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1. The physics Ava spoke of never explained the connections of what should be random odds in strange ways that favor one person over another
2. resulting in visible manifestation of His power or favor in
3. manifestation of His favor working in your life, that can
4. was touched by the manifestation of God’s favor in
5. with you to the point where His favor is manifesting in
6. He brought up a diagnostic screen, Diam couldn't see them from his direction, and Bahkmar tried to be as attentive as Diam said, without preamble, "It has been brought to my attention that you are not in favor of the council's decision?"
7. Why do the spirits favor you with the best?"
8. why things are or are not manifesting in our favor
9. Yet you haven't granted her the favor even once
10. Kate had made it back to her cave, when Michael came in and asked her to do him a favor
11. Needless to say, word spread that these towns had the special favor of the Dragons because of their good deeds
12. She would be surprised at his audacity, but secretly look with favor on him
13. He didn’t favor that crack with a reply
14. abandoned in favor of more advanced procedures
15. vying for her favor; she has them eating out of her hand
16. ) An effort without favor
17. That is, when it is not done as a favor but as a win-win
18. in favor of the subject is amazing
19. I need a favor so I can get home
20. “So; are you still renting that needleboat to ferry me to Chardovia?” she asked, “and how much sex do I have to give you for that favor?”
21. The remaining members voted in favor of Jalan's motion, including a weak hand raise from Ningla
22. Like I said, I'm doing you a favor
23. “No,” Ava said, “But whoever is guilty was trying to win his favor
24. That hardly seemed a motive compared to currying favor with a founder of the Kassikan
25. “To gain favor in Kassikan politics
26. “Sorry to interrupt;” he began, “Harry I've a another favor to ask of you
27. None of them seemed to gain any favor out of it
28. Many on the committee had been entangled in various intrigues in the past, hoping to gain favor and win themselves a speakership or better quarters, so he shouldn’t ignore the possibility that someone or a friend of someone on the committee was involved in Tdeshi’s overdose
29. Only gZarvik had really seemed defensive, that was because he was known to have predicted favor for those who brought in a body for the ghost
30. Jack did not pray, however, because in his personal opinion and not necessarily anybody else’s, it was quite selfish to pray, to ask the powers that be that the rules of the universe be temporarily twisted in one’s own personal favor
31. “I’m in favor of both
32. She had merely asked Harry to 'consider' the project; 'as a favor to her on behalf of her father,' she had added casually
33. find favor and high esteem in the
34. “I favor a more mundane vocation, I'm afraid
35. At the last moment the targeted gentleman caught it in his mouth and returned the favor towards the other's face, who likewise caught it in his own mouth
36. West a favor and kept it up, right till you stepped out the door in that mini skirt
37. Desa would have just walked back but she remembered that Alan didn’t have anything warm with him, and tried to jog a little bit, but soon gave that up in favor of a loose amble
38. Do me a favor and end this thing so I don’t have to
39. Again fate intervened in my favor of for one of the few times and Joe came down and stayed with us for like two days
40. toward us with favor and power
41. One day, when the grand-vizir(chief counselor to the Sultan) was talking to his eldest daughter, Scheherazade said to him, “Father, I have a favor to ask of you
42. Grant me the favor of allowing her to sleep this night in the same room, as it is the last we shall be together
43. If only he would do Galimoto this final favor, Galimoto swears he will not ask for more
44. With that kind of nose, I’ll be doing you a favor to mash it flat
45. Imorbis had laid out many possibilities, some unfolded in their favor, others less so
46. And then, she could ask the favor of being allowed to meet this poet
47. Then again, this point was probably in Chloe’s favor
48. the verdict would still be two to one in favor of execution
49. Why would you say that? I’m hardly inclined to favor the accused
50. could see the crowd was turning overwhelmingly in favor of Theoton
1. By late Afternoonday of Kadezak the breeze had returned to it's normal languid self and the last week of spring favored them with the full heat of summer
2. He had included a brief note about this favored captain of his, and his highest praise
3. He knew he favored a woman’s body over her mind when he picked them for his team
4. He knew he favored those who favored him
5. She was delicate, reserved and mild, not the athletic beauty favored by most of the native girls, though she was a smidgeon taller than Desa
6. Did these favored Olympians mean her new master’s
7. It depended on redeeming her tainted life, so she might join them in the favored reaches of the
8. He favored a system where every free man had a voice
9. I wouldn’t want anyone saying my slave favored him in her translations
10. She’d always favored Kestides, her firstborn
11. He must be favored by the Muses, because his writing sang with their immortal voices
12. The coffee was the dark, syrupy coffee favored by the Puerto Ricans
13. I favored and later chose a plot of land that was about a hundred and fifty yards from the seashore
14. ” During sworn testimony taken in the case, Marine officials admitted they would allow speech that favored Islam, but not Nieto"s speech because they considered it “extremist, indecent, and offensive
15. favored them with a blunt stare
16. Nobody had been hurt yet, but how long could her luck hold? Did she have the right to risk these men’s lives? Even if their sacrifices might save Sespian? And if luck favored her, and the counterfeiting succeeded, could she actually bluff Hollowcrest and Larocka Myll into succumbing to her demands with these bills?
