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

Captain Brevard, being of a retiring disposition, never sought political favor, but preferred to discharge his obligations to his country rather by obeying than by making her laws.

From Sketches of Western North Carolina, Historical and Biographical by Hunter, C. L.