Unfavourable

Saying something unfavourable is “caused” by one’s genes is a great way to excuse bad impulse control, and my inner Calvinist wants to tear her hair out in frustration. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He had some tricky decisions to make throughout the series, and he was under pressure from a number of quarters, Flower said, referring to unfavourable pre-series media scrutiny. ❋ Unknown (2011)

She reached the second item of the so-called unfavourable news; and her face flushed as she read how the doctor had learnt ‘that there was something in your path worse than narrow means, and that something is a woman.’ ❋ Unknown (2006)

Spies and informers were employed -- and every murmur, and every expression unfavourable to the ruling powers was followed with the sentence of death and its immediate execution. ❋ John Foxe (N/A)

At length a treaty, in terms unfavourable to the Moslems, but in fact a victory won by ❋ Moulavi Ger��gh Ali (N/A)

Lastly, it is alleged that the presiding judge summed up in terms unfavourable to the Repealers. ❋ Various (N/A)

This condition would show that the king had treated the archbishopric as a forfeited fief, and that its lands had been alienated on terms unfavourable to the Church. ❋ George Burton Adams (1888)

She reached the second item of the so-called unfavourable news; and her face flushed as she read how the doctor had learnt 'that there was something in your path worse than narrow means, and that something is a woman.' ❋ Thomas Hardy (1884)

The conditions which have been described as unfavourable to intellectual production are not necessarily permanent, and the time will probably come when the Europeans of South ❋ James Bryce Bryce (1880)

Stagflation can occur because of several factors such as unfavourable supply shock such as an increase in the price of oil in an oil importing country (as it is today), which tends to raise prices while slowing the economy by making production less profitable. ❋ Unknown (2008)

'traitorous to the King,' that is to say unfavourable to the candidature of James. ❋ Edmund Gosse (1888)

The firm also forecasted an "unfavourable" combined cocoa sales ratio for the months ahead. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Jerry Brown, fill the airwaves with a multitude of each other's sins, the most impressive gains in one recent Field Poll came in the "unfavourable" category - ❋ Mitch Potter (2010)

Figures for the habitats and species awarded special protection under the EU habitats directive reveal that across 40 countries of Europe and the former Soviet Union, 50-85\% of habitats and 40-70\% of species were in an "unfavourable" condition, and many more could not be assessed because of a lack of information. ❋ Unknown (2009)

New figures for the UK also show that even the most important and rare plants and animals are suffering: eight out of 10 habitats and half of species given the highest level of European protection are in an "unfavourable" condition. ❋ Unknown (2009)

His "unfavourable" rating surged to 57 percent from eight percent. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The operations at sea were being carried out in "unfavourable" weather, the spokesmen said. ❋ Unknown (2009)