Those favouring an armistice hoped that a negative reply from Roosevelt would deprive their opponents of a valuable trump card. |
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This style is formal, favouring noun clauses as subjects and objects, and often postponing the main verb, or distancing it from the subject. |
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Both were excellent fund-raisers among the wealthy, and they kept up feminine appearances by favouring Parisian fashions. |
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In favouring the obdurate option, United cramped Celtic for room and impressively limited their effectiveness. |
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McCrea's possible loss of juridical advantage is either neutral or a factor favouring Ontario as the appropriate forum. |
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The free settlers in this area were the leading opponents of his favouring of the emancipist cause. |
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He took part in the discussions on the government's policy towards popular education, favouring an unsectarian solution. |
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Not for him playing the percentages, patting the ball round and favouring the cautious above the cavalier. |
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Local opinion had been almost evenly split, 45 per cent of those questioned in a radio poll favouring cancellation. |
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The main disadvantage of an open trial is the possibility of a placebo effect favouring antibiotics. |
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While researching a book, Barker goes straight to primary sources, favouring public records, diaries, letters. |
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The presidency has on a number of occasions played a crucial role in favouring one or other side. |
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Up close, he looked in perfect shape, apart from favouring his left foreleg. |
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Fluently bilingual, Matte speaks in perfect English, while the rest of the band members are split between favouring French or English. |
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In this case, because of the lowball assessments favouring the developer, our experts says that the EIA was neither independent nor fair. |
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As consul, he used violence to force through legislation favouring Pompey and Crassus and giving himself the governorship of Gaul. |
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The Cameroonians were divided in support betweenthe two teams, with a slight majority favouring Italy. |
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Henry III infuriated the barons by favouring foreigners over his own nobility. |
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The public interest in preserving the confidentiality is balanced against other public interests favouring disclosure. |
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Ivory seems to be the colour most brides-to-be are favouring as white may be a little stark in terms of matching accessories. |
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This view is based on a concern that the process should be neutral, rather than favouring one party. |
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In short, the public incline narrowly towards favouring plans for Thatcher's funeral. |
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This requirement became ossified in strict behavioural norms favouring numerous and closely spaced births. |
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Where minimum tillage is used, there can be a high level of inoculum that may last a long time, favouring certain foliar diseases. |
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Energy security means eliminating polluting and vulnerable systems, and favouring the efficient, clean, safe energy production. |
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He was among the young artists who were against academicism taking stances favouring the overcoming of formalistic dogmatism. |
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For relaxation he played the piano by ear, favouring Chopin's Etudes. |
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A philatelist government that pushes laws favouring stamp collecting at the expense of those who don't collect stamps is a bad government. |
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He adjured his personal followers, suspected like him of favouring the Spartans, to fight bravely, and they all perished in the battle. |
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How can I stop my parents obviously favouring their natural grandchildren? |
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Note the presence of gusts favouring the starboard tack on the right of the sailing area. |
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The ADR pays full respect to nature, favouring ecological rosebushes by banning the use of artificial treatments. |
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Programs were under-funded and culturally restrictive, with policies favouring the nuclear family model against the cultural preference for extended kin groups. |
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It is not a question of favouring one or another, by any stretch of the imagination. |
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Double wristband made of elastic fabric. 6 magnets based on magnet-therapy, favouring vasodilation and cellular regeneration. |
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Governments everywhere are favouring locally made goods. Some take comfort from the world's interdependency. |
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As a result of the export-driven recovery, regional growth differentials have increased, favouring exportoriented regions. |
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It fits in with the interests of countries in the region for building strong bonds and favouring exchanges with their neighbours. |
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It is easy to lampoon Mr Bush for adding arsenic to the water or favouring more cases of repetitive-strain injury in offices. |
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Other species favouring this habitat are horsetail and arrowgrass. |
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He feels that you aren't following such principles and are, in fact, favouring one community over another. |
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It should not be the case that the way it is applied ends up favouring certain companies over others. |
