This piece has attracted much favorable notice in the professional world, having been reprinted in =The Troy Times=.
Renshaw makes his initial appearance before the members of the United, producing a very favorable impression with his pure, attractive prose.
Rigid impartiality, the critic's greatest asset, is manifest throughout the review, and we thoroughly appreciate the favorable mention not infrequently accorded us.
On learning of this movement, Mardonius set fire to what of Athens remained, and fell back on the city of Thebes, in Boeotia, as a more favorable field for the battle which now seemed sure to come.
There was a party in Thebes favorableto Sparta, at whose head was a man named Leontiades.
As this new expedition marched, the gods, which had opposed the former with hostile signs, now showed their approval with favorable portents.
Sometimes, under favorable circumstances on their rugged peaks, one could get the full benefit of the enormous hot sun for whose actinic rays the Martian's starved system yearned.
Bell and Jamison started out well before dawn with a favorablewind and tide, in the small launch the wizened Welshman placed at their disposal.
I think you will place a favorableconstruction on my visit when I mention my motive.
Encouraged by my favorable report of the illustrations which he had submitted to my judgment, Sir Jervis proposed to make me useful to him in a new capacity.
Among his fellow-creatures, children and dogs were the only critics who appreciated his merits without discovering the defects which lessened the favorable appreciation of him by men and women.
He is cheerfulness itself; he takes a favorable view of everything; his sweet temper never differs with anybody.
Cecilia was disappointed; Emily was grieved; Mr. Wyvil's favorable opinion began to waver; Francine was disgusted.
After careful examination, he arrived at a favorable conclusion.
On the subject of Francine, Alban only ventured to add that she had not produced a favorableimpression on him, and that he could not think her likely, on further experience, to prove a desirable friend.
But it was so evidently in Francine's interests to present her conduct in the most favorable light, that the discovery failed to excite his suspicion.
The most favorable conclusions do not place the mean temperature higher than forty-eight degrees Fahrenheit.
But in neither case is this departure from fullness sufficient to have any appreciable effect on the planet’s brightness, and, moreover, it does not occur when the planet is in the most favorable position for us to see it.
This can be done by means of a powerful telescope, because it is possible in this way to shut off the light of surrounding bodies; but, of course, the conditions are not as favorable as if midnight observations could be made.
These favorableoppositions occur in the summer because the earth is in line in the latter part of August with that point in the orbit of Mars where the planet makes its nearest approach to the sun.
This is due largely to her extreme brilliancy and a peculiar silvery appearance that none of the other planets have; but also, in part, to her limited range in the sky, and her favorable situation for observation.
The others vary in brilliancy according to their distance from these favorable and unfavorable dates, all the summer ones being quite brilliant, and all the winter ones much less so.
This is more than ten times farther than we are from Mars at that planet’s mostfavorable oppositions, and yet Jupiter is much brighter at such times than Mars ever appears to be.
His average distance from the earth at opposition is seven hundred and ninety-four million miles, but at the most favorable opposition it may be fifty million miles nearer than that.
The circumstances may well be considered felicitous if one succeeds in getting a glimpse of him once or twice a year--at his favorable situation in the evening in the spring and the morning in the autumn.
The very best and most brilliant oppositions occur in the latter part of August or in the early part of September; the least favorable ones occur in February.
Under very favorable conditions Ganymede and Callisto can be seen by the naked eye; but a good many persons think they see the moons of Jupiter when they see only some small stars in that region.
The aid of a telescope is necessary in order to see the planetoids, though it is said that Vesta, under very favorable conditions, sometimes comes within the limit of visibility.
One of the seven was elected, taking the name Gregory XIV, and no pope of the century was more unconditionally favorable to the wishes of a Spanish king.
The situation was all the more favorable in that Louis XIV declared war against Spain in that year for the fourth time in the reign.
He granted them a favorable peace, and then when they were returning to their homes unprepared for an attack he fell upon them, and mercilessly put them to death.
Sidenote: The war with England and its favorable issue.
The age-long war of the stock-raisers against the farmers was usually favorable to the former, who were wont to appropriate commons for their animals and even to enter cultivated fields and damage or despoil them.
In political affairs, too, Jaime I established a system more favorableto monarchy.
To avoid such disputes and to assure Spain of an ally in Italian affairs Charles I and Philip II bent their efforts to procure the election of popes who would be favorable to them.
The Sicilians were not favorable to Jaime's agreement, and proceeded to elect Fadrique king, resisting Jaime's attempts to enforce his treaty.
The relation of the state to the guilds facilitated the application of the new economic ideas which were favorable to the freedom of labor and hostile to the guilds.
