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

It wasn’t a political favor he was after.

From Washington Post • Aug. 5, 2021

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

He continued to grow in political favor and, in 1858, received the nomination of the Republican party for the United States Senate.

From Stories of Later American History by Gordy, Wilbur Fisk