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Example sentences for "more favorable"

  • He would gladly have found some pretext to ring and to make her acquaintance; however, none occurred to him, so he deferred it until a more favorable opportunity.

  • But I'm afraid we shall not get rid of this gloomy guest so quickly; he's only watching for a more favorable opportunity to steal in again, though I don't understand what he hopes to find here.

  • He could not be angry; only yesterday he had himself weighed possibilities and struggled with impressions, which placed this mysterious creature in no more favorable light.

  • In fact, if it were not for you and your daughter, I should be wiser to defer our lessons till a more favorable time.

  • It is a matter of great surprise to look at the stringy roots of the wild carrot and parsnip, and then to note the astonishingly great improvement which has resulted from their subjection to more favorable conditions.

  • After this failure, Canning's zeal in the Catholic cause is said to have declined; but he doubtless felt his impotence, and waited only till a more favorable opportunity of serving the Catholic interests should arrive.

  • Well, was it more favorable to political liberty?

  • Those who voted differently from their former votes were influenced by the conviction of the necessity of the change, and despair on both sides of a more favorable rate of the slaves.

  • By these means two advantages will be gained; the Hebrews will have justice done them, and thou wilt be able to attend constantly on God, and procure him to be more favorable to the people.

  • This incident gave me even a more favorable opinion of Meade than did his great victory at Gettysburg the July before.

  • The conditions for battle were much more favorable to us than they had been for the first two days of the investment.

  • No moment could be more favorable to the Huguenots and the German Protestants than the present to seek a market for their dangerous commodity in the Netherlands.

  • No more favorable opportunity or time to visit Europe will likely occur.

  • I could not have asked for a more favorable ending of the matter.

  • The national banking system, if continued at all, will be a monopoly in the hands of those already engaged in it, who may purchase government bonds bearing a more favorable rate of interest than the three per cent.

  • Among the European cities I have visited, I recall none that made a more favorable impression on my mind than Vienna.

  • Later, the prognosis is more favorable, the treatment the same.

  • Prognosis would be more favorable in private practice than in hospital or asylum service.

  • The prognosis is more favorable in cases in which sleep and the appetite are maintained, and in those in which the disturbance of the respiratory organs is slight.

  • In general, the prognosis is more favorable in dilatation without stenosis.

  • More favorable notices of both poems will be found in Critical Review, VIII, pp.

  • A more favorable notice of the volume appeared in the Critical Rev.

  • Gazette, published a more favorable review, and a few weeks later (p.

  • The eighteen articles in favor of Belgium were, on the other hand, replaced by twenty-four others, more favorable to the Dutch, which Leopold was compelled to accept.

  • He hoped, at that time, by summoning the whole of the mountain tribes to arms and leading them to Vienna, to compel the enemy to accede to more favorable terms of peace.

  • As the war between England and Holland still continued, his relatives and friends urged him not to expose himself to the danger of a daily change of affairs, and he again put off his voyage to a more favorable time.

  • Lessing had carried this idea in his mind for several years; but he could not have executed it at a more favorable time.

  • Her Government has demanded other conditions more favorable to her navigation, and which should also give extraordinary encouragement to her manufactures and productions in ports of the United States.

  • The congress of ministers from several of those nations which assembled at Panama, after a short session there, adjourned to meet again at a more favorable season in the neighborhood of Mexico.

  • In Germany during the last two decades each census has shown a more favorable proportion.

  • Measures and institutions like the ones described above will make agriculture much more favorable.

  • He says there will be a great deal to alter in your narration, and that it must assume a different face, more favorable both to the British and Indians.

  • In this case, much time will have been saved by the execution of the bonds at this moment, and the proposition will be presented under a more favorable appearance, according to the opinion of the bankers.

  • He won the game, but still Montezuma was not disposed to yield to the fates, and still persecuted his magicians in the hope to elicit a more favorable prognostication, but in vain; the magicians all agreed with the Tezcucan monarch.

  • The Tepanec king took possession of Tenayocan and had himself declared emperor of the Chichimecs, Quinantzin apparently making at first no opposition, but awaiting a more favorable opportunity to regain his power.

  • If the case were not so; if there were, evidently, and to common experience, more favorable chances of pecuniary success in one business than in others, more persons would engage their capital in the business.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    charming woman; criminal case; more advanced; more cards; more cheerful; more considerable; more dangerous; more death; more definite; more equal; more feet; more fortunate; more grace; more honorable; more like; more literally; more nearly; more necessary; more prudent; more questions; more rapid; more real; more rows; more sensitive; more than; more usually