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90 examples of Favourable in a sentence

I had expected much from a Jim Henson production and had found favourable reviews comparing it to "The Labyrinth" and "Alice In Wonderland".
I cannot understand why this mess got any favourable reviews, much less why so many people have wasted money on this.
Despite the fact that I'd heard some less than favourable things about this film before seeing it, I still hoped that it might be at least half decent because director Ryan Nicholson previously made the very decent 45 minute rape and revenge film 'Torched', but this film falls down simply because most of it is either ridiculous or boring.
I tried numerous download sites, checked websites after i read favourable right ups.
The reviews here in the UK were quite favourable, which makes me think that there was an exchange of brown envelopes off-screen as well as on-screen.
I know I'm going against the grain here, because most of the comments have been favourable, but this movie is about as plausible as the Tooth Fairy.
I see all these very favourable comments and high marks and I can't help but wonder what all the people saw in this movie.
The Sunday Woman does have some favourable comments on it so maybe I'm just missing something here; but personally, I can't see much to like in this film.
Has the current financial and economic crisis, given its traumatic depth and the obvious responsibility of the United States as its source, created the necessary conditions and a more favourable climate for a major re-foundation of the multilateral institutions?
This can be done in several ways: by means tests that impose duties on many parents; by loans to be repaid under favourable conditions; by a special tax on graduates; or by mixtures of such approaches involving a generous system of bursaries as well as charges on well-to-do parents.
Such major losses in fishing capacity, with their far-reaching negative socio-economic consequences on the human populations affected, are bound to have major, mostly favourable, effects on the fish stocks.
Of course, if the international economic environment had been more favourable, and if there were not so much legitimate concern about declining purchasing power, the French might have shown greater indulgence towards their young president.
On-the-surface political stability and favourable investment laws may be in place, but in the absence of an effective judiciary or reliable security forces, committing capital to promising projects becomes that much more difficult.
But in arithmetic terms it is less favourable to the smaller countries, since they lose their weighting advantage.
It is much less favourable to Spain and Poland, since the weighting they received at Nice is almost as great as that of Germany, even though heir population are only half as large.
That was one favourable consideration.
Do you think it may go all right?''All the symptoms are favourable.'
Receiving favourable assurances from the abbe Pirard, the Marquis produced a note for one thousand francs:'Send this to Julien Sorel for his journey; tell him to come to me.''One can see,' said the abbe Pirard, 'that you live in Paris!
'Which of them,' she thought, 'could ever be sentenced to death, even allowing him the most favourable conditions?'
His actions were so little under the control of his mind that if some morose philosopher had said to him: 'Seek to take advantage rapidly of a disposition which for the moment is favourable to you; in this sort of brain-fed love, which we see in Paris, the same state of mind cannot continue for more than a couple of days,' he would not have understood.
The Cardinal had a favourable hearing ...'It was essential,' he said, 'that M. de Nerval should leave the Ministry, his name caused needless irritation.'Upon this, they all rose to their feet and began speaking at once.
There's no denying that some surprisingly favourable results have been attained for the accused in this way, for a limited time, and these petty advocates then strut to and fro on the basis of them and attract new clients, but for the further course of the proceedings it signifies either nothing or nothing good.
It sometimes seemed to him as if the painter was using these comments to make a favourable outcome to the trial a precondition for his help, which of course would make the help itself unnecessary.
But he clearly deemed K.'s silence to be favourable for himself and he continued,"You will have noticed the size of my office, but that I don't employ any staff to help me.
Pianist, thereupon, starts prelude to the Admiral's song, and Harris, seizing what he considers to be a favourable opening in the music, begins.]
She sought out one or two of the jurymen, talked with them, and endeavoured to possess them with favourable dispositions, on account that nothing was taken away, and no house broken, etc.; but all would not do, they were over-ruled by the rest; the two wenches swore home to the fact, and the jury found the bill against me for robbery and house-breaking, that is, for felony and burglary.
My heart leaped within me for joy when I heard his voice at the door, even before I saw him; but let any one judge what kind of motion I found in my soul, when after having made a short excuse for his not coming, he showed me that his time had been employed on my account; that he had obtained a favourable report from the Recorder to the Secretary of State in my particular case, and, in short, that he had brought me a reprieve.
As he fell asleep, he decided he would await a favourable opportunity, and his thoughts, fleeting further and further away, lulled him to rest with the murmur: "I will kill him, I will kill him."
The abrupt apparition of her niece had brought about a favourable crisis that had just restored her memory, and the consciousness of things and beings around her.
But as I know that it is a mark of prudence not to do by foul means what may be done by fair, I will ask these gentlemen, the guards and commissary, to be so good as to release you and let you go in peace, as there will be no lack of others to serve the king under more favourable circumstances; for it seems to me a hard case to make slaves of those whom God and nature have made free.
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