Sentences with phrase «favour with»

The BBC calls it an opportunity «for others to try to win favour with the Chinese.»

You were happy enough to put your own interpretation on Dr Schmidt's e-mail when you were trying to gain favour with the others at the conference though.

This is EXACTLY what they intended — to advance BBC pension fund investments in windmills and to curry favour with the government in support of «green taxes» (not to mention propping up the fraudsters at the University of East Anglia and the Royal Society).

The conundrum faced was discussed here by Grypo along with some solutions from libertarian thinkers which didn't find favour with commentators.

Fall out of favour with the state funders, and your career could soon be over.

sacrifices were made to curry the favour with the relevant god or gods in charge of climate, harvests, virility etc...

Though Wright did not exhibit his work in a commercial gallery until he was 40 years old, he steadily thereafter won favour with the international art establishment.

By this time however, Bonnard's style of oil painting had fallen out of favour with the post-war world, which found his luxurious colours not fitting with the times.

Under the stress of work, and finding himself slipping out of favour with New York critics, he took his own life at the age of 41.

He fell out of favour with the king and died in 1530, whereby his possessions were appropriated by Henry for his own use — angels and unfinished tomb included.

The artists who made the cut and are profiled in this weighty hardback, each with a generous amount of illustration, either work figuratively or use a laden, refreshingly heavily worked abstraction that seems to have fallen out of favour with the market.

Assuming you want to curry favour with the mysterious Mr. X and ostensibly recieve some kind of reward.

While it certainly found favour with players of a pugilistic persuasion, the system was also home to many other game styles.

Offering cutting - edge power and robust, easily interchangeable cartridges, MVS quickly found favour with amusement operators who were keen on reducing their reliance on expensive and often fragile arcade boards.

Learn to survive as a penniless urchin, complete objectives, collect items and garner favour with the spies of the secret service.

The genre quickly fell out of favour with the advent of consoles capable of flinging around textured polygons, but in recent years platformers have once again crept back thanks to indie developers.

The centre point of this Fable II temple is a giant device titled The Wheel Of Unholy Misfortune — a torture machine you could use to sacrifice civilians in order to curry favour with the dark lord.

Admittedly, Microsoft returned the favour with Kinect, but even that's a mark in the Xbox 360's favour: its motion sensor became the fastest - selling consumer electronic device in history, and Microsoft releasing it as a peripheral meant it did so without compromising the console's strengths in traditional «hardcore» gaming.

Whilst Final Fantasy XIII represented some positive moves forward for the series, it's Kingdom Hearts that has always found most favour with me personally: perhaps it's the Disney characters, perhaps it's the real time battles, perhaps it's the consistent story.

The 3D action platformer has been having a bit of a resurgence in the past few years with collect - a-thons featuring anthropomorphic animal protagonists once again finding favour with gamers.

His iOS arena shooter PewPew2, which recently underwent an Android makeover, has met favour with both reviewers and consumers.

Housemarque may have found recent favour with their PS4 launch title Resogun, and Super Stardust Delta on the Vita was divine, but plunging into their back catalogue for this particular release does raise a few eyebrows.

MS tried to swing the market in their favour with the HD Drive but we all know how that turned out MS couldn't just replace the drive after the Blu Ray proved a success because it would have screwed over the however many million users before Blu Ray got established as the new CD Format are MS using the blu ray drive now yes because it has been well established as the market standard now but in a parallel universe maybe the Blu Ray failed and they're still using CDs

Basically, the tools at your disposal are typically Medieval; you'll either be winning favour with your enemies by marrying their women or filling their pockets, or you'll be ruining their war with planned assassinations or smear campaigns.

You'll be doing your taste buds a favour with all those teahouses, cafes, dairy centres, strawberry farms and nut plantations.

Its natural beauty and high elevation (900m) is imagined to have found favour with God, who given the choice would have settled here.

All is well in the consult until the moment that Chomper decides that the time is neigh to chomp, and Bruiser returns the favour with a bit of bruising.

At any rate a Greyhound - like dog was destined to find its way, perhaps through Persia, to Afghanistan, where it grew a long, shaggy coat for protection against the harsh climate and found favour with the royal and aristocratic families of that land.

Most people in South Korea don't regularly eat dog, and the practice is increasingly falling out of favour with the younger generation who are more likely to have never eaten it, or eat it once or twice a year at special occasions;

Meaning: To be in trouble or out of favour with someone.

What one would expect to be a stable business is not so, suggesting the company is being battered by competition or is out of favour with its customers, and management does not appear forthcoming with the details.

This is a popular choice although it's lost favour with designers in the last decade.

We favour those with strong earnings and reasonable debt.

We take a contrarian approach and actively seek stocks that are out of favour with investors or which have been «forgotten» by the market.

Gone is the critically acclaimed and award winning 1.0 EcoBoost engine that couldn't find favour with Indian customers.

This should help it find favour with those looking for a spacious SUV that's nice to drive and comfortable enough to be driven around in too.

BMW's X3 hasn't always enjoyed favour with the motoring press.

«The new Audi S4 will undoubtedly find favour with Australian buyers.

The downside is that an Atkinson engine isn't as powerful as an Otto - cycle engine, which is why it gradually fell out of favour with car manufacturers.

The Maruti Vitara Brezza, despite its relatively straightforward styling, has won favour with Indian buyers on account of its traditional, two - box SUV appeal.

The two drivers set about clawing back the deficit but it wasn't until the final round of pit stops — with just over an hour of the race left to run — that the tables turned back in their favour with a re-shuffling of positions after another flawlessly fast turnaround by the No. 4 pit crew led by Brian Hoye.

Tiguan has claimed fuel economy of 8.1 L / 100 km, compared to the 3008's 7.0 L. No doubt the Tiguan's improved towing capacity and all - wheel - drive off - road capability will see it win favour with many local buyers.

«May sales demonstrate Renault is continuing on an upward trajectory, and that our model range is finding favour with buyers who appreciate the value and pleasure a Renault product delivers,» Justin Hocevar, Managing Director of Renault Australia said.

It's No. 14 there for 2014; in Canada, where smaller, more fuel - efficient SUVs find greater favour with the buying public, it's 27th.

Neither were desperately revered for their dynamic abilities and didn't receive fawning critical approval from the press, yet they both went on to find favour with their owners and today the Z8 has become something of a collector's item with big money being paid for examples with low miles and perfect provenances.

You're not really doing yourself a favour with that, and neither are you doing the engine a favour.

Designed as a grown up, mature supermini in standard form, the Polo GTI has never really found favour with enthusiasts thanks to this underlying conservatism.

Even with its lack of power, Toyota's crossover is still among the more entertaining cars to drive in this class, and the promise of high levels of efficiency and long - lasting durability mean it'll undoubtedly find favour with some.

Such an approach is likely win favour with boards of governors, tasked with myriad, competing demands for financing.

Sook - hee begins to lose control over her con, as soon as she allows her feelings for Hideko to erupt, losing favour with the Count and hurting Hideko in ways she never expected to.