A spirit of favoritism to the Bank of the United States.
Defn: Undue attachment to relations; favoritism shown to members of one's family; bestowal of patronage in consideration of relationship, rather than of merit or of legal claim.
The step he now took was not a piece of favoritism toward Pershing--it arose from a desire to have the most efficient men at the head of the army.
In the third place, anonymous literary criticism opens wide the door of malice on the one hand, and of undue favoritism on the other.
If others were less obscure, the Cabinet as a unit was none the less notable as the creature of Presidential will, where Chance vied with Favoritism as arbiter.
You bribe your comrades for theirfavoritism too openly.
Under the provisions of the acts of the General Assembly, passed at the session of 1877, the danger of favoritism has been very much safeguarded and needs supplementing in only minor particulars.
They point, at least, to the necessity of such legislation as may be adequate to prevent even possible suspicion of favoritism in the future.
Such sources of information are frequently unreliable and inaccurate and their use subjects him to the charge of favoritism and to the danger of acting in the interest of special groups or special localities.
Favoritism should be strictly excluded: the misuse of testimonials has been often pointed out; it is the plague of our administrations.
In examinations there are the same dangers to avoid: for here, also, it is unfortunately too much a general belief that favoritism is the rule, and that testimonials go for everything.
This story serves to illustrate the point that political "pulls" and favoritism are rampant in the service, and are the cause of much disgust among officers.
Hence while experts differed in regard to the wisdom of one part or another of the bill, it was not charged that its schedules bore the imprint of favoritism for any particular private interests.
Free passes, which had hitherto been productive of much favoritism and the source of political corruption, were strictly forbidden, except to a few specified classes.
In the second place, there is no such thing now as favoritism of any sort to interfere with the recognition of true merit.
In the first place, nofavoritism could be legally shown.
Under a form of favoritism by a Government that was the personal property of Mr. Kruger, anything could be done under the pretense of saving the rulers of the land said to be suffering by pestilence and famine.
By this is meantfavoritism in freight rates between shippers and between localities.
I have another objection to this policy: the favoritism that is involved in it.
Of favoritism in appointments Mr. Gallatin could not be accused.
Dix, made a public and official remonstrance against the palpable favoritism displayed towards this person in his then existing custody as a prisoner in the Penitentiary.
Every motive on earth that could induce men to act through favoritism was upon the other side of the question.
Freedom of trade with all the world seemed very desirable to the planters who regarded the restrictions of the Navigation Acts as gross favoritism and partiality to the rising mercantile class.
The tribunal exercised a check on the governor in this particular and saw to it that in granting this permission he did not show favoritism or otherwise violate the laws of the royal patronage.
These may be attributed both to the powerlessness and inefficiency of the governors, and to their cupidity and deliberate favoritism to the encomenderos.
The governor had also exercised favoritism in the distribution of cargo space, thus rewarding his friends and punishing his enemies.
This had been done by allowing favorites to hold more than one office, and by favoritism in the sale of these positions.
This had resulted in favoritism and in a perversion of justice to the private ends of the governor and of his friends.
After the orgies of bribe-taking, favoritism and such like in the heyday of Perennis and of Cleander, all classes of our society became habituated to ignoring contraventions of rules.
The first fight that Roosevelt found on his hands was to keep politics and every kind of favoritism absolutely out of the force.
There were other more adroit ways in which the favoritism could be accomplished; but the general principle was the same.
Ere they hewed the Sphinx's visage Favoritism governed kissage, Even as it does in this age.
They filled eight thousand rupee lotteries on the Broken Link Handicap, and the account in the Pioneer said that "favoritism was divided.
