favour someone with something

Examples of favouring

favouring

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

In this article, rather than favouring one type of indicator above another, we have used a combination of both monetary and non-monetary indicators.
This wide distribution of strains can be explained by the world's population mobility favouring the spread of different parasite strains.
This study highlights the importance of poor drainage which has two important consequences favouring uprooting.
This situation was unlikely to be repeated, and made a similar political atmosphere favouring frank discussion highly unlikely.
He focuses on congressional passivity, excessive party discipline, presidential decree powers, and corporatist arrangements favouring peak organisations at the expense of pluralist representation.
Because the complementary strands are physically retained in proximity, the chains do not diffuse apart, favouring reassociation.
Reproductive recovery is presumed to provide the selective pressure favouring evolution of a lethal host response.
The constraints produce this generalisation by cumulatively favouring higher-sonority stressed vowels over lower-sonority ones.
A research bias favouring certain helminth groups over others has been suspected before.
Thus, cattle could be favouring the presence of species which take advantage of these animals to disperse their seeds.
Many of the foodstuffs consumed were made by hand, favouring transmission from the index case to the cafeteria users.
Still, cohering with our tangled moral intuitions might not be sufficient justification for favouring disjunctivism.
The economic niche for medic pasture has been limited by (1) low farm wages favouring labour-intensive high-value crops and (2) price subsidies for wheat.
Priming does not change the repertoire; rather, it promotes alignment by favouring one particular model and its associated referring expressions.
Both were within the tradition of loyal opposition, favouring change within the existing system.
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