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In just a few years, Japan has also lost its status as the favoured regional base for expatriate companies in Asia.

They say even during the war the Qataris bypassed them, sending weapons directly to favoured units at the front.

as the boat so favoured is usually in a rough plight , and mostly under water , so , sydney had a swamped life of it.

He said he favoured a return to his father's original vision of improving conditions for the poor of all ethnic groups, not only Malays.

This intellectual and artistic outbreak in Athens was no doubt favoured by the conditions of the time.

The gods have indeed favoured Georgia this winter, bestowing a mild one when a harsh one might have been disastrous.

Scientists at the EPA have long favoured such a ruling, which did not contain any specifics about reducing emissions of the pollutants.

He said he also favoured a "code of conduct" for food export bans so as to ensure humanitarian food aid programmes are not affected.

Let's face it. Condoms are a bit of downer. So how do we convince guys to put it on? And make durex the favoured choice.

In other words, there was no single "natural" rate: policymakers could in principle try for the equilibrium they most favoured.

That many of these moves make it easier to ship renminbi out of the country does not change the redback's natural and favoured direction.

This was the opening attack of the season by one of the storms with which Shanghai was favoured each summer.

Such a scheme is included in legislation that has emerged from Congress so far, and is strongly favoured by many Democrats.

That seems to be the route favoured by senior figures in the regime, few of whom show any signs of being closet democrats.

Though often represented as fully armed, helmet and breastplate and all that, she favoured patriotic defense.

The favoured strategy is to snap up a small bank, healthy or not, and turn it into a vehicle to scoop up failed local rivals.

We thank you for your inquiry of copper sheet, for which we quote you as below, and hope to be favoured with your order .

In China, he always said, there was no point in the sort of dangerous and eye-catching stunts favoured by Greenpeace.

To a query, he said his government was willing to render all possible help to make Kashmir a favoured destination for Bollywood once again.

Another way favoured by manufacturers is to take a piece of data from the image and assign it a secret code.

She had been courted by a wealthy suitor, whose addresses her mother had favoured, not withstanding the objection of old age and deformity.

There are caps (chiefly men's) and one pair of lacy, embroidered mules of the kind favoured by Venetian courtesans.

Yet when he produced the conventional landscapes favoured by Linnell, they did not sell either.

If all this hadn't happened, he would most likely have been favoured to beat Nicolas Sarkozy in next year's presidential election.

For a time, it was successful, but then evolution struck back, as natural selection favoured the spread of insecticide-resistant genes.

And the lack of climate legislation meant there was no price on carbon, which would have favoured nuclear power.

However, Emperors could elevate another more favoured child or the child of a more favoured wife to the status of Crown Prince.

Past research has shown that people are often willing to pay much more for a favoured brand than for seemingly identical alternatives.

Although Nicholas II described himself as a man of peace, he favoured an expanded Russian Empire.

Although he is best known as playing in his favoured role behind the striker, he has also featured in a wide-right role for the youth team.

During the campaign, for example, he said he favoured civil unions but refused to endorse gay marriage.

It was partly in anticipation of this that we highlighted owning China "A" shares as one of our most favoured trades for 2009.

The general favoured him with an interview.

Manchester City and Liverpool were also in the hunt for the 28-year-old, but it favoured Arsenal that Cole is settled living in London.

Rapid growth, they claimed, had been a sham based on governments pouring cheap money into favoured firms.

A year on, when he spoke at the World Economic Forum in Davos, he was favoured by 35% of Russians for president.

who supposed that, though to be well favoured might be the gift of fortune, a family name came by nature.

One Japanese official, who supports the legislation, said the status quo favoured China.

In a ruthless onslaught in the heart of Kabul, militants attacked a large guesthouse favoured by United Nations workers.

On the other, since becoming pope, he has repeatedly signalled a rejection of the unconditional dialogue favoured by his predecessor.

The laws are designed to protect endangered species like badgers and otters, whose fur used to be favoured by sporran makers.

It is now largely out of fashion, especially in bureaucratic circles where the favoured new term is "Roma" .

The favoured fruit was typically papaya, which is large and easy to share, but oranges and pineapple also scored.

And the state, at least through provincial governments, continues to shovel cheap money at favoured companies.

This was a blow to President Chen Shui-bian, who favoured Mr Su and a tougher stance towards China.

So far, however, such natural-language processing has favoured narrow fields like medicine or law where the terminology is limited.

This reaction is known to be favoured in the presence of a relatively high amount of fluoride in the electrolyte.

Safety concerns dog China's favoured "fast reactors" , while radioactive-waste is the problem no one seems able to solve.

"Air China has always been the favoured child, " said Peter Harbison, chairman of the Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation.

Instead, a formation deep within the proto-Galaxy or within dark-matter mini-haloes might be favoured.

