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6 sentences with 'favoured'

Example sentences and phrases with the word favoured and other words derived from it.


• « Louis XVI was executed by guillotine, the newly invented "humane" method of execution favoured by the revolutionary government, and his head exposed to the crowd. »
• « The Habsburgs were also favoured by the leadership of the electors because their kingdoms bordered the growing Ottoman Turkish empire, and thus played a vital role in keeping the Turks in check. »
• « The very ancient book The Five Animal Game described a new method of gymnastics that favoured movement as a generator of normal breathing and better blood circulation and consequently perfect health. »
• « While the Egyptians had always regarded themselves as the favoured people of the gods, dwelling in the home of spiritual harmony in the universe, it was really during the New Kingdom that they actively campaigned to seize foreign lands. »
• « At the same time, the Church was divided between a 'High Church' faction that favoured all the trappings of Catholic ritual, and a 'Puritan' faction that wanted a moralistic and austere approach to Christianity, more akin to Calvinism than Catholicism. »
• « Likewise, most liberals favoured the abolition of archaic economic interference by the state, including legal monopolies on trade (for example, in shipping between colonies) and the monopolies enjoyed by the remaining craft guilds - the "right" to engage in commercial exchange unhindered by antiquated laws was also part of the liberal paradigm. »

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