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The former believed in the role of the state as a provider, while the latter favored an iron fist approach to governance.

The Keystone project is not an American one, but a global one, financed and favored by major multinational oil interests.

Even as Hispanics favored Democrats this week, some Republicans wooed them ardently and made surprising inroads.

The morning to sleep, the afternoon to business and the evening to enjoyment, seems the usual routine with the favored classes.

The day was hot and the roads dusty, and Lawrence favored the horses all possible, but they made good progress.

The human race, if favored by environment, can easily double itself every twenty-five years.

The tobacconist whom he thus favored was his under-treasurer, Hardham, whom no writer about snuff should omit to notice.

In truth, the art of tobacco using is nowhere more ignored, nowhere more contemptuously neglected than in these 'favored isles.'