Favor
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Over here you can see this is the distribution of power in
favor
of civilian nuclear energy today, this is what that power block is predicted to be like by the late parts of 2010, early parts of 2011.
But the compromise, I felt, was in my
favor
because most people don't adjust their chairs.
But if you probe a bit deeper and get a bit more personal if you will, "Do you
favor
a law banning interracial marriage?"
And the fact that the demographics are in our favor, because we are the only young country in an aging world, makes globalization all the more attractive to Indians.
When he finally reached the capital, St. Petersburg, Rasputin used his charisma and connections to win
favor
with the imperial family’s spiritual advisor.
We craved but to
favor
the hem of her dress.
What they were doing was returning the favor, by giving us a hypothesis to test, in biology, that we wouldn't have thought of.
When I finished talking with her, she turns and looks at me and says, "Sister, I am 100 percent in
favor
of what you do." (Laughter and applause) That evening, her husband calls me, he tells me, "Sister, I don't know what you did to my wife.
It turned out, though, that not following the traditional practice of marrying within the Jewish community ultimately worked in my
favor
genetically, reducing the odds of me having a baby with Tay-Sachs.
It is the time that, biblically, we would speak of as the day, or the year, of God's
favor.
Please pardon me, as a black man, for celebrating that the election of Obama was an unusual sign of the fact that it is a year of
favor.
And there, the basic idea is that compassion leads you to do good things for people who then will return the
favor.
If you asked me, you know, why am I not in
favor
of bombing Japan, well, I'm only half-joking when I say they built my car.
It's when your welfare conduces to mine, that I decide, oh yeah, I'm all in
favor
of your welfare.
In fact, they were so rare that elected members of Parliament had the right to allocate 15 telephone lines as a
favor
to those they deemed worthy.
It is taking the hand of the architect to actually remove the hand of the architect in
favor
of the hand of the artistic director.
So I excused myself, and I went into the bathroom and I took my phone out in the bathroom, and I Googled the local mosque, and I called them very quietly from the bathroom, and I said, "Excuse me, imam, I need a
favor.
You cannot be in
favor
of your own values, which are at a distance from the values that you espouse.
Cancer cells mutate, and they gain the ability to release lots of those angiogenic factors, natural fertilizer, that tip the balance in
favor
of blood vessels invading the cancer.
How many would rule in
favor
of Casey Martin?
There are those who
favor
state recognition only of traditional marriage between one man and one woman, and there are those who
favor
state recognition of same-sex marriage.
How many here
favor
the first policy: the state should recognize traditional marriage only?
And how many
favor
the second, same-sex marriage?
Okay, I'm reading that at about 75 to 25 in
favor
at the start.
So, in
favor
of the proposition, possibly shockingly, is one of, truly, the founders of the environmental movement, a long-standing TEDster, the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, someone we all know and love, Stewart Brand.
Man: The last person who was in
favor
made the premise that we don't have enough alternative renewable resources.
All those in favor, raise your hands.
Those of you who changed your mind in
favor
of "for" put your hands up.
Both people won supporters, but on my count, the mood of the TED community shifted from about 75 to 25 to about 65 to 35 in favor, in
favor.
But increasingly, young people are taking to the streets and abandoning organized violence in
favor
of more effective nonviolent action.
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