favourable treatment has been given to the small shareholder, when allocating oversubscribed issues, in some of the privatisation issues.
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That is, low levels of aptitude, a lack of interest in mathematics, and unfavourable attitudes toward the course tend to result in high levels of anxiety which eventuates in poor performance on the statistics examination.
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Their purpose is to influence government to adopt policies favourable to them.
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The organisers were embarrassed by the unfavourable media publicity.
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You made a favourable impression on the examiners.
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Mr. Jay (who lives by supplying the newspapers with short paragraphs relating to accidents, offenses, and brief records of remarkable occurrences in general -- who is, in short, what they call a penny-a-liner) told his landlord that he had been in the city that day and heard unfavourable rumours on the subject of the joint-stock banks.
Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes Detective Stories
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He may wish to refix his ship elsewhere as soon as possible, to take advantage of a favourable market.
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Such arrangements were much too common for any unfavourable comment to be made.
Molly Keane's Ireland
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She sent the manuscript to a great number of the leading intellectuals to build up a body of favourable opinion.
Times, Sunday Times
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The media coverage of the two visits was noteworthy for its lack of any unfavourable commentary on the government's foreign policy.
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The recent one day trip to Ballintubber Abbey and Church Island by a group from the parish was blessed with favourable weather.
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Will they be favourable or hostile to your approach?
Times, Sunday Times
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The favourable treatment is unlikely to last.
Times, Sunday Times
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The tax cuts produced a favourable response from the public.
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Seeds of some species do not germinate when placed under conditions normally regarded as favourable to germination and are said to be dormant.
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Traders said rather than being encouraged to stay, they were being offered favourable terms to leave.
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A smart appearance makes a favourable impression at an interview.
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You understand what others want from you and should get a favourable reaction to the changes you want to make at home.
The Sun
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Your expression, "and tends to depart in a slight degree," I think hardly grammatical; a _tendency_ to depart cannot very well be said to be in a slight degree; a _departure_ can, but a tendency must be either a _slight tendency_ or a _strong tendency_; the degree to which the departure may reach must depend on favourable or unfavourable causes in addition to the tendency itself.
Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1
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The problem for the insurers was, as usual, to balance off favourable against unfavourable statistics in the setting of their rates.
DOUBTFUL MOTIVES
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It will certainly leave a more favourable impression with visiting tourists.
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Members of the board of management were over-whelmed by the enthusiasm and favourable comments expressed by so many visitors.
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We inclose the statement of account which leaves us still creditors, owing principally to the unfavourable sale of the 'Remains'; and some additions must very shortly be made to the balance by the expenses of new editions of the Rural Tales and
Letter 409
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He obviously chose only the teachers who would give favourable comments.
Times, Sunday Times
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However, some shops may ask you to pay in sterling and may apply currency exchange and commission rates which are unfavourable.
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They have taken out expensive adverts in the trade press, complete with favourable reviews.
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Future international cases, where the defendants hail from less liberal countries and do not have the benefit of a constitution, might not have such a favourable outcome.
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The most favourable circumstance was the existence of governments in the Six which were broadly consensual in their view on integration.
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The favourable treatment is unlikely to last.
Times, Sunday Times
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Changing political and social conditions both helped to shape ideas and to create conditions favourable to their development.
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These have not had a bad run but tend to move upwards on any favourable economic news.
Times, Sunday Times
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Neil gets a wigging for non-publication of a favourable review.
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Less favourable are levonorgestrel, norgestrel and norethisterone, so try to avoid these if you are concerned about excess hair loss.
Times, Sunday Times
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The film bears favourable technical comparison with Hollywood productions costing 10 times as much.
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You understand what others want from you and should get a favourable reaction to the changes you want to make at home.
The Sun
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Her bold look, denuded bosom, and flaunty air, were sufficient to impress at once our heroine with an unfavourable opinion of her; and after she had retired with Rosse she expressed her dislike to him, and enquired whether she was not right in her conjectures.
Three Weeks in the Downs, or Conjugal Fidelity Rewarded: exemplified in the Narrative of Helen and Edmund
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Of course, for auctioneers, word of mouth is a great form of gaining new business but there is no harm in background checks after you have heard favourable reports.
