He finds life, for he shall obtain favour of the Lord, and in his favour is life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)] Reference

Gappah faces the perennial problem for writers from Africa seeking to win favour from the western media: how to avoid being pigeonholed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Story correction] Reference

Interpreting their messages and worshipping them to earn their favour is the big thing to do during the game.    From Wordnik.com.  [well, that was a disappointment] Reference

One thing Petty has always had in his favour is a very strong musical ethic and analogue-is-best sensibility.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mudcrutch by Mudcrutch « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog] Reference

Whether the appearance on the blog returns the favour is a longer-term proposition and the author has to wait for the rewards.    From Wordnik.com.  [What then should we do…? at SF Novelists] Reference

Mr. Caryl gives this a good turn in favour of Job.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)] Reference

It was the bit where he came out in favour of a land tax.    From Wordnik.com.  [Labour conference live – Sunday 26 September] Reference

Virtuosity is eschewed in favour of expression and diction.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Jeffreys obituary] Reference

The west has been in favour of Karpov, the Kremlin against him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chess world shocked as Karpov fails to capture top job] Reference

God's favour is our life; take away that, and we die, we perish, we all perish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)] Reference

That blog cites rumors currently in favour around London's webbist community. ''.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Google might not buy Skype phone service] Reference

"We are on nobody's side and do not come to this with prejudices in favour or against.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Got a legal complaint? Now you can take it to the new legal ombudsman] Reference

One thing in Abbott's short-term favour is that neither Rudd nor Gillard saw him coming.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sydney Morning Herald News Headlines] Reference

Will Straw also argued in favour, saying that 70% of land is owned by 0.3% of the population.    From Wordnik.com.  [Labour conference live – Sunday 26 September] Reference

David Davis said: I am entirely in favour of restricting child benefit from the very well-off.    From Wordnik.com.  [George Osborne moves to reassure Tory MPs amid fears he has misjudged cuts] Reference

For now, consider one question: Might this result actually work in Liverpool's long-term favour?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blogs navigation] Reference

NUJ members likely to reject Mark Thompson's 'final offer', but other unions expected to vote in favour.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC pension vote heads for split result] Reference

Lord George, who expected no favour from the English Government, was, nevertheless, anxious to be "near home.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference

• And we will, for one might argue that those in favour of "clean, green" nuclear have never had it so good.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diary] Reference

Does this mean that you are in favour of VR and of, say, a world where VR is the norm/has taken over our lives?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Q&A with William Gibson] Reference

Many Republicans, including former presidential candidate John McCain, have spoken out in favour of keeping the ban.    From Wordnik.com.  [US military accepts openly gay recruits] Reference

Allowing MPs to cross the floor and retain their parliamentary membership would in the short term favour the African National.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Neutrals are still around, but winter's camel has got paler and sandier and grey has been largely edited out in favour of white.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paris fashion week: wardrobe updates] Reference

Providence in favour of those that return in a way of duty; so that they and others may say that from this day they are blessed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)] Reference

Judges are accused of stereotyping, making a legal presumption in favour of the mother and awarding meagre access rights to dads.    From Wordnik.com.  [Childhood casualties of the family courts] Reference

That the series refuses a literalist interpretation in favour of, well, McGoohan in a monkey mask is part of the whole sodding point.    From Wordnik.com.  [Getting Stoked for The Prisoner Remake?] Reference

There are legitimate philosophical reasons why people – including the poor – might be in favour of lower taxes and less government.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tea Party supporters want to 'take their country back'. To where?] Reference

Brown promised him the Treasury and then reneged in favour of Darling because Balls was too brilliant, too bruising, too controversial.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whatever It Takes: The Real Story of Gordon Brown and New Labour by Steve Richards – review] Reference

I was never in favour of the Fiver's Stop Football campaign, even though my Sheffield Wednesday appear to have carried it on regardless.    From Wordnik.com.  [Another humiliating defeat] Reference

Unite's vote was 82% in favour, while Equity and the Musicians 'Union, which held meetings but not a ballot, also returned yes verdicts.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC strike: NUJ goes it alone] Reference

With Grinderman, Cave ditched his pursuit of painstaking craft in favour of jamming, with his ad-libbed lyrics coming straight from the id.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grinderman] Reference

When the service was shelved in favour of a new direction, many of those users were angry that something so important to them was being sidelined.    From Wordnik.com.  [As 12seconds.tv closes, what is the future for video communities?] Reference

So it will be smart to embrace a pluralist and reformist agenda – which means, among other things, campaigning in favour of the alternative vote.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ed Miliband: You thought fighting your brother was tough. That was the easy bit] Reference

This is Celtic Manor 2010, where crowds are overwhelmingly pro-European and the sloppy conditions are overwhelmingly in favour of the European players.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ryder Cup 2010: Colin Montgomerie feels the force is with Europe] Reference