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They are favored as a form of art.

Others elevate the egg into a fancy art, like the heavily jewel-covered eggs that were favored by the Russians starting in the 19th century.

It is especially favored as a church decoration.

That's because he plans to ban tipping in favor of paying his servers an actual living wage.

Some people are still in favor of printed books because of the sense of touch they can provide.

What does Aaron do to return Pat's favor?

So the next time you consider eating fallen food, the odds are in your favor that you can eat it without getting sick.

Then again, the air of accountability that the camera generates can also work in contractors' favor.

As U.S.banks recovered with the help of the American government and the American taxpayer, president Obama held meetings with top bank executives, telling them it’s time to return the favor.

Science would favor Du Bois.

The ruling would be in Bowman's favor if the case were argued in a Hollywood movie.

Some propose storing the CO2 in coal mines or liquid storage in the ocean, Shell favors storing CO2 in deep geological structures such as saline(盐的) formations and exhausted oil and gas fields that exist throughout the world.

Consumers who favor imported goods and services.

Some parents who withdraw their children from the schools in favor of home schooling have an inadequate educational background and insufficient formal training to provide a satisfactory education for their children.

Andrew Hacker, Queens College political science professor, thinks that advanced algebra and other higher-level math should be cut from curricula in favor of courses with more routine usefulness, like statistics.

Just earlier this year, the European Parliament voted in favor of legislation that would stop grocery giants from unfair trading practices that result in overproduction, thus creating waste.

There will probably be months of legal confrontation, and it is not at all clear which side will prevail in court, nor in the battle for public opinion and legislative favor.

Religious associations began, for example, in the desire to secure the favor of overruling powers and to ward off evil influences; family life in the desire to gratify appetites and secure family perpetuity; systematic labor, for the most part, because of enslavement to others, etc.

But a number of anthropologists in the early 1900s also rejected the particularist theory of culture in favor of diffusionism.

The most loyal customers would still get the product they favor, the idea goes, and they’d feel like they were helping sustain the quality of something they believe in.

The court did suggest that accepting favors in return for opening doors is “distasteful” and “nasty.

Imagine that you favor increasing the minimum wage in our state, and I do not.

The most loyal customers would still get the product they favor, the idea goes, and they'd feel like they were helping sustain the quality of something they believe in.

Young people who are still getting started in life were more likely than older adults to prioritize personal fulfillment in their work, to believe they will advance their careers most by regularly changing jobs, to favor communities with more public servi