Sentences with phrase «find favour»

The argument failed to find favour with the State Commission, which ruled that a person with total disability couldn't be denied benefits of the insurance policy on the ground of being employed.

While he will still report if his proposals find favour, we may expect any implementation is likely to be pushed back somewhat, particularly if primary legislation is required.

Thirdly, the Government's approach in Part 2 of the Bill is to be commended and will, I hope, find favour with Parliament.

Although the multiplicity of views expressed by the variety of Singapore courts and dissenting judges who have considered the matter may lead some to suggest that the position is unclear, it is submitted that the majority decision of the Singapore Court of Appeal is likely to find favour.

There is a simple mathematical aid to the resolution of this difficulty but that device does not find favour with the courts.

It is arguable that my imposing a longer licence period in respect of these prisoners, Art 7 of the European Convention on Human Rights is engaged, although bearing in mind recent cases attempting to highlight differences between the 1991 and CJA 2003 regimes, it is unlikely that such arguments will find favour with the courts, but we shall see!

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

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

Land Rover are launching the new Range Rover Sport in New York for the simple reason that, despite the new RRS having Land Rover abilities off - road, the more compact dimensions of the Sport find favour in the urban jungle.

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.

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

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.

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.

However, the big names in aftermarket dampers — Koni, Bilstein, KW, Öhlins, etc — create products that are developed by professional chassis engineers who have honed their skills in motorsport and have strong ties to the types of car makers that find favour in evo (KW, for instance, supplied the coilovers for BMW's extreme M4 GTS).

Three years after the film exploded on contact, Chicago movie critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert used it on their popular TV show as Exhibit A for a serious discussion about why movies starring Black actors were mostly failing to find favour in white America.

Suki Waterhouse: I tried to find favour with this Maison Margiela sheer dress and gold bodysuit, but the shape and seaming just translated as a bit messy.

What we should be looking to do is to find reforms to devolution that are fair to England and that would also find favour with the Scottish electorate.

But I think anyone who is reasonable — who understands that national security matters, who understands that being able to present intelligence in court matters — I think they will find favour with these proposals.»

«Colours like lilac, mauve and rose will find favour for the day.

Of those who didn't start the match against Reading, Knockaert is the wild card most likely to find favour in Pearson's plans in the Premier league while one might expect Liam Moore to challenge strongly to be first choice at centre back when he is a year older and more experienced.

«When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

But his call for regulation is finding favour within the industry, even if his assumptions and assertions are not.

The»em ergent» «church», as a lot of the neo-protestant church denominations in the last 200 years, have found favour and fuel in the disgruntled pews of America.

It found favour with the Mongol rulers in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and spread widely in China.

But it is finding favour in high places in the Church.

30 And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God.

I would say this man has found favour in the eyes of God.

The biggest concern about Mourinho, it appears, is his historic unwillingness to promote players from the youth set - up, arguably the only area in which Van Gaal has found favour among supporters.

What about Frank Field, whose contribution to the debates on welfare and immigration have generally found favour in Conservative circles?

«But those MPs who have missed no opportunity to tweet and brief against the party's elected leader over the last 10 months will find that their disloyalty finds no favour with party members and will make this an increasingly difficult line to hold.»

A spokesperson said: «It is an excellent piece of work and its contents have found favour with a wide cross section of the medical profession and others involved in medical education and training.

It was the mantra of the low - fat diet craze which first found favour in the 1980s, and blazed a trail through the diet industry for much of the 1990s.

Some have criticised Schindler's List for being a Jewish propaganda tool, but even if the graphic violence and horrific images are as little as half true, that argument still finds no favour with most.

Garland's 2015 directing debut, Ex Machina, was a slow - burning hit which found favour with critics and film festival juries.

After his 2005 debut Yahaan, a contemporary warzone romance, he enjoyed a critical and commercial hit with Vicky Donor, a smart farce that found favour with international audiences drawn to its «sperm - donor» premise.

Rosemary's Baby found favour only in the Best Supporting Actress category, where Ruth Gordon — a 72 - year - old acting neophyte better known as a screenwriter — snagged the prize for her hysterical portrayal of a buttinsky neighbour who leads a coven of Upper West Side witches.

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.

«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.

The digital gauges found favour, but Cooper was bemused that the only way she could tell the time was by glancing at an old - school analog clock.

Ereader newcomers may take a while to find their favoured setting, but we expect that the vast majority will stick with a single setup after a while.

Equities and SIP's (Systematic Investment Plans) have increasingly found favour amongst retail investors, so they are unlikely to be affected by Long Term Capital Gain tax.

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.

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

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.

Not this time though, I actually found myself favouring gentle twists of the handheld over the analogue stick.

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.

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

«As is common with so many of the great American artists of her generation, Marcia's work found favour first in Europe», Fergus McCaffrey commented.

His suggestion that Velazquez was «an ass» and that Picasso was the first painter since Goya to understand Spanish colour will no doubt have found favour at the Villa Californie.

Serving at court in the Hongzhi reign (1488 - 1505), his version of the Ma - Xia style of landscape painting found favour, and became popular, making him a leading master of the Zhe school.