in favor of
Example Sentences
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That’s according to Lori Calvasina, RBC Capital’s head of U.S. equity strategy, who expects the top 10 tech stocks to continue “to keep fighting back until earnings growth dynamics shift more clearly in favor of the value trade or the broader market.”
From MarketWatch
“It can cause us to ignore the truth, the objective truth, in favor of how a person feels.”
From Salon
It won’t require students to accept assumptions that skew inquiry in favor of a certain position.
In settlements close to the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, health officials are turning away patients seeking treatment for bacterial infections in favor of more urgent cases, aid officials say.
How can we be expected to feel the same bone-deep despair as Agnes if our time with Hamnet is cut so short, in favor of watching his mother suffer?
From Salon
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