They were also attracted by the fact that he comes from a small EU country that has long favoured European integration.

Despite all the fuss, less favoured euro-zone borrowers have been far from shunned by the bond market.

Early on, building sites were his favoured subject; there were lots of them as London began to recover from wartime bombing.

One favoured idea involves filling agricultural land with carbonate and silicate compounds to turn fields into "carbon sponges" .

What was more, women with similar MHCs favoured the use of similar commercial perfumes.

Above all, he thought, the super-analytical approach favoured by GM's senior management was fatally flawed.

Curiously the crunch has not shaken faith in two currencies favoured by yield-hungry investors: the Brazilian real and Turkish lira.

Mr Hanson is a knowledgeable biologist and an active environmentalist, but his favoured place is in the field, witnessing things first-hand.

With Fletcher's introduction, Evra switched to his favoured left back position, while Heinze moved into the centre to partner Wes Brown.

These rates robbed America's consumers of any benefits from saving and favoured the debt-makers.

This uneven pattern is the result of protecting favoured departments, which can recycle any efficiency savings they find.

Imagine that you knew the government favoured these particular killers and wasn't going to do a thing to help you.

China's growth miracle features capital controls, artificially cheap loans to favoured companies and a managed exchange rate.

Why this behaviour might be favoured by natural selection, though, is a difficult question to answer.

If it brought economic development to less favoured lands, that would surely be welcome.

They headed for a wooded glade favoured by barbecuing Muscovites, and began clearing leaves and rubbish.

He could not make up his mind whether or not Mr. Slope was in truth a favoured rival.

Everything we laboured for and favoured more than earthly things reveals the hollow ring of false hope and of false deliverance.

FOR: Has long been touted as one of the favoured successors and is admired by many at Old Trafford.

Most of the clients are women, and favoured procedures include lip enlargement, reduction of a double chin, and nose surgery.

Instead , it favoured resurrecting plans for a partial sale of AIA in an Asian stock market listing .

The producers of internationally traded goods and services would be favoured , even more than they have been lately .

In a poll conducted for the German Banking Federation, 61% of voters wanted more social protection and just 23% favoured more market.

It is our invariable custom, when opening new accounts, to be favoured with a couple of references.

The general trend is that the lower temperature favoured feminization, while higher temperature favoured masculization.

Axel Weber, now head of the Bundesbank, is favoured to become the next president of the European Central Bank.

Some of Mr Cameron's advisers say that the coalition allows them to jettison policies favoured by their party's right-wing fringe.

Globalization has favoured our life in economic, political and academic aspects. It proves an irreversible process, which nobody can shake.

The last decade has favoured "promise big and hope for the best" politicians over realists with grit.

Sounding a little defensive, she assures me her braids are a family tradition: her village grandmother favoured this style.

It could be argued that localities subject to periodic abnormally dry early summer conditions should be favoured for seed orchard sites .

There was good reason why under the Bush administration Egypt was a favoured destination for "rendition" of terrorist suspects.

The yen has long been a favoured funding currency for the carry trade because of Japan's permanently low interest rates.

Howeve, if there was an impression that Milan were favoured then it's better to step down.

Chinese people tend to be less open, I believe this style would be favoured by many.

When you read of the high and sweet communions enjoyed by favoured saints, you sigh and murmur in the chamber of your heart, "Alas! "

But Mr Bongo brought decades of tranquillity, a rare enough commodity in Central Africa; order, and prosperity for a close and favoured few.

It could promote the interests of favoured investors, use CDOs to hedge its own loan book or even take a trading position.

if these enemies or competitors be in the least degree favoured by any slight change of climate , they will increase in numbers.

In the spirit of the times, which favoured grand federal works, the Army Corps of Engineers then shackled the river in its current concrete.

About sixty of those who had been favoured with invitations travelled by this train.

The option currently favoured by most physicists, including Hooper, is as yet undiscovered weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs).

I addressed myself first to Stalin , who I knew favoured the idea of a rendezvous at Teheran .

Both countries entered into a trade agreement in 1984 which granted them the status of Most Favoured Nation (MFN).

And will all the subsidiaries get a fair crack of the marketing whip or will those that charge the most be favoured?

This afternoon they are going to vote on the proposal of the most favoured nation treatment to that country.

However, it is favoured by socialism and supported by the land of socialism and the socialist international proletariat.

Many Democrats were aghast that Bill Clinton favoured such a bill.

He said that he favoured granting an amnesty to 100 prisoners of conscience in the island's jails.

This development has been favoured by the fact that Switzerland offers a stable social environment, and low tax rates.

President Barack Obama's administration favoured roughly doubling the size of the Afghan army and national police.

It is favoured by virtually all the rural publishers, who make a substantial investment in the research for the benefit of media buyers.

Rejecting the street-style photography favoured by many of her Magnum colleagues, Ms Arnold has always focused on specific projects.

