Beneath the headlines was the story of a boy born in a desperately unfavoured district of Nottingham, whose mother died when he was three, who spent his own childhood helping to bring up his three younger siblings, who never learnt to read or write properly, and whose father was jailed three years ago for selling heroin and crack. ❋ Unknown (2011)
A voter should be able to use his SINGLE vote to vote either FOR or AGAINST his favoured or unfavoured candidate. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Mr. Dennel was a man as unfavoured by nature as he was uncultivated by art. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Pic: Facsimile of first edition of The Origin, held open by one of the unfavoured races in the struggle for life, the ammonite Dactyloceras sp. ❋ Unknown (2007)
My understanding is that ‘more slack’ meant that you would be much quicker to ban unfavoured posters, not that you would hold them to a different and impossible standard of debate. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Thanks to the ‘dash for gas’ the former is running out and the latter is currently uneconomic to mine and politically unfavoured. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Others, on the contrary, are disposed to form unfavourable opinions of her mind, and disposition, if it be but to excuse themselves for their instinctive dislike of one so unfavoured by nature; and visa versa with her whose angel form conceals a vicious heart, or sheds a false, deceitful charm over defects and foibles that would not be tolerated in another. ❋ Unknown (2002)
These individuals succesfully integrate in society, not by all means in unfavoured positions (on the contrary, as we will see later). ❋ Dorin T. Moisa (N/A)
If he would risk his fortune on the spinning of a coin, being aware of the prevalence of his good-luck, archæology will tell him that the best luck will change; or if, when in sore straits, he asks whether ever a man was so unlucky, archæology will answer him that many millions of men have been more unfavoured than he. ❋ Arthur E. P. B. Weigall (N/A)
He is a suitor -- an unfavoured suitor -- for the hand of Yvonne, that seemingly still hopes. ❋ Rafael Sabatini (1912)
In him had been born the makings of a domestic tyrant who, even had he been favoured by fortune, would have wreaked his humours upon the defenceless things made his property by ties of blood and marriage, and who, being unfavoured, would do worse. ❋ Unknown (1907)
This you modestly desired me not to think of; but I told you what I now repeat, that unfavoured as I have lived for a long life, unnoticed professionally by any party of men, and though unknown at court, I am rich enough to spare to virtue (what others waste in vice) the above sum, and still reserve an annual income greater than I spend. ❋ Morley, John (1907)
The old man was beginning to wax indignant over his son's unfavoured suit when a voice, rich and strong, called to him across the loose stone wall that divided the road from the fields. ❋ Various (1899)
The first of these (omitting a work on "Transubstantiation" which I planned at the age of thirteen but did not carry far) was a _History of the English Scholastics_, which I thought of some ten years later, which was not unfavoured by good authority, and which I should certainly have attempted, if other people at Oxford in my time had not been so much cleverer than myself that I could not get a fellowship. ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)
Perhaps he counted on the Duke's love for his wife and intended simply to enrage his brother against a presuming but unfavoured lover. ❋ Unknown (1886)
The permanently lighted hearth of a dear home, as in that forsaken unfavoured old white house of the wooded ❋ George Meredith (1868)
The permanently lighted hearth of a dear home, as in that forsaken unfavoured old white house of the wooded Austrian crags, it had not. ❋ George Meredith (1868)
[Do not] unfavourably [compare] through a [trellis]. ❋ Hercolena Oliver (2009)
