The balance of probability still favours equities outperforming bonds in the medium term. |
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Further, the overwhelming body of international jurisprudence favours the application of a subjective test. |
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He favours plain white shirts, in line with his what-you-see-is-what-you-get kind of image. |
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A few corporations got to buy a few favours from the government, but the schemes had largely collapsed by the time they were killed off. |
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Furthermore, interpersonal relationships in Asia Pacific are based on reciprocity and return of favours. |
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It favours a cool, climate but ripens earlier than other reds such as Cabernet. |
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Another task is the keeping of a record of people who wrote in for favours and of favours received. |
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He then concluded that the balance of convenience favours granting the injunctive relief. |
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Do people ever offer the repo man sexual favours in exchange for him turning around and pretending he never saw them? |
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The union favours a one-off extra charge over an increase in fares because of the costs of resetting and resealing meters. |
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She favours the Lib Dem idea of replacing council tax with a local income tax, which would be fairer. |
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If he was anything like a typical male wearer, he won't have done it any favours. |
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He favours challenging rhyme schemes and difficult forms, such as the sestina and terza rima. |
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In an age of cinema that favours familiarity, remake and rehash, this director remains one of the few remaining apostles of the pioneer spirit. |
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Low borrowing rates and the absence of currency risks favours Europe at the minute. |
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He favours a central target man, two wide players, and an offensive midfielder who can play in the hole. |
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The primary carer tends frequently to be the mother and therefore the law favours the mother. |
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And you know, in there with the queasy grin fuel and crosseyed party favours are some special, secret moments of touching tenderness. |
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He favours New Zealand Friesians because, in his opinion, the breed is robust, holds its condition and, above all, gets back in calf easily. |
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I don't suppose Roy Keane favours his current coiffeur on the grounds that number one shaven heads are still de rigueur at his local barbers. |
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There are also many proprietary liquids and pastes that have a disagreeable taste and can be brushed onto surfaces that the horse favours. |
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Her steadfast delivery favours conviction over decoration and never overstates the point. |
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What if you were to be swayed by the promise of, say, sexual favours or a Busted album, or summat? |
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The fact that they were very mild-mannered, and not cannibalistic, favours the opinion that they were kin to the Seminoles of Florida. |
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Every day I receive somewhere between five and fifteen begging letters from people asking me to do them favours. |
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He favours an approach that would toughen regulations on internet service providers, which are already obliged to filter out offensive material. |
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The fact that practically all dinosaur trackways are straight strongly favours animals desperately trying to escape some catastrophe. |
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Squire may experiment with Hendrix and Marr but his heart favours trippy, psychedelic guitars. |
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After 1247, however, Henry began showering favours upon his half-brothers, the sons of his mother, Isabella of Angouleme. |
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By showering favours on Elizabeth's relatives, Edward began to build up a faction to counter Warwick. |
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He will get no favours from Robinson, who plans to use the occasion as a tune-up for a shot at the domestic bantam belt early next year. |
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But being miserable and moping around the house isn't doing me any favours either, so I finally decided to hunt out an appropriate activity. |
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The allegation is that she was asked for sexual favours in part in return for chocolate, sunglasses and mosquito coils. |
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Life assurers did us no favours by introducing with-profit, unitised with-profit and low-cost endowments. |
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He favours an Aboriginal ceremony, with a flaming boomerang curving majestically into the waiting cauldron as the highlight. |
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Indeed, it is their unthankfulness for genuine favours that renders them so guilty. |
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There is, of course, a difference between doing favours for people you know and sheer, unvarnished corruption. |
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She apparently favours plain food, such as lamb cutlets or roast beef, with bread-and-butter pudding or ice-cream to follow. |
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But it's not a cheery film, and not one that does you any favours if you're feeling a bit bummed. |
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The nature of his influence derives from his own palate, which favours fruity, highly coloured and heavily oaked wines. |
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Oh well, they're both just the prime minister's hacks, recipients of his favours, obeyers of his orders. |
