favoured

a most favoured nation

The December weather favoured our voyage.

natural selection has favoured bats.

a crotchety, ill-favoured human being.

She favoured a carrot-and-stick approach to teaching.

Textile workers favoured protection.

critics argued that the policy favoured the private sector.

historically, government policy has favoured urban dwellers.

The laws are designed to protect endangered species like badgers and otters, whose fur used to be favoured by sporran makers.

While some of this can be explained by society—in countries like China baby boys are favoured and many unborn girls are electively aborted—there are natural processes at work.

And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine: Lembu yang kurus dan buruk itu memakan ketujuh ekor lembu gemuk yang mula-mula.

But Fortune's favoured children belong to the second class.

Who, according to the author, are 'Fortune's favoured children'?

Some stocks, including Amazon and Netflix, remain expensive on favoured measures.

But which particular hue was favoured varied from season to season.

In the euro crisis she has favoured small, slow steps.

Some in senior management favoured a similar approach to Halabi, Lenneberg recalled.

Air travel was still a relatively expensive means of transportation favoured by wealthy Americans.

A favoured rallying cry of the rebels was, “Viva la muerte.” “Long live death.”

She had used to tease Wildeve, but that was before another had favoured him.

He never used the cosy chambers which the Reform provides for its favoured members.