| Local opinion had been almost evenly split, 45 per cent of those questioned in a radio poll favouring cancellation. |
| While researching a book, Barker goes straight to primary sources, favouring public records, diaries, letters. |
| The public interest in preserving the confidentiality is balanced against other public interests favouring disclosure. |
| Those favouring an armistice hoped that a negative reply from Roosevelt would deprive their opponents of a valuable trump card. |
| The free settlers in this area were the leading opponents of his favouring of the emancipist cause. |
| As consul, he used violence to force through legislation favouring Pompey and Crassus and giving himself the governorship of Gaul. |
