Synonym: in favor, in favor of, in favour, pro. Similar words: favor, favorite, favorable, infant, in fact, nervous, juror, unfair. Meaning: adv. favoring a proposition, opinion, etc.;.
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211. Employers who do not offer career breaks and childcare facilities may find themselves passed over in favour of employers who do.
212. Other bands don't: they eschew the arty deliberations of the underground in favour of an all-out assault upon preconceptions and asinine posturing.
213. Mr. Lawrence Is the hon. Gentleman in favour of reducing the age of consent in homosexual offences to 16?
214. Demonstrations were held in favour of Havel's appeal, including a meeting of 50,000 people in Prague on Nov. 21.
215. Having contemplated the pro's and con's Darwin came down on the side in favour of marriage.
216. Many of us carry full donor cards in favour of our surviving fellow humans.
217. We will reverse the present planning presumption in favour of opencast coal mining and give top priority to local people and their environment.
218. Mr Segni's acolytes have collected more than 600,[http://sentencedict.com/in favour of.html]000 signatures in favour of his three referendums.
219. As was noted earlier, elections in Northern Ireland itself have always produced clear majorities in favour of Unionist government.
220. His father, a builder and carrier, was one of the first carters to stable his horses in favour of steam traction lorries.
221. Arthur Dunkel, secretary-general, had proposed abolishing all quotas in favour of setting tariffs.
222. For smaller farmers, too, the arguments in favour of slaughter are compelling.
223. I shall be interested to hear any arguments in favour of that proposal, for it would be easy to knock them down.
224. However, no residents in affected houses had complained and many had spoken out in favour of the proposals.
225. In the report members of the police were accused of acting illegally and it was suggested that they were biased in favour of Inkatha.
226. The emphasis of action taken in favour of DRAs must be to achieve permanent changes in income earning potential and social cohesion.
227. The majority of people voted in favour of parties that advocate the inclusion of the social chapter, but the Government rejects it.
228. The nurses say they are in favour of the Pill being available because it answers a very real need.
229. But it was Pearce's assessment which carried a more convincing argument in favour of Ron Atkinson's team.
230. This uncertainty argument in favour of fixed exchange rates is based upon the apparent instability of capital flows.
231. Much of the information the clinics gave people was incomplete and biased in favour of educated middle-class clients.
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