Favouritism of government the cause of popular ferment.
A plan of favouritism for our executory government is essentially at variance with the plan of our legislature.
Naples and the South were a century behind the North in all that made for civic efficiency, the taint of favouritism and corruption having spread from the governing circles to all classes of society.
At that time Prussia had lapsed into a state of weakness through the double evils of favouritism and a facing-both-ways policy.
French officers scouted study of the art of war, while most of them looked on favouritism as the only means of promotion.
This was not so racy as the mixed metaphor of a Galway paper, which assures its readers that "the Unionist party will soon be compelled to disgorge the favouritism which for so long has been centred in their hands;" but it might pass.
She made the excuse that she was compelled by financial reasons to be pleasant to the male boarders, and that I could not expect any marked favouritism so long as I kept my tongue concealed inside my damask cheek like a worm in bud.
Hint, for instance, that it is impolitic to show favouritism to one Oriental (such as a Chinese) rather than another, and that you will regard any kindness done to me as the personal favour to yourself.
The latter bear evidence in every district of having been left entirely to themselves, while extreme discontent prevails in consequence of favouritism having regulated the promotions.
England caused by the feeble rule and favouritism of Henry had resulted in the revolt of the barons.
The incapacity and favouritism of Edward occasioned a fresh outbreak, and Hugh le Despenser fell into the hands of the barons, who hanged him after a hasty trial.
In this way, however, a public opinion became established, finding expression in a sex favouritism in the law and even still more in its administration, in favour of women as against men.
One may, for example, find opponents of female suffrage who are strong advocates of sentimental favouritism towards women in matters of law and its administration.
It was a skilfully drafted document, setting forth the danger to religion in the foreground, but touching on all the evils and jealousies which had arisen from the favouritism of Henry III.
The finances of the kingdom were in disorder; favouritism had not been got rid of; and no one could trust the King's word.
Israel with the proud Josephides suffered too severely from favouritism not to repudiate it energetically.
Far inferior to the right of priority of birth, the law of favouritism only feeds hypocrites and stirs up hatred and jealousy in the bosoms of families.
So Fergus Teeman was just in time to come in for the new election, which seemed like a favouritism of Providence to a new man--for, of course, he was put on the committee which was to choose the candidates.
Why there should be this favouritism among the commandments, was not clear to John.
She had boldly declared her firm conviction of Annie's guilt, and had broadly hinted at Mrs Willis's favouritism toward her.
Hester belonged to no class at present, and could look around her, and have plenty of time to reflect on her own miseries, and particularly on what she now considered the favouritism shown by Mrs Willis.
Hester, there has been plenty of favouritism in this school, but do you suppose I shall allow such a thing as this to pass over unsearched into?
I wonder after that Mrs Willis did not see through her, but it is astonishing to what lengths favouritism will carry one.
But, as his Lordship admits, the granting of patents at all under such circumstances was an act of official favouritism which no Lieutenant-Governor with a proper sense of his duty would have permitted.
He had denounced the system of patronage andfavouritism in the disposal of the Crown Lands.
Greed and favouritism had obtained a strong foothold, and scarcely any branch of the public service was efficiently managed.
During his day there was little or no favouritism in public appointments, and but little, if anything, to find fault with in the conduct of the administration.
The members of our delegation should not be discredited by any flavour of presidentialfavouritism or by any taint of Congressional log-rolling.
They are applied to the system of favouritism which was adopted by Henry the Third of France, and to the dreadful consequences it produced.
A plan of Favouritism for our executory Government is essentially at variance with the plan of our Legislature.
This was so glaring a case of favouritism that the Commons, with all their loyalty, expressed their decided disapprobation.
The abilities of Mr. Cooper gave great uneasiness, for they every day forced a passage for themselves to some share of approbation, in the very teeth of favouritism and prejudice.
In no place does favouritism flourish with much more rank luxuriance than in that city--in no place do personal prepossessions more frequently operate to the overthrow of judgment, to the exclusion of merit, and to the fostering of incapacity.
The favouritism of the crown as shown in land grants.
The objects which this society proposed to itself were the abolition of the invidiousfavouritism shown to Circassian officers, and the deposition of Ismail, the sovereign.
Nothing comes of all this, whether we look at the crooked policy of the one party, or at the fleshly favouritism of the other; all is disappointment and shame, under the rebuke of the holiness of the Lord.
But Isaac's fleshly favouritism and appetites had made him careless and forgetful of this, and he would fain have made the elder, Esau, the heir of the promise.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "favouritism" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
