The university insists this will be only one factor and that it has not adopted a 'blanket' policy favouring one group of applicants.

The online marketplace has faced criticism that its refund policy favours buyers - and that initially seemed to be the case here.

Worse, they spend some of those funds on lobbying government for policies favoured by the very civil servants who doled out the cash to them.

Nor can one doubt that monetary policy favours 'them that's got'.

Builders plan to construct the 'land-hungry' properties, despite housing policy favouring highdensity development.

Who among the congregation knew that the flowers were once thought to gain favour with the spirit of the departed?

The sight of our prime minister and future king prostrating themselves before the world's media to gain favour made me feel ill.

Sometimes even the players can say positive things to try to gain favour - they think you won't want to upset them.

Supermarkets have a bewildering choice with new mixed flavours such as orange & lime and orange & watermelon gaining favour.

This work was slow to gain favour with musicians, due to its harmonic complexity and intricate form.

The government favours private pensions, creates tax loopholes and subsidises farming and the opera.

Certainly it seems like the government favours a quick and convenient answer over any long-term strategy for the benefit of mankind.

His colleagues were divided about his acceptance of a knighthoood in 1984, purists suggesting that journalists should remain independent of such government favours.

It has denied that it was seeking to win government favours.

The state government favours leasing out the racecourse for another 30 years.

I did myself a huge favour and headed home soon afterwards.

In doing so the court has done the prime minister a huge favour.

Two weeks before the operation, he drew me aside and said he had a huge favour to ask.

By ditching the car you no longer need to sit in queues of traffic, and you will be doing the environment a huge favour.

But going old school and taking up a team sport could actually do us, and our bodies, a huge favour.

Many equity investors favour income funds - there are more than 80 - because they produce dividends each year, even if the markets suffer.

But if consumers delay purchases while investors favour paper money over inflation-protected asssets, it implies that, whatever they may say about fearing inflation, their behaviour reveals the opposite concern.

He expects the category to continue to outperform other equities as investors favour their high quality.

Many of the more successful buy-tolet investors favour smallish two- or three-bedroom houses because they provide the best of both worlds.

He continues to suggest that investors favour cyclical stocks that are sensitive to increased capital spending.

In this type of scam, fraudsters recruit an innocent party, perhaps under the pretence of a job offer or personal favour, to launder money.

The fancy-wrapping of 'guarantor' agreements moves things elegantly further away from such an embarrassing personal favour.

He called in a personal favour.

My father would never have granted such personal favours, but they didn't believe me.

The power of these ministers depended entirely on the personal favour of the monarch.

The ideal was to obtain social equality without special favour or a sense of différence.

So why did she refuse this special favour?

Others indicated for special favour included deep goldmines.

But officials insisted that there could be no special favours for the interpreters.

In return, they have been contemptuously brushed aside, as though they were trouble-makers demanding special favours.