Pen is the relatalion one of the largest stationery, those varieties favoured large pen pad to cards and membership cards.

The food is a lot better than at the foreign correspondents' once-favoured haunt in Baghdad, the Hamra Hotel.

But it also has weak law enforcement, a large sex industry and much poverty. So it has become a favoured destination for paedophiles.

But with the dawn of stagnation, academic economists favoured reduced government intervention, and lower, flatter tax systems gained ground.

Why the rigmarole of a military survey before enacting a measure most Americans already favoured?

Gone are the days of the cold war when West and East propped up their favoured dictators for geostrategic reasons.

In addition, the favoured description for the sighted was the favoured description for the blind in every instance.

More than half the buyers were American, leading to a strong show of support for US-favoured artists such as Richard Prince and Koons.

To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but reading and writing comes by Nature.

The oil monopoly is a nationalist totem, but its only beneficiaries now are the oil workers' union and favoured suppliers.

Oil of turpentine is favoured over petroleum solvents as an oil-paint thinner, varnish solvent, and Brush cleaner.

ah , certainly - i see now : you are the favoured possessor of the beneficent fairy , i remarked , turning to my neighbour.

As they get more money from clients, such managers will put more money into their favoured stocks, giving momentum an extra boost.

Mr Yusuf favoured warlordism over reconciliation, goes this argument, so the chances of peace should improve markedly with his departure.

Not all Confucian ideas are favoured today, especially among the young.

But, being in disgrace, I was not favoured with a description of the interesting objects she saw.

China's development has traditionally favoured the city over the countryside and the coasts over inland regions.

The labour ministry had favoured tougher rules , including a right to block deals if they threatened big job cuts .

Liverpool's No. 12 featured for 71 minutes in his favoured role just off the striker, and set up the opening two goals.

But he is heavily favoured to win a second round in November, and his party is expected to control nearly half of Congress.

Another important faction ofthe SLA refuses to, dashing any hope of a comprehensive accord favoured by Western diplomats.

During the Perestroika reforms of the late 1980s, Georgia developed a multiparty system that strongly favoured independence.

Having players in your squad who list one another as favoured personnel will generally benefit the team.

Three-fifths of those polled by the Yomiuri Shimbun said they favoured the idea of Japan joining the TPP.

Recession has favoured McDonald's over BK, whose share price has fallen by half since the economy was flame-grilled in the summer of 2008.

But the French, when they took over the new state of Lebanon after the first world war, favoured the priests and their school.

The Wall Street elite had favoured such works during the seven-year boom in art prices.

The dictator's third and youngest son, is thought to be the favoured candidate as successor.

Unfortunately, the political trend for the last 20 years has favoured the opposite strategy of assimilation.

The latter is favoured by the party's left, especially Mr Balls, who covets the shadow-chancellor role (see article).

Economists, investors and fellow central bankers overwhelmingly favoured Mr Bernanke's reappointment.

The favoured approach now appears to be a witch's brew of alternatives.

Five years later it is the Taliban's favoured weapon across the country and the biggest killer of coalition soldiers by a large margin.

Recession has favoured McDonald's over BK, whose share price has halved since the economy was flame-grilled in the summer of 2008.

China is also favoured to win more gold in the men's and women's individual all-round gymnastics at the Asian Games Town Gymnasium.

Many critics thought De Niro would have favoured Drive, a violent road movie that had critics cheering during its goriest parts.

With multistage holding up pressure system, the smooth transitive pres-sure gradient favoured crystallinity and properties of PP .

Punting on clapped-out securities is now on many a hedge fund's list of favoured strategies.

It offered cheap loans to favoured industries, suppressed the value of the yen and implemented non-tariff barriers of exquisite ingenuity.

The lures are pieces of foam rubber carved into the shape of peppers (a food favoured by a species called the great fruit-eating bat).

Experts have identified four hinting styles that women use to try to ensure their favoured choice is placed under the Christmas tree.

Politicians prefer to bung cash at favoured initiatives; it's in their nature, but makes environmental gains harder to come by.

The toxin, favoured by some celebrities as a wrinkle remover, relaxes jaw muscles and may reduce grinding.

They are part of the new wave of collectors whose tastes are shaping the market and also sending up prices of their favoured artists.

It masks an odd kind of stability that has made Thailand a favoured destination for foreign investment and foreign vacations alike.

Fiscal policy, favoured by the left, requires political choices about levels of taxation and public spending.

We cross the muddy cafe au-lait waters of Lake Cooroibah, once favoured fishing territory of the indigenous Kabi Kabi people.

Eric Holder, the attorney-general, had favoured the idea of trying Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in New York City, but locals objected.

western sausage is one of the major manufactured meat which is favoured by most people.

The rage of America's tea-partiers will not abate simply because some of their favoured candidates were elected in 2010.

