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How to use the word favoured in a Sentence?

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The powers the Commission is looking into under the proposal would give it wide discretion to protect not just competition, but favoured competitors, unilaterally departing from the existing global competition law framework in this way would create an uneven playing field, and risks depriving Europeans' access to beneficial services and functionalities.

Kayvan Hazemi-Jebelli

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Unfortunately the information we have ... confirms to us that the plane came down and is lost, no hypothesis can be ruled out, nor can any be favoured over another.

French President Francois Hollande

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The traditional shopping centre model is turning on its head, creative, niche, differentiated store types now seem preferred to replicated options and smaller, focused formats seem favoured over large, cumbersome alternatives.

Belinda Clur

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The only way to achieve spending cuts that will move the needle will be to attack these favoured areas of spending - which is pensions first and foremost.

Christopher Granville

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

But the lack of taxis at certain hours has probably favoured Uber in France, and it's true that car sharing has developed most of all in France over long distances, where there are no cheap buses running.

Flavien Neuvy

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If this situation where a risk-off approach by investors is favoured drags on, markets are running the risk that the recent positive sentiment derived from the QE announcement will fade more and more into the background.

Markus Huber

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Those whom fortune has never favoured are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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