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'The Feast of the Dead,' and was celebrated in order to insure a favourable reception for their departed brother from the mouldering occupants of the grave-yard, and to prevent the appearance of his doppie.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 449 Volume 18, New Series, August 7, 1852
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I wrote a favourable review of this in the Bulletin in 1969.
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People will listen and give your ideas a favourable reaction.
The Sun
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According to them we can only know something of God by means of the vital immanence, that is, under favourable circumstances the need of the Divine dormant in our subconsciousness becomes conscious and arouses that religious feeling or experience in which God reveals himself to us (see MODERNISM).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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Most animals' basic needs can be met in captivity if conditions are sufficiently favourable.
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Conditions at the time were favourable to his securing political independence.
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Sydenham's basic premise is that historians have either neglected this revolutionary, or given him a rather unfavourable press.
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But only 49 per cent of Americans express a favourable opinion of the organisation.
Times, Sunday Times
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The chairman, Senator Moylan, proposed that the board carry out some test bores to establish that ground conditions are favourable for construction work.
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And, once again, many of the reviews were favourable.
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There has been a favourable response but there is room for improvement all the time.
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A new fiscal deal - now possible given more favourable economic winds - might calm nerves.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The high prices at many airports have incurred many complaints and also drew unfavourable media attention.
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It was propelled by oars in battle, and carried sails for use in favourable winds.
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Favourable global economic conditions has encouraged analysts to be bullish about shares.
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And to this continuity of the circumpolar land, and to the consequent freedom for intermigration under a more favourable climate, I attribute the necessary amount of uniformity in the sub-arctic and northern temperate productions of the Old and New Worlds, at a period anterior to the Glacial epoch.
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
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Good news for western companies selling consumer goods there; less favourable for miners supplying iron ore and copper.
Times, Sunday Times
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The aim was to ensure favourable press coverage of the jubilee.
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At Leghorn I took a passage for Marseille in a xebeque, but after sailing for three days the weather proved very unfavourable, and I landed at Spezia and proceeded by Genoa and the Cornici Road to Marseille.
Autobiography
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The scheme might work better with more favourable circumstances.
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My first impression of him was favourable.
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They offered me a loan on very favourable terms.
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The CHMP, on the basis of quality, safety and efficacy data submitted, considers that there is a favourable benefit to risk balance for Scintimun for scintigraphic imaging, in conjunction with other appropriate imaging modalities, for determining the location of inflammation/infection in peripheral bone in adults with suspected osteomyelitis and therefore recommends the granting of the marketing authorisation.
Undefined
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The favourable realisations have contributed to the increased creditor pay out,’ he said.
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The bank will lend your company quite a huge sum of money on very favourable terms.
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Sadly, both of these groups are biased and are only after one outcome - a favourable one to whoever is sponsoring the work.
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Here, the favourable heart layout will see the finesse win.
Times, Sunday Times
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The developer was getting a favourable arrangement elsewhere in Costford to reimburse him for his trouble.
PROSPECT HILL
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Chile has been offered the carrot of a more favourable free trade agreement.
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In contrast, Zambia's imports rose in the same period under review leading to unfavourable trade imbalances.
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A fierce debate arose among those trying to respond to the unfavourable economic and social effects of occupation.
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The bank will lend your company quite a huge sum of money on very favourable terms.
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Though he notes occasional heroism, his general verdict on the working classes is unfavourable.
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Careless spelling mistakes in a letter can create an unfavourable impression .
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Both have similar favourable ratings, with slightly more than half of voters viewing each favourably.
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She and her fellow campaigners met with Wiltshire County Council officials last week and met with a favourable response.
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'A new review of the potential for this therapy has been favourable showing there is a potential role for stimulation of the genioglossus muscle, but it is still early days, and we need to wait for the result of further trials to see just how effective this treatment may be, 'says Professor Jim Horne, head of the sleep laboratory at Loughborough University.
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That first round match is against qualifier George Bastl of Switzerland, which is considered a fairly favourable draw by the young Scot.
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Although they laboured under the unfavourable conditions, they fulfilled the plan.
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The former schoolmaster was never happy with the media when they were castigating him for years of failure with Edinburgh and, if anything, he appears even less comfortable now the press that he receives is universally favourable.
