Example sentences of "[prep] favour of [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The catalyst for the leadership contest was Keating 's revelation on May 30 that Hawke had made a secret promise in November 1988 to resign as Prime Minister in favour of Keating after the 1990 election . |
| 2 | The new policy will drop , for the first time since its introduction in the early Eighties , a presumption in favour of house-building at the expense of other conservation considerations . |
| 3 | Hank Holland president and chief executive officer said the firm would continue to support its E and M mainframe series software for another seven to ten years , but would start to reduce research and development expenditure in favour of client/server over the next three years . |
| 4 | On Jan. 19 a referendum in South Ossetia produced an overwhelming majority in favour of independence for the region and its reintegration into the Russian Federation [ for December 1991 independence declaration see p. 38657 ] . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't think it will at all , and the overwhelming majority in favour of Maastricht in the House of Commons will show its strength and we will move into the committee stage , ’ he said . |
| 6 | It was also , we think , common ground and is certainly correct that , against this background , any ambiguity in the Act should be resolved in favour of consistency between the Act and the Convention , the presumption being that the legislature was seeking to give effect to the principles of the Convention and would not lightly legislate inconsistently with the United Kingdom 's treaty obligations thereunder : see Garland v. British Rail Engineering Ltd. [ 1983 ] 2 A.C. 751 , 771 . |
| 7 | Sept. 20 : The French referendum produces a vote narrowly in favour of ratification of the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 8 | The knockers — as their name implies — eschew legitimate business opportunities such as antique fairs or auctions in favour of work on the doorstep . |
| 9 | This change in relative prices would have been rational if it had reflected any real improvement in the competitive power of electricity ( and there had been a continuing shift in favour of electricity for the whole century ) , but now the shift was artificially exaggerated by historic cost accounting in a period of inflation , and by temporarily depressed investment levels . |
| 10 | Its only important recommendation was that the vestiges of the competition should be preserved by employing the prizemen in favour of Pennethorne on the Foreign Office . |
| 11 | Although Byzantium made some inroads in Dalmatia during the next two centuries , the issue was finally settled in favour of Rome at the end of the ninth century by the Croatian prince Branimir ( 879–92 ) . |
| 12 | The parliament of the self-proclaimed Serbian Republic of Bosnia-Hercegovina ( SRBH ) , which claimed to cover 63.5 per cent of Bosnian territory , on Sept. 16 declared itself in favour of union with the FRY . |
| 13 | The problem , in short , was to find a system where the landowner could continue to create all the beneficial interests he wished in favour of members of the family , and , at the same time , would be able to deal with the land , by sale , long lease , or mortgage , as if he were a sole owner . |
| 14 | The Central University was temporarily closed ; the two clauses of the " Spaniards ' Charter " which recognized freedom of movement and limited time of detention were suspended ; and the leaders of the student movement in favour of democracy in the universities were rounded up and arrested . |
| 15 | On the other hand , he asserts , via a peek at Umberto Eco 's La Struttura Assente ( 1968 ) that ‘ the focus of aesthetic practice moved … dramatically in favour of sculpture as the predominant fine art practice ’ . |
| 16 | However , the party 's newly elected deputies decided in favour of negotiations on the formation of a " grand coalition " , and these were opened on March 28 . |
| 17 | Letters 32 to 49 of the RNI were all written on 1 March with the express purpose of pulling out every stop in favour of Otto with the crowned heads of Europe , and especially with the kings of England and of France . |
| 18 | That the American Pavilion , where a grand presentation of painting and sculpture would surely have been expected , will not , in fact , show any works of art underlines how far the subject has been marginalised in favour of achievements in the fields of science , discovery and other disciplines . |
| 19 | An indication of what was to follow was given on 12 June when Roberto Agramonte , a moderate who was in favour of conciliation with the United States , was replaced as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs by radical nationalist Raúl Roa . |
| 20 | There were a numbers of factors which pointed strongly in favour of Ohio as the more appropriate forum for the trial of the disputes . |
| 21 | Meeting to-day , the Council of the Law Society joined the growing body of legal opinion speaking out in favour of incorporation of the European Convention on Human Rights [ ECHR ] into UK domestic law . |
| 22 | ‘ I did n't have the slightest desire to see the restitution of my father 's property , ’ he added in that 1968 interview , and ‘ I was always in favour of socialism in the sense of nationalisation of major means of production . ’ |
| 23 | On June 20 , after a long debate , 377 Bundestag deputies voted in favour of Berlin as the seat of the united German legislature and government , while 320 deputies voted in favour of Bonn . |
| 24 | It is interesting to examine the conditions which allowed him to argue so positively in favour of modernism within the Review . |
| 25 | GIST teachers were slightly less traditional and more in favour of equality of the sexes than other teachers . |
| 26 | The Council declared that this reflected the will of the Serbs , as expressed by an overwhelming vote in favour of autonomy in the unofficial referendum conducted in August . |
| 27 | A territorial approach to treaty succession necessitates an abandonment of the ‘ clean slate ’ presumption of non-succession , as does the policy argument in favour of continuity in the development of international law through the conclusion of , and succession to , multipartite treaties . |
| 28 | The committees therefore discriminate in favour of candidates under the age of 35 at the expense of those who have taken longer to reach senior registrar level because they have had to start again after moving from another country , were older when they entered medical school , or have had time off for sick leave or maternity leave . |
| 29 | Also in May the PSL complained at its exclusion ( in favour of candidates from the Citizens ' Committees , Solidarity 's electoral organization ) from state appointments , saying that its continued participation in the Mazowiecki coalition government would depend on a " political equilibrium " being reached . |
| 30 | At Amsteg motorists who are in haste to reach a further destination have an opportunity to leave the old Gotthard road in favour of entry to the fast N2 motorway before the old road enters the steepest and most tortuous part of the route . |