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favouredadjective
Treated or regarded with partiality.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Favouredparticipial adj.
Etymology: from favour.
Oft with some favour’d traveller they stray,
And shine before him all the desert way. Alexander Pope, Odyssey.Of her there bred
A thousand young ones, which she daily fed;
Sucking upon her poisonous dugs, each one
Of sundry shape, yet all ill-favoured. Fairy Queen, b. i.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of favoured in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of favoured in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
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The only way to achieve spending cuts that will move the needle will be to attack these favoured areas of spending - which is pensions first and foremost.
If this situation where a risk-off approach by investors is favoured drags on, markets are running the risk that the recent positive sentiment derived from the QE announcement will fade more and more into the background.
Those whom fortune has never favoured are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.
The powers the Commission is looking into under the proposal would give it wide discretion to protect not just competition, but favoured competitors, unilaterally departing from the existing global competition law framework in this way would create an uneven playing field, and risks depriving Europeans' access to beneficial services and functionalities.
French President Francois Hollande:
Unfortunately the information we have ... confirms to us that the plane came down and is lost, no hypothesis can be ruled out, nor can any be favoured over another.
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