He would not have to look back and compare his last term unfavourably with the glories of yester year.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Loom of Youth] Reference

Ms Munene had spoken "unfavourably" of Mr Njuguna, she said.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Zealand Herald - Top Stories] Reference

The levy level also compared unfavourably to the percentage.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The cringing or pleading kind predisposes one unfavourably.    From Wordnik.com.  [Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.)] Reference

But he compares their work unfavourably with the passage of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1] Reference

Bulgaria, will probably react unfavourably on our own trade.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personality in Literature] Reference

Generals has been unfavourably received by the Defence authorities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 8, 1917] Reference

At first the Nationalist Party reacted unfavourably to the protests.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise of the South African Reich - Chapter 4] Reference

The book was received very unfavourably, but Borrow meant having his.    From Wordnik.com.  [Souvenir of the George Borrow Celebration Norwich, July 5th, 1913] Reference

South Africa's skills levels compared very unfavourably to other countries.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Samuel Quirk read the letter to his wife, commenting unfavourably on it the while.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grey Town An Australian Story] Reference

The popliteal artery is unfavourably circumstanced for the application of a ligature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Anatomy] Reference

The committee inquired and reported, and of course, reported unfavourably to the judges.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference

To labour the point further, I was contrasting our own period unfavourably with that period.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Interesting too, that the Democrats are trying to unfavourably compare Obama with Mrs. Palin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference

United States might be unfavourably affected and insist that in no circumstances it should be.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him] Reference

In every one of these respects, convicts are differently, and far more unfavourably, circumstanced.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference

The Windows, round-headed and without tracery, contrast unfavourably with the Lancet and Decorated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch] Reference

Very soon the worker looking not to be left behind may regard a 2.5 per cent settlement unfavourably.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charlie Whelan’s war] Reference

The colours it yields are deficient in brightness, and it has otherwise been reported unfavourably of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference

To return to your various criticisms, must I then understand that you think unfavourably of our future?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1] Reference

Their inactivity in the present crisis is most unfavourably commented on by many of the week-end visitors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 14, 1917] Reference

Their numbers compare very unfavourably with the numbers allotted to other nations 'hospitals in the field.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Rimington] Reference

It is the "responsibility" which comes with age which always causes us to compare it unfavourably with childhood.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference

The tiles in the chapel are very bright and gaudy, contrasting unfavourably with the older tiles elsewhere in the building.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Gloucester [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See] Reference

Nor was the vantage of position with the British, for they could not possibly have been more unfavourably situated for defence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Guides] Reference

Before any further progress could be made in them, Pitt, on whose health and strength they had operated unfavourably, was laid in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference

‘Needs a coat of paint,’ said Burden, contrasting it unfavourably with his own attractive, soon to be completely redecorated home.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Guilty Thing Surprised]

I told him I was well aware of his personal charm, but in this instance I was bound to comment unfavourably on the use he had made of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, February 21, 1917] Reference

The "compound of villanous smells" which saluted our nostrils when we entered our dormitory for the night augured unfavourably for repose.    From Wordnik.com.  [What I Saw in California] Reference

In five days we had everything, horses, limbers, field-cookers, Lewis guns, etc., the horses comparing unfavourably with those left behind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918] Reference

Would you believe it? he wrote an article on me in one of the reviews, and he actually had the audacity, sir, to criticize me unfavourably!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drolls From Shadowland] Reference

The trees are gone over once a week during the spring, and the useless buds are rubbed off with the thumb, taking off first those which are most unfavourably situated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gardening for the Million] Reference