political favor

Example Sentences

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But they cannot extinguish the belief that religion keeps alive: that there is something higher than Caesar’s will, something that commands conscience beyond fear of reprisal or political favor.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025

Encouraged to grow ever more, communes began to exaggerate their grain production levels to win political favor.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

CatholicVote selected the Trump hotel not to curry political favor with the administration but because it was a nice hotel near the White House, said a spokesman for the group, Joshua Mercer.

From Washington Post • Jan. 15, 2020

Prime Minister Tony Blair was covered on Monday’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” during which the ex-president asked his British counterpart for a political favor.

From Fox News • Oct. 8, 2019

I gratefully acknowledge that all the political favor I have received has been from the people of my native state.

From Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. by Sherman, John