In this period, despite the internal dissension of the Moslem state, the Christian frontier did not pass the Guadarrama Mountains even at the most favorable moments, leaving Aragon and central and southern Spain in the enemy's hands.
Spain was well prepared for the war, besides which the favorable state of her relations with Portugal, and indeed with other countries, was a source of strength.
Both a merchant and a naval marine had existed since the ninth century, and the former was encouraged by the suppression of taxes and by favorable treaties with the Italian states.
Various sources of supply had long been considered, but he had been, from the first, an advocate of the Massabesic project, and his influence had done much to secure its favorable consideration.
The campaign in Mexico, with its varied experiences, had, without doubt, a marked and favorable effect upon the subject of this sketch.
The favorable exhibit made by the textile fabrics of Manchester was in no small degree owing to the care with which he looked after their disposal.
It is favorable to health and therefore near that organ, and being free from selfishness it is not far behind Conscientiousness.
The comparison with Vergil is still more striking and more favorable to the Italian poet.
This would seem to be a sort of hedging, as if the terms of the comparison of the Thirteenth with other centuries were to be made more favorable by the establishment of different standards.
Even in the circle of students of philosophy who are outside the influence of scholasticism, there is no doubt that in recent years an opinion much more favorableto the Schoolmen has gradually arisen.
St. Louis thought this a favorable opportunity for getting in touch with the Eastern Potentate and so he dispatched at least two missions into Tartary at the head of the second of which was William of Rubruk.
Abandon and forsake may be used in a favorable or unfavorable sense.
Acceptance” is the state of being accepted; as the acceptance of a position or office; acceptation is the favorable admission of or acquiescence in a matter, or assent to a belief.
It means happied, or made happy by those favorable circumstances which have happened to us.
To gain was future to the attempt, and failed because the circumstances indicated by the event, were insufficient to produce so favorable a result.
You will allow me to bespeak your favorable attention, and to insist most strenuously on the propriety of a free and thoro examination into the nature and use of these words.
It involved, of course, as does any journey in those waters, even under favorable conditions, unceasing watchfulness and skill in ice navigation, but the trip was without pronounced adventure.
The transition from the compulsory industry of civilization to the voluntary, but not yet attractive, industry of Association, is not favorable to the highest industrial effects.
One of the first of these spiritualistic attempts, and probably a favorable specimen of the whole, was the Mountain Cove Community.
Through the public prints, persons favorable to the Association were invited to join, which had the effect of drawing many of the usual mixed characters from various parts of the country.
In short, this Community began its career under the most favorable auspices; and if any men and women in the world could have succeeded, these should have done so.
One very favorable feature in this institution is, that they are entirely out of debt, and intend to remain so; they do not owe, and are determined never to owe, a single dollar.
It would be astonishing if an experiment initiated by such a class of thinkers should succeed under the most favorable auspices.
One of them entitled "A Day with the Shakers," is an elaborate and very favorable exhibition of their doctrines and manner of life.
I had never heard much of this Phalanx, and what little had been said, gave me no very favorable opinion of either location or people, and in consequence I went there somewhat prejudiced against them.
On the departure of the Rappites, persons favorable to Mr. Owen's views came flocking to New Harmony (as it was thenceforth called) from all parts of the country.
When refinement and intelligence are rendered general, the superstructure of society will be built under the favorable circumstances which such a work requires.
As far as their means and their utmost exertions can go, they will not suffer so favorable an opportunity for the realization of their fondest hopes to pass unimproved.
There was a stern will, an iron-like reality, about this Gore, which would have easily made him the chief of a band of pirates, had his environments been favorable to such a course of life.
The fundamental principles of the republic, to which the humblest white man, whether born here or elsewhere, may appeal with confidence, in the hope of awakening a favorable response, are held to be inapplicable to us.
In all the songs of the slaves, there was ever some expression in praise of the great house farm; something which would flatter the pride of the owner, and, possibly, draw a favorable glance from him.
When he had anything to say or do about us, it was said or done in a wholesale manner; disposing of us in classes or sizes, leaving all minor details to Aunt Katy, a person of whom the reader has already received no very favorable impression.
I visited and lectured in nearly all the large towns and cities in the United Kingdom, and enjoyed many favorable opportunities for observation and information.
I was now not only ashamed to be contented in slavery, but ashamed to seem to be contented, and in my present favorable condition, under the mild rule of Mr. F.
I hated slavery, always, and the desire for freedom only needed a favorable breeze, to fan it into a blaze, at any moment.
I am now at the beginning of the year 1836, a time favorable for serious thoughts.