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Hence I have no apology for favouring total rejection of this power-hungry proposal. |
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Third, it must distort or threaten to distort competition by favouring certain undertakings. |
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There was clear support for the need to balance the environment and economic interests, with a strong favouring of the environment. |
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These partnerships with local governments will enable professional insertion to be improved whilst favouring the environment and security. |
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Geared towards favouring mobility on both sides of the border, the instrument will connect the job applicants to recruitment structures. |
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Once again, is this government not proving that it is favouring the oil and gas companies over consumers? |
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I take offence to that remark from him that he made on the BBC that I'm favouring the Bengali community. |
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However, Dinamo bristle with pace and mirror the Russian national side in favouring a textbook counter-attacking style. |
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The result: a remarkable oeuvre open to the music of the world, favouring Asian traditions as much as mandinka. |
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And when it comes to product promotion, SSQ makes no compromises, favouring actions that reflect honesty, transparency and integrity. |
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French provides a linguistic channel favouring multifarious contacts in the religious, scientific and cultural fields. |
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Hoopoes breed across most of Europe, except Scandinavia, favouring open country and clumps of old trees including pollard willows, meadows orchards and olive plantations. |
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They will try to look at their audience regularly, without favouring one particular person or just one part of the group. |
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In July 1925, a Commission of Inquiry reported generally favouring the miners position rather than that of the mine owners. |
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Other Conservatives are in the middle ground, favouring stances such as looser regulation and decriminalisation of some drugs. |
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Rail companies accused the government of favouring road haulage through the subsidised construction of roads. |
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The occasion wherof no doubt was some daunger and trouble whereinto he was fallen by favouring some rash attempt of the common people. |
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The smaller teams have complained that the profits are unevenly shared, favouring established top teams. |
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In 1995, Nigel Mansell wasn't retained, Williams favouring Coulthard over him to partner Hill. |
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Throughout the Cold War, both the US and USSR repeatedly accused the UN of favouring the other. |
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By 1969, the cracks started to show within the group, as Robin began to feel that Stigwood had been favouring Barry as the frontman. |
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His playing style evolved from the banjo, favouring down strokes and using a combination of the plectrum and fingerpicking. |
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This is despite many fans and journalists favouring the Dragons to easily win. |
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This affects the style of play required, favouring players who are able to play low accurate shots. |
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They reject using state power to construct a socialist society, favouring strategies such as the general strike. |
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The man and the horse came closer and were Sonny Jacobs of the Diamond Six and a smallish neat sorrel definitely favouring its off forefoot. |
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The climate warmed up gradually, favouring the growth of evergreen trees first and then deciduous forest which brought animals like aurochs. |
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However, he opposed any development of a supranational Europe, favouring a Europe of sovereign Nations. |
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Squat properties are common throughout Amsterdam, due to property law strongly favouring tenants. |
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After the French king was overthrown and France became a republic, secret clubs favouring an Italian republic were formed throughout Italy. |
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Towards the end of the nineteenth century, favouring local opinion, the recognition of individual customs and traditions increased. |
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Finally, Camisea helps us to reduce our current trade deficit in hydrocarbons, mainly by replacing imports of diesel and LPG while favouring exports of LPG surplus. |
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Protogyny and protandry are the underlying mechanisms favouring allogamy in monoecious palms. |
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The Dardanelles Campaign was an attempt by those favouring an Eastern strategy to end the stalemate on the Western Front. |
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Moreover, the evidence suggests that mismeasurement of the degree of economic slack was largely irrelevant for explaining the Great Inflation while favouring a passive-policy description of monetary policy. |
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Half of this volume was gained through agent or coagent roles, a business development angle that Caisse centrale Desjardins has been favouring in recent years. |
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He also argued against hereditary peerages, favouring life peerages instead. |
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Despite officially favouring it, considerable numbers of Labour members opposed the establishment of an assembly. |
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For years, it was assumed that Adolf Hitler ordered the German Army to stop the attack, favouring bombardment by the Luftwaffe. |