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This lends an air of deliberate camp to a play that needs no such favours, and which would amuse with more subtlety in their absence. |
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They may split the vote in a way that favours someone such as Maureen Gilroy who takes a hard line against issues of social equity. |
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The stockade performed so many favours for the town and outlying farms that it was quite okay by the townsfolk. |
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Once a team puts up a brave show and outsmarts tough opponents, luck favours them in the next assignment. |
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We bore in mind their own individual requirements but didn't do special favours for any of them. |
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Large bureaucracies seem to inherently foster a culture that favours circumlocution, jargon and euphemism. |
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The point is that the paymasters intend to reward bloggers who configure web applications in a way that favours the commercial client. |
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An ill-fitting suit in the wrong colour for you will do no favours even if it is the most expensive in the store. |
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But if fortune favours the brave, the racecourse and its manager deserve good luck, better weather and a successful festival. |
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One of the smartest pieces of advice offered by the author of The Prince was that fortune favours the brave. |
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But fortune favours the brave and Wanderers have been rewarded for their bold buying policy. |
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The homeopathic community has done itself no ideological favours by splitting roughly along the scientific and phenomenological fault lines. |
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And the taxation system favours big business while coming down on the small businessman. |
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His policy was to buy support by granting favours and wide-ranging concessions. |
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The priest borrows the sum from the merchant and hands it to the wife, and the wife grants him her favours. |
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To round on his employers like he did will do him no favours and, let's face it, he has been paid handsomely for his efforts. |
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I have been slapping on my make-up in the same way for close to 20 years and it does me no favours. |
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Unfortunately, the occasional glimpses of that free spirit which leaked out into the tabloid press over the years did her no favours. |
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It has been suggested before that his modest nature does him no favours in an environment in which more charismatic characters are coveted. |
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What this means is that if someone was very good to him and did him some favours, he would be indebted to them for life. |
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It favours those who have never made a mistake, or never dared to challenge their indoctrinators. |
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There's no chance of them doing me any favours, so I have every intention of returning the compliment if I get the chance. |
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Guests will be treated to a buffet, complimentary champagne and party favours. |
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However, this, their debut offering, favours the accomplished philosophy of Kirkwood's plectrum. |
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The chairman is in an invidious position but he did McLeish no favours last week. |
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More displays like last night's will court him no favours in Detroit or elsewhere. |
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I called in a few favours, got some colleagues to clear some of my paperwork and to cover for me, and left the office. |
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Elaborate dishes are not their style, certainly not in the kitchen where their approach favours speedy fry-ups and fast salads. |
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Most preservationists are focused on traditional buildings, and popular sentiment favours familiar monuments and main streets, rarely the modern. |
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You are well co-ordinated just when providence favours your chances of progressing in your chosen endeavour. |
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A woman who wears big pants with a reinforced gusset is not the same as one who favours jewelled thongs. |
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I was talking about a single factor that favours one side and correspondingly disfavours the other. |
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Codes must shake up an entrenched engineering corps that still favours technology over cost effectiveness. |
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The usual five-hour match period around midday should do the field few favours unless conditions are dull and overcast. |
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The co-ordinator will link the helpers with those in need of small favours such as taking their children to school or walking their dog. |
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Even the way she favours her own girls rings completely true, as does the way she has raised them to be competitively accomplished. |
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Umno continues to benefit from a gerrymander that favours rural Malay seats on peninsular Malaya as well as Sabah and Sarawak in northern Borneo. |
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I cannot see this doing race relations any favours in an area where there have already been problems. |
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The colour range favours warm and tropical colours, with the addition of blue and sea green. |
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It is good for men to respect and admire them, without expecting favours or punishments from them. |