17. ‖ What law protects their Rights? Or laws conferring arbitrary advantages and special privileges to certain individuals or favored (―political‖) groups at the expense of others? I am not at all certain that this is what the founding fathers had in mind when this document was initially conceived
18. Many Republicans, especially Northeastern Republicans, generally favored New Deal programs, Welfare and Civil Rights reforms
19. It‘s nearly Machiavellian the manner in which this ―desirable‖ although not so favored group continues to be courted by the Republican Establishment
20. Not unlike Iraq, America had to deal with its own domestic factions (Tories) who favored conciliation with Brittan and were willing to provide aid and comfort to its majesty‘s armed forces for economic reasons
21. Individuals held in detention are Equal; that is to say, they are all (equally) imprisoned although some may enjoy certain privileges that others may not, but that is besides the point inasmuch as even the favored among them cannot properly be called Free
22. Clinton was/is a closet Marxist as some on the Hard Right would have us believe, although, as a child of the sixties, he may very well have favored a softened version consistent with ―third way‖ ideas
23. A sure sign of his lack of mild treatment on his plantation is that his most favored head slave, “old Hannah,” ran away during the Civil War before Emancipation even though she was quite elderly by then
24. Unions, most churches, some business, and the Black population all strongly favored independence for all subject peoples and did not want an American empire
25. (In fact, Kerry favored keeping both wars going
26. The law favored slave owners against abolitionists, forcing all northerners to return fugitive slaves, no matter what the state laws were or the personal beliefs of abolitionists
27. Doctors and nurses, as professions trained to aid the sick, also favored it though most preferred Medicare for all
28. But though he favored removal and failed to stop one tribe's removal, what this episode shows is important
29. Lewis Cass also favored taking Texas, but wanted popular sovereignty for all new territories, that each state's population could choose to be a free state or a slave state
30. In the 1940s, most Puerto Ricans still favored independence
31. La Hacienda became a favored hideaway where she and her most privileged friends would engage in games of pleasure that could last an entire uninterrupted day or two
32. Romney also favored arming “moderate” Syrian rebels
33. It was helping them organize on a national level, to form a united front against policies long practiced by wealthy landowners and government, which favored the rich and forced the poor from the land
34. He had driven the coastal highway many times; it seemed that Sixaola, on the border with Panama, was a favored home in exile for many Nicaraguans
35. He might be classified as a defector, someone who favored Communism
36. Though transforming at will to any shape imaginable was certainly an ability that shunted necessities and favored whim and fancy above all
37. He then headed back toward their newly favored foraging grounds, as a sign that what had been decided would not be happening before the next sleep
38. From first son, inheritor, receiver of the double portion, doer of the most important family work, to rejected! Abel on the other hand was suddenly elevated to most favored person status
39. Fortunately, as well as innocently, as Man had followed in pursuit of his favored quarry, he began to discern the patterns of their existence
40. ” If a catastrophic runoff from the northern ice cap deglaciation had favored a western direction, it could have caused the Mediterranean to rise rapidly enough to breach the Bosporus in the north through some earthquake-caused crack in the narrow, eighteen-mile isthmus of hills that separated the Sea of Marmara and the Dardanelles from the lake-land (Black Sea) area
41. But it had been such a quick one, and the immediate look away told her that he realized that she had not favored this kind of response, and she thought, It wasn’t a stare
42. “The PAC and other contributions by special interest groups likely to be favored after an election are largely responsible for the growth in campaign spending
43. Into this boiling cauldron of particularism jumped Mohammed and his followers, promising the Jews the rebuilding of their Temple and possibly the Gnostics that their doctrine would be the favored one under their rule
44. Dallas is favored by five
45. He documents how the CMM reported early the close tallies that favored Gore, and held back reporting the results that favored Bush
46. This then led to a Supreme Court decision, which favored the real winner
47. President Jefferson and his Republicans were nervous about the strong central power favored by the Centrists, even though that power was necessary for our brand-new nation
48. That’s the reason Ardara favored
49. “lebensraum” or living space for his favored Aryans
50. fond enough of me to keep me around, but she always favored you
1. He admitted it when I pointed it out, but he was favoring the credibility of promoted individuals on that list over that of people out beyond Chardovia
2. He looked up again, favoring me with his manly look, “You gotta call a number for that
3. This plan was adopted as a compromise between political factions favoring the Popular Vote (states with larger populations) and others preferring a proportionate voice in government or (states with smaller populations)
