1. The Government came under fire yesterday for favouring elitist arts groups in the South-east.

2. Past policies favouring over-valued currencies have proved unsustainable.

3. Mrs Clinton is on record as favouring mental-health services, but how bountiful a package is not clear.

4. The total of those favouring denominational schooling in the initial survey was less than one-third.

5. In Britain, the balance of the equation favouring the exploitation of inside information is changing.

6. The succession law favouring the male heir was changed in May 1990 to give equal succession rights to both sexes.

7. They parted at the front entrance, Silas favouring her with a brief nod before striding away.

8. In diamond, the chemical bonds are strong, favouring high frequencies of vibration.

9. First-buyers can be excused for favouring discounts and cheap mortgages, because they have no existing place to unload.

10. Recent crimes lean me more towards favouring death penalty.

11. Governments everywhere are favouring locally made goods.

12. As for favouring democracy , what was the alternative? America cannot ram this idea down Arab throats.

13. In a society that eschews prejudice, favouring the beautiful seems as shallow as you can get.

14. The Democrats, though favouring withdrawal, are desperate not to look weak on national security.

15. The government has also promoted capital-intensive development by favouring manufacturing over the more labour-intensive services sector by holding down the prices of inputs such as land and energy.

16. But an explicit policy of favouring exporters is liable to recreate old problems.

17. Perceptual: Creates the reduced colour palette favouring colours that the human eye is more sensitive to.

18. The study vindicates those parents favouring the less-is-more, "cry-it-out" method of encouraging infants to sleep through the night.

19. The government supporters are beating up anyone they suspect of favouring the demonstrators.

20. There were voices, if as yet in a minority, within both industry and government favouring the establishment of free collective bargaining.Sentencedict

21. During that time, he has pursued his own path, favouring lyrical abstraction at the expense of changing fashion.

22. Of the smaller parties, the Workers' Party was the most decisive in favouring the change.

23. This general type of bias may be due to a selective memory search for information favouring a positive personal outcome.

24. While China has forsworn communist economics, it is still excessively favouring investment over consumption.

25. But there may also be structural reasons why investors are favouring bonds over shares.

26. It may also have taught them the folly of favouring ideological purism over electability when choosing the next Labour leader.

27. And while ICAR may be accused of ineptness, it is not suspected of favouring commercial interests.

28. He says the DPJ will oppose the stimulus package, which he describes as "half-baked", favouring the LDP's traditional interests over the elderly and the weak.

29. When a society abandons economic growth, is there any reason for favouring profit?

30. He might be in his study from 10 at night until one in the morning, or up early to be at his desk by 8.30, writing with a quill pen he sharpened himself and favouring dark blue ink.

31. Mr Griffin, himself a former CNN employee, reckons that the channel has failed to move with the times by favouring the "disinterested, at-arm's-length anchor".