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Neither has Lane done himself any favours by dispensing with a chronological narrative in favour of themed chapters with abstract titles such as Complicity and Betrayal. |
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Insert the snapper, party favours and confetti or decorative shred into the roll. Make sure the ends of the snapper extend beyond the end of the cracker. |
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Racialized discourse is a set of social practices that favours the ingroup and denigrates the out-group, categorizing, evaluating and differentiating between groups. |
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But his favours to three thousand were concentered in one body. |
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If you've got prime ministers trading in the appointments of regulatory umpires in return for political favours, then you are in a banana republic. |
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This will work in some customers' favours but others will need to be additionally vigilant to ensure they do not get caught up by higher fees which push them deep into debt. |
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The speed of travel favours intercontinental spread of disease. |
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They would not compromise their belief that fortune favours the brave. |
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Her mother's fits of anger and the threats and beatings dealt to the girl resolve themselves in a grudging acceptance of the financial favours handed out by the lover. |
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Likewise, she had had to greet many young and eligible bachelors, all of whom did their best to impress her and win her over, asking for dances and favours from the princess. |
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On no account is he an aloof, lofty person, but instead he eats and drinks with the Minjung, sometimes asking favours from them or vice versa, granting their requests. |
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It didn't really do them any favours either, with lengthy gaps between songs as the band cluelessly tried to work out which drum sequence came next. |
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They have become institutions measuring performativity in a very quantitative sense that favours the style of work of certain academics over others. |
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Tight new spending limits are set to be imposed on Britain's political parties to stop them going cap in hand to donors angling for peerages, knighthoods and other favours. |
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If these plans reach the statute book they will allow a referendum to be held in the English regions to determine whether public opinion favours regional government. |
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The wrybill's close cousin, the banded dotterel, favours the sides of rivers, lakes, open land with sparse vegetation and coastal lagoons and beaches. |
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It is partly because of old lags enjoying favours from prison officers that the murderer is at large, four other men having been wrongly convicted. |
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He was also hard-headed enough to realise that being on the stock market did the club no favours, so he delisted it, putting himself out of a job. |
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He has surprised many by defying the adage that you can't teach an old dog new tricks by adopting a more attacking approach than he normally favours for his teams. |
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They are a very docile animal which in itself favours them to herd owners. |
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What other mammal continues to indulge in sexual activity long after it can successfully compete with younger, fitter males for the favours of the harem? |
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The results show that early fertilization leads to the formation of apomictic embryos while fertilization at anthesis favours the formation of sexually derived embryos. |
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He could simply have said he favours public ownership, full stop, period. |
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He is unencumbered by owing favours to one master or another in London, and he will measure his success by standards set in Scotland, not Westminster. |
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In lieu of political support to a regime, whether military or quasi-democratic, feudalists exact favours through ministerial positions, loans and property allocations. |
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Not the global free market, but a rigged version, which favours the already rich and powerful, and is policed by their institutions, on their terms. |
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Other Amazing Race contestants are tetchy that the couple are there, as the pair find it easier to get favours from strangers because they get recognised. |
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The board, which previously was under the control of the Ministry of Economic Reforms, has functioned as a slush fund for dispensing political favours. |
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The seedings, and the smart money, favours an all-Williams final. |
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The author favours short, spare sentences and a terse descriptive style. |
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The common buzzard breeds in woodlands, usually on the fringes, but favours hunting over open land. |
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Jiangsu cuisine favours cooking techniques such as braising and stewing, while Sichuan cuisine employs baking. |
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The climate, geography, and environment of Finland favours bog and peat bog formation. |
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Skier Carrie Sheinberg said a group of German bobsledders once offered her their gold medals in exchange for sexual favours. |
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He also viewed Bottom as a lucky man on whom Fortune showered favours beyond measure. |
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The Anthropic Principle states that the universe seems to be arranged in a way that favours the appearance and survival of life. |
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On social issues like LGBT rights and education policy it favours traditional values. |
