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Favor in sentence

1973 examples of Favor in a sentence

I gave you at least four arguments in favor.
I want you to look in your email in-box, and I want you to look at the last time you asked somebody for a favor.
Can we earn God's favor by worshipping Him or believing in Him?
Evolution does not necessarily favor the longest-lived.
It doesn't necessarily favor the biggest or the strongest or the fastest, and not even the smartest.
In a country which had just gone through this wrenching crisis, the vote in the congress in favor of this constitutional amendment was 124 to one.
And would you do me a favor?
But I think technology is finally going to do us a favor.
Six of those seven voted yes in favor of the bill, so it passed, and it passed by a vote of 47 to 32. (Applause) Please.
Many patients like that favor radiation therapy.
The court ruled in favor of keeping INSITE open by nine to zero.
And for the next three years, her fate will be having sex with him every day, as a favor for getting her in school.
He will get a return favor at some point in the future.
They're normally, male chimpanzees, not particularly interested in infants, but when they are campaigning like that, they get very interested in infants and they tickle them, and they try to curry favor with the females.
So this is a very common tactic, and male chimpanzees, they spend a lot of time currying favor with all sorts of parties when they are campaigning.
But first of all, I want you to do me a favor.
He pulled in every favor he could, and got a pass into the World Trade Center site, where he photographed for nine months almost every day.
Oxytocin can bias people to favor their own group at the expense of other groups.
And I'm in favor, actually.
I'm in favor of particularly where the older technologies don't work well or have become unacceptable.
When I was writing this talk, I found it very difficult to strike an honest balance, because on the one hand, I felt very uncomfortable to come out here and say, "Look I've received all these benefits from a deck stacked in my favor," and it also felt really uncomfortable to follow that up with, "and it doesn't always make me happy."
And last year, the president of the United States came out in favor of gay marriage.
We sent a petition to the Shura Council in favor of lifting the ban on Saudi women, and there were, like, 3,500 citizens who believed in that and they signed that petition.
After all, no one is actually in favor of crony capitalism.
It gets tempting at that point to use your economic nous to manipulate the rules of the global political economy in your own favor.
Once you have the tremendous economic power that we're seeing at the very, very top of the income distribution and the political power that inevitably entails, it becomes tempting as well to start trying to change the rules of the game in your own favor.
How many would be in favor and how many would be opposed to giving it a try?
Now marketers like us to believe that all information about us will always be used in a manner which is in our favor.
And just last week, the European Parliament came on board with a vote 600 to 30 in favor of public registries.
We read an article long, actually, before we got married, where Warren Buffett talked about that, and we're quite convinced that it wasn't a favor either to society or to the kids.
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