4. The rising costs associated with our society‘s War on Drugs, for example, have succored qualifying arguments favoring its
5. The War Hawks, gung ho hyper nationalist Congressmen favoring war against both Britain and Spain and invasions of Canada and Florida
6. Ideological Communists in China went into decline, replaced by more pragmatic ones favoring trade with the west
7. Obama's winning the Democratic primary in 2008 was largely due to antiwar activists favoring him over Hillary Clinton
8. It was very much stop and start, with some presidents favoring, others opposed for both pragmatic reasons and genuine anti racism
9. Cass later resigned from Buchanan's administration because of his objection to Buchanan favoring Confederates
10. Wade was even more of a Radical, favoring not just equal rights for Blacks but the vote for women and recognition of unions
11. those 191 countries are a motley crew favoring big government and socialism
12. There then followed rule by a series of second-rate administrators, some of whom, like Florus, were not well-disposed to Jews, favoring the Greek inhabitants of Eretz Israel
13. Milishak opposed her, favoring a male cousin with militia of his own, and they were backed by the other nobles of the realm
14. The architect was very precise in his measurements, favoring
15. Times, he couldn´t fight the huge tide of public opinion favoring the quick timeline for the vote
16. I think Japan’s on the cusp of that change with public opinion now favoring a nuclear deterrence capability
17. She chaired the Commission on Immigration Reform for a short time, favoring penalties on employers who hired illegal aliens
18. did in fact commit the cardinal sin of favoring one son more than the
19. His father was favoring him and showed him more love after all
20. The truth of the matter is that much of this could have been avoided if there were an equitable system of taxation – what we have today is much too complicated, favoring the rich with their high priced lawyer thieves
21. not to seek his plush robe in the master bath, favoring instead the
22. government favoring the corporate Nation and socialist State,
23. fast now, and it seems like his mount is favoring the left foreleg
24. studying growth and sales potential, and then favoring those corporations who were
25. She watched as he ate the food, favoring the mashed
26. They had been trained that should artificial gravity ever give out and come back on, they should avoid landing on their feet, favoring a martial arts tumble
27. Using a human mind set, the motivation for preserving particular cultures, and humans in general, would have to transcend merely favoring those communities
28. “And how is she? How is Jade now?” Hamilton stood, favoring his right leg
29. The Lion has the right to eat Christians while Nero burst into a hysterical laugh is the same symbol as the sword, a symbol that will stand for death and resurrection, favoring the right justice of the killed
30. ” favoring her bad knee, Uness lamely came to stand next to Ear at the multiply secured door
31. no doubt why Bev was favoring her leg a little
32. Favoring isolation exercises too much brings with it the drawback of ignoring a number of small
33. They were, at least what she could gather from his end, not favoring his deployment choice
34. The ratio of dead to living in Los Angeles was rapidly favoring the dead
35. "Bang, if he wants to bid and he gives me a fair and competitive proposal, I don't have any intentions on favoring or discriminating against him
36. We pulled up outside his mother’s practice and he helped me from the car, favoring me with a warm smile as he did
37. He hunched over, favoring his left side in order to escape the pain of the blistering flesh rubbing against his course jeans
38. Out of the bucket, Barnes straightened his feathers, favoring his tail, which had been partially smashed by the bucket
39. By favoring the students, you are actually
40. Upright, not favoring the side where he’d been shot
41. They may implement the results more quickly, favoring expedience over originality, file documents, control, check, review, and criticize (but not deeply and logically oppose!), overcome bureaucratic obstacles, produce, arrange, build, reconstruct
42. clothing and accessories, dressing in layers and favoring water-
43. favoring ideas in the same family
44. 66:23, 24)…Instead of favoring eternal torment, it boldly refutes it, and leaves our opponents standing off to themselves, gazing through their theological glasses at the most inimical disproof of their belief
45. This last attempt ultimately misfiring, the two strangers exchanged a few words in their incomprehensible language and withdrew, not even favoring us with one of those encouraging gestures that are used in every country in the world
46. Without this type of safeguard, those representatives might be tempted to craft legislation favoring their individual states
47. The whole landscape, which, seen by a favoring light, and in a genial temperature, had been found so lovely, appeared now like some pictured allegory of life, in which objects were arrayed in their harshest but truest colors, and without the relief of any shadowing
48. No favoring in this shop
49. It had seemed for months as if Ulbrickson had been quietly favoring the younger boys, but it had been subtle