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Employer Views: Only 16 percent of employers indicated that annual reporting would be a hindrance to achieving employment equity, a factor favouring the implementation of reporting. |
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Viewed objectively, favouring the E. G. Bührle collection as apposed to concrete art, is a political manifesto, because neither the Bührle pictures nor concrete art can be considered without their social political history. |
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But I think to the court's mind, it at least seemed to be sort of, at least mildly, on behalf or favouring the position of the government, and saying that, oh no, this will reek havoc with the elections system. |
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The negative aspect of this is that in general the private sector is regulated by standards favouring competitiveness and the dominance of the strongest in economic terms. |
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I myself have on many occasions found myself in an awkward situation because of the way all the leaders of the Mediterranean countries criticise the Commission directly, accusing us of favouring Eastern Europe over them. |
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I am not opposed to that, of course, but I believe that favouring dialogue with the USA is also likely to backfire on us when, at a later date, we have to discuss matters with developing countries, particularly ACP countries. |
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Price control policies have been adopted for certain products, favouring large agro-industrial concerns and export growers, but penalizing small growers producing traditional farm products. |
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The Lisbon alternative is to recognise that, in favouring investment and creating an environment where world-beating companies can flourish, Europe's social and environmental model is not an obstacle but an ally. |
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Those favouring exit brush away these points. |
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New terms are also to be set in place, favouring pleasure and festiveness. |
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But his superstition united with his canniness played the Count's game for him, and he ran with his favouring wind through fogs and all till he brought up blindfold at Galatz. |
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They could maintain their previous inflation target, which would be tantamount to favouring a temporary increase in production above potential output. |
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The register is epical and there is succession of scenes: comical, warlike, matrimonial, sung, danced, etc., each one favouring a clear understanding for all. |
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With an entity such as the justice system being biased against one group and favouring another group, many fathers are forced into a corner in what they perceive to be a no-win situation. |
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This may be the reason why in many plants form or function of the flowers makes self-pollination difficult or impossible, thus favouring cross-pollination. |
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Still another consideration favouring Iconoclasm may be found in the intimate connection of iconoclastic doctrine with the emperor's conception of his role as God's vicegerent on earth. |
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I agree with the principle that public money must be used based on need and based on a process, but I don't accept his insinuation that I'm favouring the Bengali community. |
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Unfortunately, we are faced with a government that is squandering this potentially enormous resource by primarily favouring the wealthiest social classes. |
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Lastly, the name Erasmus Mundus' is particularly felicitous, because it gives the programme a more global dimension without favouring the language of any Member State. |
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In particular, banks' retail customers tended to shed equity from their portfolios amid a volatile market environment, favouring relatively safe and liquid deposits. |
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It would be presumptuous to say that the same conditions favouring such a fast resumption of nesting exist in Quebec as well, but it would be quite easy to check this out at little cost. |
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The endangered peregrine falcon nests along the river, favouring the spectacular cliff sides of Kazan Falls, and the river's pure waters support an array of fish, including lake trout and grayling. |
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Quebecers feel the same way as all Canadians, favouring that third option that lies somewhere between the American laissez-faire approach and the social model of continental Europe. |
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The International Centre is particularly concerned that voluntary codes of conduct may run afoul of WTO rules while government policies favouring corporate responsibility could be challenged. |
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The climate is typically Mediterranean, with hot summers and moderate winters, favouring the growth of Mediterranean forest vegetation, such as pines, gorse and rosemary. |
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Our TS-E Series speakers give you smooth, octave-to-octave tonal balance, without favouring one frequency over another, and presenting the mids, highs and lows to perfection. |
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What is prohibited is to allow special dispensations from current environmental requirements with a view to favouring individual companies or industries. |
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In this process, the members of the Education Committee, which tabled the Proposal, came to wonder if the Proposal was lopsidedly favouring kindergartens. |
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The scheme distorts competition because it provides additional liquidity to listed small caps by altering the market value of their stocks and favouring certain undertakings managing the specialised investment vehicles. |
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At the Kodokan Judo Ryu explores the Kata Ju Shiki and Itsutsu not Kata, Waza soft favouring the internal development of the body-Hara Gei-Through its practice and refinement, goal throughout Budokan. |
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It looks, counterintuitively, as though evolution is somehow favouring the spread of a chronic disease. Which it probably is, but not because arthritis is somehow good for rhinos. |
