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There are maybe 5 surnames in the credits to this film - clearly the backers of this film called in every family
favour
they could.
In 2009, the EU endorsed the principle of “explicit but not exclusive targeting” for Roma, and the European Commission allowed structural funds to be used to cover housing interventions in
favour
of marginalized communities, with a particular focus on Roma.
Blair is in
favour
of Europe; but not this Europe.
On the other hand, few people have a concentrated interest leading them to
favour
repeal.
Can you give me a list of people willing to testify and work in
favour
of such a bill?"
Some bits of the UDF are ostensibly in
favour
of market liberalisation and European integration; yet all five of the would-be collaborators with the FN came from the UDF.
Why The European Union Has No Foreign PolicyLONDON: Britain’s Labour government reacted to the crisis in Kosovo by coming out in
favour
of a stronger defence role for the European Union.
Despite shunning Marxism/Leninism in
favour
of "juche" in 1967, the Soviet subsidies kept North Korea’s economy above water until 1991.
Still, some German politicians, especially in the ruling SPD, are in principle in
favour
of giving the people their say in referenda.
The difference between today's Russia and the old Soviet Union is that the Gulag archipelago of labour camps has been shunted aside in
favour
of what can only be called a "Gucci archipelago" or a casino camp.
And though it soon conformed in practice, it has consistently contested the legitimacy of the Maastricht anti-inflation rules, and argues in
favour
of a greater emphasis on economic growth.
Not long ago, Chancellor Kohl used to press urgently for more majority voting, but at Amsterdam he had swung round in
favour
of keeping unanimity in several key areas.
'Well, and is he pleased?''How can he help being pleased at the Tsar's
favour?
His mind went rapidly over all the arguments in
favour
of his decision.
He wanted to ask why, if public opinion is an infallible judge, is a Revolution and a Commune"' not as lawful as the movement in
favour
of the Slavs?
For some time he had felt that he was diminishing in
favour.
At the present time she was, to a reasonable extent, in
favour
of the strike.
It had been going on and on for nearly two months, to his great surprise, and he was in despair over it; he felt himself every day lowered and compromised, and was forced to imagine some brilliant achievement which would bring him back into
favour
with the directors.
Vandame would now belong to Montsou; this was the hoped-for compensation, the stroke of fortune which would bring him back to
favour
with the gentlemen on the directorate.
I've always been in
favour
of quietness, and if you had listened to me, you certainly wouldn't be where you are now."
The report circulated that he was rising in
favour
with the directors, and that he would soon be made an officer of the Legion of Honour, on account of the energetic manner in which he had put down the strike.
He had evidently freed himself from responsibility; he did not appear to have decreased in
favour.
At last, after having examined some hundred designs, having ordered an estimate and made another journey to Rouen, Charles decided in
favour
of a mausoleum, which on the two principal sides was to have a "spirit bearing an extinguished torch."
This
favour
was conferred upon him after the 182- elections.
This young peasant's skin was so white, his eyes were so appealing, that the somewhat romantic mind of Madame de Renal conceived the idea at first that he might be a girl in disguise, come to ask some
favour
of the Mayor.
'I have a second
favour
to ask of you, Ma'am; I beg you not to look at the portrait, it is my secret.''It is a secret!' repeated Madame de Renal, in faint accents.
If I wish to be esteemed by them and by myself, I must show them that it is my poverty that deals with their wealth, but that my heart is a thousand leagues away from their insolence, and is placed in too exalted a sphere to be reached by their petty marks of contempt or favour.'
After I have obscurely scraped together a little money by going round all these timber sales, and winning the
favour
of various minor rascals, who can say whether I shall still preserve the sacred fire with which one makes oneself a name?'
Perhaps she is deciding in my
favour
only because of the facilities for our meeting.'
When the party broke up at midnight, his pessimism led him to believe that Madame Derville looked upon him with contempt, and that probably he stood no higher in the
favour
of Madame de Renal.
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