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Example sentences for "favoring"

Lexicographically close words:
favored; favorem; favorer; favorers; favori; favorite; favorites; favoritism; favors; favour
  1. Greeley did Douglas an injustice when he accused him of courting votes by favoring a protective tariff in Pennsylvania.

  2. At the instance of Douglas and his friend Brooks of the News, the Democrats of Morgan County put themselves on record as favoring a State convention to choose delegates to the national convention of 1836.

  3. If it pass laws hostile to slavery, will you annul them, and substitute laws favoring slavery in their stead?

  4. It is worth our while to inquire briefly into these causes, for they illustrate the factors which are at work in favoring or deterring the growth of population.

  5. This addition of military methods seems to have accelerated the movement by favoring efficient and systematic control.

  6. Under these favoring circumstances he spent three months on a leg of his statue; "which is equivalent to saying that I had at last absolutely mastered it," said he.

  7. The opportunity is no less favorable which is now offered your Majesty to employ your liberal and royal hand in favoring and aiding this seminary with an income.

  8. The third object to which the President addressed himself in the message was to call the attention of the poor to the proposition that the Government was favoring the rich through the Bank.

  9. They also charge the Hudson's Bay Company, wrongfully, as favoring the American settlement of the country.

  10. Mr. Moore had peculiar notions of his own about land claims, and had placed upon the committee, I think, Robert Newell, as favoring his and Dr.

  11. It was not yet apprised of the efforts made by Mr. Ogden to supply the Indians with munitions of war, and the determination of the company not to allow itself to be considered by the Indians as favoring the American settlement of the country.

  12. John McLaughlin, who took an active part in favoring the organization, against the wishes and influence of his family.

  13. One party accused him of favoring the aristocrats, the other of sacrificing everything for the applause of the mob.

  14. At the end of that time the number favoring the new way of voting had increased.

  15. Favoring representative government as he did, he was anxious to see such assemblages meet frequently at regular intervals.

  16. Thus engineering opinion is as apt as any other human opinion to undergo a change, and the convictions of one year in favor of a proposition may change into opposite convictions, favoring an opposite proposition, only a few years later.

  17. He reaffirmed his views favoring a lock canal with a dam at Gatun.

  18. The Republican party was regarded in the South and the border States not only as opposed to the extension of slavery, but as favoring the compulsory abolition of the institution without compensation to the owners.

  19. As to myself, while strongly favoring the course that would be the least humiliating to the people who had been in rebellion, I gradually worked up to the point where, with the majority of the people, I favored immediate enfranchisement.

  20. Between the rocks the Red was struggling to his feet, but he moved slowly, favoring his side and one leg; he had not come totally unharmed from his tumble with the pony.

  21. Favoring his still bandaged side, Travis scraped through the door ahead of the others, and came into the place of gray cold.

  22. Travis was favoring a gamble now, since his desperate one with the duel had paid off.

  23. He had even then discussed with his Cabinet an announcement favoring general emancipation.

  24. They drew up a constitution favoring slavery, but this constitution, Walker had promised, was to be submitted in referendum.

  25. High Heaven, kindly favoring his sincere prayers and his most laudable intention, revealed to this excellent man the most approved form and mainstay of his invention.

  26. That it was done in 1450, as asserted by Madden, has not been decisively proved, but the evidence favoring this conclusion deserves consideration.

  27. Though she held herself aloof from intrigues and rivalries, favoring no one and encouraging no slander, she was, strange to say, respected, admired and honored by Protestants and Catholics alike.

  28. Though no doubt sincerely favoring reform, he had, like his predecessor, succumbed to the machine in more than one instance.

  29. Senator Teller, of Colorado, moved a substitute favoring "the free, unrestricted, and independent coinage of gold and silver at our mints at the ratio of 16 parts of silver to 1 of gold.

  30. Only the Populists were a unit in favoring free coinage.

  31. Enclosures were increasing and Parliament was disinclined to protect copyholders against enclosures, favoring those with rights of ownership.

  32. A thought enters the mind which would of itself prompt an act; but before the act can occur, a contrary idea appears and the act is checked; another thought comes favoring the act, and is in turn counterbalanced by an opposing one.

  33. In other words, association is always selective, favoring now this item of experience, now that, above the rest.

  34. Many things contributed to this consolidation of peoples and governments, different circumstances favoring the movement in the several countries.

  35. It occurred to him, as it did not to her, that the mere allegiance and favoring wishes of herself were not sufficient possessions to ensure victory in such a match as she meant.

  36. I deem thee as a favoring sign,-- My destiny resembles thine.

  37. And still she smooths thine angry tides, Tames thy wild heart, and favoring guides The sailor to the port!

  38. It is usually only under exceptionally favoring conditions that foot-fetichism occurs, as in the case recorded by Marandon de Montyel of a doctor who had been brought up in the West Indies.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "favoring" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    advantageous; alike; auspicious; backing; benign; better; brave; bright; conducive; counterfeit; fair; fake; favorable; favored; favoring; following; fortunate; golden; good; gratification; handy; happy; helpful; homogeneous; identical; imitated; imitation; indulgence; instrumental; intermediary; like; lucky; mediating; ministerial; ministering; mock; phony; pleasing; pro; promising; propitious; prosperous; serviceable; similar; simulated; subservient; supporting; toward; useful