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The presiding officer first recognizes the mover of a proposition or the member of a committee presenting a report and endeavours to alternate recognitions between those favouring and those opposing a question. |
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We cannot believe that by favouring a spending for the future versus traditional spendings, members states will no longer have in mind net contributions. |
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The public is so angry that even honest decisions are sometimes construed as favouring special interests, so babus consider it safest to do nothing. |
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As under present conditions, flow velocities in the Boyd and Sakami rivers will prevent the formation of ice cover, thus favouring the production of large quantities of frazil. |
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According to the proponent, the deforestation of the banks of the reservoir would allow certain impacts to be mitigated while favouring the recolonization of the new banks with vegetation. |
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Isolation of a pure culture may be enhanced by providing a mixed inoculum with a medium favouring the growth of one organism to the exclusion of others. |
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In practical effect, a testator may thus bind himself to make and not to revoke a will favouring a person who has promised to take care of him in old age. |
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By adding materials such as molasses, humic acid, kelp, yucca extract, rock dust the microbial populations may be altered, perhaps favouring bacteria over fungi or vice versa. |
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What can we say then about French interests in Niger, linked to the stockpiling of uranium, which is stirring up a war among the Tuareg and thus favouring the people traffickers? |
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In addition to reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease and certain cancers, favouring neuron development in the foetus, and preventing depression and joint problems, it could help us preserve our mental faculties. |
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Wage moderation is a key factor in favouring the expansion of employment and in helping to create the conditions for a sustainable increase in the potential growth rate of the euro area economy. |
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The result was the transformation of existing industrial policies and the favouring of the private sector which collectively led to a strong, diversified and resilient industrial sector. |
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In pursuing its objectives, the Eurosystem has to act in accordance with the principle of an open market economy with free competition, favouring an efficient allocation of resources. |
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Japan is clearly favouring an approach based on industrial profit. |
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In jurisdictions favouring the latter approach the burden of proof on the abducting parent is clearly greater and the exception is more difficult to establish. |
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We blame our morals and our customs for favouring bad marriages. |
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This heading is intended for experiments carried out in the circus and street art sectors, and brings to light examples of good practice, while favouring a better awareness of professional networks in Europe. |
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George was also perceived as favouring Tory ministers, which led to his denunciation by the Whigs as an autocrat. |
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The performance, however, emphasised his tawdriness in favouring an extended summer coffee over doing his job. |
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Shoppers are also favouring frozen and chilled products, often perceiving them to be of better quality and palatability than canned foods. |
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There wasn''t a fascinator in sight, with the collection favouring hair bows, headbands and even a pork pie hat or two. |
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In South Africa, an Afrikaner minority party, the National Party, came to power in 1948 and enacted a series of segregationist laws favouring whites known as apartheid. |
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During the American Civil War, The Times represented the view of the wealthy classes, favouring the secessionists, but it was not a supporter of slavery. |
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He faced Phil Bloom in New York, the press decision favouring Welsh, before he returned to Canada for a knockout win over Canadian Champion Arthur Ellis. |
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During the French Revolution, the government introduced policies favouring French over the regional languages, which it pejoratively referred to as patois. |
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In addition to those duels favouring Australia, Michael Kasprowicz was dynamite against left-handers in 2004 and England's top three are all mollydukers. |
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At present, the islanders are about evenly split between those favouring independence and those who prefer to continue as a part of the Kingdom of Denmark. |
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The accusations of favouring intellectuality over political commitment or commentary were met with a change of tack, as Stoppard produced increasingly socially engaged work. |
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Socialist MPs favouring outright abolition voted against all the options. |
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Formal excisional biopsies of multiple satellite neck lesions were consistent with a benign vasoformative lesion, favouring an ulcerated pyogenic granuloma. |
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In 1691, the Jesuits accused him of favouring the Jansenist heresy. |
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They do not study Divination, Arithmancy or Defence Against The Dark Arts, favouring instead subjects like maths, English, languages, science and arts. |
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During last June, Air Namibia had cancellation of the flight to Accra, ending months of speculation about certain quarters not favouring continuation of the Accra route. |
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