The intense desires, now felt, to be free, quickened by my present favorable circumstances, brought me to the determination to act, as well as to think and speak.
Several passes across the mountains seemed favorableto his purpose, especially those of the St. Bernard, the Simplon and Mont Cenis.
The Saxon prisoners were sent back free to their sovereign, and the elector was granted a favorable peace and honored with the title of king.
The mutual aid and benefit feature is secondary to the protective purpose, which is to secure the most favorable conditions of labor that can be obtained.
John Ross, a half-breed chief of the Cherokees, of unusual ability, brought about the removal under conditions morefavorable than often occurred.
The World's Opinion=] This is but an outline sketch of this remarkable case, which embraced many circumstances favorableto Dreyfus which we have not had space to give.
Action was delayed until a favorable moment, and after the victory of Antietam the President called his cabinet together and announced that he was about to issue the Proclamation of Emancipation.
It was the last favorable report, for they were quickly overwhelmed with tidings of defeat and disaster.
It was hoped that the name of the celebrated French leader would have a favorable influence on the troops of the French garrison of Rome.
On one of these occasions I accompanied him, and when we came to a favorable place, father signaled to the steersman, and he turned the boat up.
Then if the wind is favorable and blowing from them to you, it is possible to get a shot at them; but if the wind is blowing from you to them, you can't get within gunshot of them.
But we met not many more times at my father's house, under so favorable and happy circumstances, nor gathered around his board with everything in such good cheer, and prospects so bright.
Defn: Likelihood of the occurrence of any event in the doctrine of chances, or the ratio of the number of favorable chances to the whole number of chances, favorable and unfavorable.
A favorable opportunity; a convenient or timely chance; convenience.
Mode of regard, whetherfavorable or unfavorable; favor or anger; mostly in Scriptural phrases.
Its central principle is affirmative thought, or suggestion, employed with the conviction that man produces changes in his health, his finances, and his life by the adoption of a favorablemental attitude.
A place very favorable for the making levies of men.
Hybridizable genera are rarer than is generally supposed, even in gardens where they are so often operated upon, under circumstances most favorable to the production of hybrids.
That which meets with, or one who accomplishes, favorable results, as a play or a player.
The favorable or prosperous termination of anything attempted; the attainment of a proposed object; prosperous issue.
Art is so practised as to conceal art, and create, if possible, a favorable impression.
May I not however advise, that the favorable opportunity which this important Event, added to the Season of the year has offerd, be improvd in fortifying the Harbour so as to render it impracticable for the Enemies Ships to enter it hereafter.
A few days may probably bring on Event which will give a favorable Turn to our Affairs.
The Wish of the Colony with regard to particular Gentlemen has been repeatedly urgd, and I thought that an appointment which has been made since you left us would have given a favorable Issue to our request.
I have been very anxious for some days in regard to our armies in the field, but am considerably cheered, just now, by favorable news from them.
May 23, on the North Anna and partly across it, which ends as follows: "Everything looks exceedingly favorable for us.
I recommend to your favorable consideration the subject of an international telegraph across the Atlantic Ocean, and also of a telegraph between this capital and the national forts along the Atlantic seaboard and the Gulf of Mexico.
Augmented interest is given to this subject by the actual commencement of work upon the Pacific Railroad, under auspices so favorable to rapid progress and completion.
The school is now more full and complete than at any former period, and in every respect entitled to the favorable consideration of Congress.
Although the king of Tidore has always been very favorable to us, the prince his son has been very friendly and of much importance to the Hollanders.
Already on this day (the above date) the ships are to leave this bay, because of the favorable weather that has come.
Serious losses of life and property have been caused by the delays in despatching the trading ships from Manila; the governors should be compelled to send them at the favorable season.
To reach the rails with a heavy load in favorable weather was simple enough; it merely required time.
We hope all who are friendly to the spread of our political views, and all who are favorable to the diffusion of a live, fresh, and energetic literature, will lend us their aid to increase our circulation.
In less than eight days all the Protestants of France were informed of this favorable proclamation, which gave impulse to new emigration.
No improvement about the ranch was definitely undertaken until Rankin had expressed a favorable opinion concerning the project.
If there was nothing more about the work to attract especial attention, the account of the meeting of the kings on the historic "field of the cloth of gold" would entitle the story to the most favorable consideration of every reader.
All this will mean that no corrections are made, except in flagrant cases of slang or grammar, though all bad slips are mentally noted, for introduction at a more favorable time.
Find out where your voice lies when it is left to itself, under favorable conditions, by reading something aloud or by listening to yourself as you talk to an intimate friend.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "favorable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