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Farida Rashid said MFN did not mean granting undue favours to other country, rather it bar a nation from discriminating against the others. |
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Lugging four whacking great harps hither and thither can't be doing her invertebral discs too many favours. |
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When such mutations result in a higher fitness, natural selection favours these phenotypes and the novel trait spreads in the population. |
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Arya Samaj favours Vedic chants and Havan, Brahmo Samaj go for simple prayers. |
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This association favours the hatterias which feed on the numerous insects attracted by the birds' excrement. |
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As mentioned previously, Isabella had little care for personal bribes or favours. |
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He favours calling things by their true names and constantly argues about what is wrong and what is right. |
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Instead, he favours carbon taxes to make full use of the efficiency of the market. |
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Coppice management favours a range of wildlife, often of species adapted to open woodland. |
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The film starred Ken Marshall as Colwyn, the Hero who favours a sword as his weapon, and Lysette Anthony as Lyssa, The Princess. |
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I am unwont to press my favours, or to deal with priests who require entreaty, when gifts are held out to them. |
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The king was not more forward to bestow favours on them as they free to deal affronts to others their superiors. |
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Leinster would circle the wagons, Connacht would repay favours for McDonagh and McCague would be left sweating it out. |
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Maintenon had been governess to the children in the late 1670s before acceding to the king's favours. |
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Maintenance of ATP favours apoptosis over necrosis triggered by benzamide riboside. |
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Anyway, her head was still killing her and the sound of Frost's tirade wasn't doing it any favours. |
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Your mother's a very smart woman. She loves nice clothes. Has she seen this jumper? Has she? You're not doing yourself any favours. |
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But true to form the 19-year-old failed to do himself any redemptive favours following his slew of bratty behaviour during his embattled Believe gigs. |
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He might dispense favours and disfavours according to his own election. |
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Nonetheless, many of the functions of government centred on Henry himself and he was often surrounded by petitioners requesting decisions or favours. |
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The regularity of the latter favours use as a source for masonry, either as a primary building material or as a facing stone, over other construction. |
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When a customer is familiar with a brand, or favours it incomparably to its competitors, this is when a corporation has reached a high level of brand equity. |
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He concluded his term, however, when a local news media uncovered evidence of him receiving favours and hospitality from business tycoons on various occasions. |
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He favours bringing the railways back into public ownership. |
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Bunten wrote in her Life of Alice Barnham that, upon their descent into debt, she went on trips to ask for financial favours and assistance from their circle of friends. |
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Unionism in Ireland is a political ideology that favours the continuation of some form of political union between the islands of Ireland and Great Britain. |
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A desert is not the kind of habitat that favours the presence of amphibians, with their requirement for water to keep their skins moist and for the development of their young. |
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The temperate oceanic climate favours the naturalisation of southern and exotic plants such as palm trees, brought back by many Cherbourg sailors and explorers. |
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It maybe, that the higher pH of cat and dog saliva favours the growth of porphyromonads either directly or indirectly by slowing the growth of competing species. |
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This condition favours the production of adiponectin in relation to leptin which also allows adiponectin to block the prohypertrophic effect of leptin. |
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But you get the impression it's aimed more at the vet who takes the occasional trip into town rather than the city slicker who favours a flashy Chelsea tractor. |
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Advocates of biocentrism maintain that social consciousness in Canada now favours redressing historical and current wrongs against Aboriginal peoples. |
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Our leader Kevin also favours a belching baritone saxophone lustiness. |
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It loves her va-va-voom curves, too, so it pains Dressed in the Dark to mention, this time at least, that fulsome figure-eight is doing her no favours whatsoever. |
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This involves a new moral and ethical quality that does not depend on the old social value of filial piety, which favours feudalistic institutions and family structure. |
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Millie and The Prof have been undergoing marriage guidance, although some believe it does him few favours when he describes the sessions as How To Train Your Dragon. |
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Current thinking favours a skin barrier defect as the most significant predisposing factor, where mutations in the filaggrin gene feature strongly. |
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