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How to use curry favor in a sentence

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Sentence Examples
However, it is irresponsible for them to show such an indiscreet attitude to curry favor with voters.
She hates her outcast status, but has too much respect for herself to compromise or curry favor.
The British were accused of trying to curry favor with Tripoli for oil and arms deals.
Gilad Sharon said the resignation was designed to curry favor with hardliners.
Several banks seem to have leaned heavily on their balance sheets to curry favor with Facebook.
A client might decide to hire a friend, want to curry favor or return past help.
But behind them are ISIS fighters and sympathizers and locals eager to curry favor by selling out their neighbors.
To that end, and perhaps to curry favor with sitting leaders, Kadyrov has come down harshly against the Arab Spring.
My work is not based only on relationships or trying to curry favor.
Any Tribunal Member seeking to curry favor of a Roster member appearing before him or her is thus anticipating a contingency so remote that any apprehension of bias attendant to it is mere speculation.
They considered that position as a legacy of the Taya regime's attempts to curry favor with the West.
But this wasn't some sort of Sister Souljah moment, where Romney called out his fellow conservatives in order to curry favor with the center.
If nationalists believe that they will not curry favor with Ukrainians by engaging in Jew-baiting, then that is a welcome development.
The framers worried that a president elected by Congress would so curry favor with the electing institution that he would be a mere puppet of the legislature rather than an independent voice.
Many are flocking to Mr. Ma, hoping to curry favor.
Any foreign government or foreign investor trying to curry favor with the current Bush Administration is sure to throw business to the Carlyle Group.
Examples from Classical Literature
The wolf does not curry favor with the sheep-dog when it hungers for a lamb.
She was like a dog which after a whipping tries to curry favor with its master.
You estrange my own child from me to curry favor with the future king.
It was necessary for Lubinka to curry favor with the chief of police.
I came to the academy to learn, and not to curry favor with him.
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