50. The analyst must seek to guard himself against this danger as best he can: in part, by dealing with those situations preferably which are not subject to sudden change; in part, by favoring securities in which the popular interest is keen enough to promise a fairly swift response to value elements which he is the first to recognize; in part, by tempering his activities to the general financial situation—laying more emphasis on the discovery of undervalued securities when business and market conditions are on a fairly even keel, and proceeding with greater caution in times of abnormal stress and uncertainty
1. She owes me for a couple large favors, the details of which I would also prefer to keep private
2. "Tdeshi was never a friend," Tahlmute said, "the prior soul in her body, she was wheedling me for favors, she wanted a back door into the Kassikan
3. "I enjoyed the work, and I still enjoy doing sexual favors, but I think the reason I give them is more important
4. We don't know if she was doing it for favors or money, but either way, she's out of here and in lots of trouble
5. “I can take you to darkmeal and offer you accommodations and not expect sexual favors in return,” he said
6. “I didn’t push anything on her, I just did her favors
7. To get her cooperation he really didn't have much choice but to provide sexual favors
8. think it’s what she favors in a man
9. Chase was not at all certain that she liked this - she didn’t want her boy all worn out by the time he came to her for favors
10. “I always knew there’d be favors expected later
11. That is to say, authority is often conferred as a quid pro quo in exchange for (public) favors
12. Question: Should public servants be permitted to own stock in companies that routinely seek political favors within their immediate sphere of influence?
13. ―rough housing‖ supposedly favors bigger, stronger, more athletic types at the expense (chagrin) of other children who, lacking the necessary corporeal endowments or, as they relate to musical chairs, quick feet and agility, (often) find themselves unable to compete at a higher level
14. The favors of the Lord are not exhausted,
15. Additional benefits came whenever sensitive information was passed along or other special favors rendered
16. “Unfortunately, the Obama EPA favors bureaucracy and heavy-handed intervention more than jobs and
17. Believe, this simple change will eliminate 80% of the serious economic and social problems, besides the illicit acts that involve the possession of the money, purchase of favors of somebody else through the corruption, bribery, piracy of products or contrabands
18. role when assisting beneficiary person that lives in Brazil, but it is in transit in Haiti, without being exchange of favors or help
19. Gun control favors criminals who would have the guns while law abiders wouldn’t
20. My wife favors Venice and I am inclined to agree with her, having seen photographs of the city
21. “Captain, as far as I know they have only fought wars on planetary surfaces before this, so the battlefield strongly favors us,” I said
22. “You said there were two favors
23. I was definitely not in the mood to do this guy any favors in lieu of all he had done to me
24. It was to get the thing passed before anyone knew about the takeovers of companies, the favors to unions, and the special interest pork hidden in it
25. Relationships would be in the open and exchanges of money or favors would be against the law
26. So they egged local relatives to meet them as much as possible; of course, in exchange of favors of all types including finding jobs for them abroad
27. ―Unfortunately, the Obama EPA favors bureaucracy and heavy-handed intervention more than jobs and growth
28. “I don’t hate my brother, but I despise how my father favors him
29. lucrative favors in spending bills
30. We’re back where we started—with just your word against his, there’s only one possible verdict and that favors rank
31. Their only friends were those who knew them for money or favors
32. He was in a position to choose any number of different directions—and he knew that fortune favors the prepared
33. approve and reciprocate the favors
34. Relgemit on the other hand favors the term; The Mated Brigade
35. “One faction favors the status quo, and is represented here by Amirgath and Gvetwa
36. the other favors I need
37. You do see that your father favors Lope
38. * Google favors websites that have many links located on different IP Addresses
39. Too many favors were being done, and without a by-your-leave to her
40. But tableware, light bulbs and other supplies, and even his labor around the house and yard—these things she must reciprocate either by favors of her own or reductions in his rent
41. And certainly none of them owed him any favors
42. now; it won’t do you any favors
43. A doctor came out of the back and approached the Favors
44. There were no charges that looked related to Alana Favors, but the high bond amounts implied that the arresting officers were investigating them for further charges
45. There was nothing in the paper about Alana Favors
46. A number of the ladies from the temple were more than happy to supplement their income with special favors
47. • Regular candles are nice too for cheap wedding favors
48. Ask any mother if she favors one child above another and you will find this to be true
49. So I called in some favors and got Big Whig to send over a crew to film a commercial for the joint, just as I had promised
50. After the election, they need to pay back the donors by doing them favors