They are far too susceptible to scandal (witness the current furore in India over the sale of mobile-phone licences to favoured groups).

Luxury hotels and other sites favoured by Westerners were singled out for attack.

The world is paying dearly for policies that favoured the growth of economic wealth over the protection of ecological health.

He favoured her with a malicious glance.

Instead of mass privatisations, China has opted for selective liberalisation that has favoured foreign investors over local entrepreneurs.

The day before her murder, after the annual church fete, her relationship with the favoured elder son is disclosed, to general outrage.

Outside the state firms, the fiddly conglomerate is the favoured form of organisation.

In the absence of cold chains, such conditions favoured further processing of meat and temporary storage of processed meat products.

Second, governments are subsidising this manipulation, by giving debt tax-favoured treatment over equity.

USA and the rest of the world made China a "most favoured nation" when it comes to commodities and products.

Modern financial systems have favoured instruments and intermediaries that promise large returns in the short term.

Pakistan's cabinet voted to grant India most-favoured-nation status, a fillip for the peace process that began in February.

A panel of three judges ruled that the provision for Islamic courts in the constitution favoured Islam over other faiths.

For the first time in the survey's history, Toyota has lost its spot as the suppliers' most favoured customer, to be replaced by Honda.

Fossil fuel energy systems favoured vertical economies of scale and giant, centralised enterprises.

But the diary, which describes Afghanistan before the COIN doctrine was favoured, shows that you cannot rely on CT alone for long.

We felt that by going along with this supplier, we would have been favoured on some other occasions.

Mr Grinstein will not be drawn on his favoured successor, but wants an inside appointment.

In the Middle Ages, unsanitary urban conditions favoured the outbreak of population-decimating epidemics.

Mr Micheletti's regime has imposed a curfew, suspended some constitutional freedoms and shut down media that favoured Mr Zelaya.

The verdict of the consumer marketplace favoured the Japanese production system.

The favoured countries were America, followed by Switzerland, Poland, Austria, Britain and France.

Although Lew was highly favoured , he came with an ace of losing the match.

they are the result of mutations favoured by natural selection at some point in the past.

Not all those campaigning for women's right to vote favoured militant action.

Telecoms group Vodafone held up amid sector strength, as investors favoured stocks with financial strength.

The robots were initially programmed to share the insects' preference for darkness and to accompany them into their favoured shelter.

With no competition, favoured firms get away with delivering bad roads and overpriced hospitals.

Instead, the House decided to give away 85% of them free to politically-favoured entities.

I don't like the idea of one group being favoured over others.

There were mixed fortunes for candidates favoured by the conservative tea-party movement.

Solutions will be needed for all, starting with the least favoured people.

Second, there will be a growing split between Amazon's proprietary Kindle and the open approach favoured by its rivals.

These packages are being snapped up by City companies eager to ingratiate themselves with favoured investors.

In a Bloomberg poll, 60% of self-identified Tea Party supporters favoured overhauling or abolishing the Fed.

One solution favoured by left-leaning politicians is to keep all children in the same classrooms for longer.

Similarly, the USA may want to intervene in Central America to make sure the United Fruit Company maintains its favoured position.

Thesame may have been true in evolution, as merely being dispersed inspace should have been advantageous and should have favoured mobility.

Beer remains the favoured libation, though the percentage of wine-drinkers has increased since Mr Obama took office.

Professor Scott says being least favoured in a family can colour our behaviour as adults.

Google took a stand in 2004 by insisting that its IPO was done by auction rather than Wall Street's favoured method of bookbuilding.

This may erode the architecture of China's credit system, which allows policymakers to channel funds to favoured firms and projects.

If the answer is "yes" , all of humanity might come to enjoy the historically unprecedented lifestyles of today's most favoured people.

Mr Bush favoured capping carbon emissions until the voices of industry prevailed.

In office, he has favoured group rights for Amerindians, who make up around half the total population of 12m.

In general, investors favoured faster-growing emerging Asian markets over developed ones.

His favoured method is the rattan cane, and he spanks his children's calves and hands when they break his rules.

It is true that coal remains cheap, and is the favoured fuel for power stations in industrialising Asia.

Conventional thinking favoured the use of many simple integrated circuits on separate chips.

Guncutters are custom-designed heavily armed shuttles and landers, often favoured by Rogue Traders, explorers, and less savoury elements.

That demonstrates underlying fitness of the sort favoured by evolution.

He called for long-term development, not a "quick impact" approach favoured by foreigners.

Donor countries also insisted on using favoured home contractors rather than local workers.

He remains in office until February's general election, which Binyamin Netanyahu is currently favoured to win.

However, it dispels questions about whether James remained the favoured sibling to succeed his father.

Yet Saddam attracted real constituents, and not only from the favoured among his own clan, tribe and fellow Sunni Muslims.

Today's favoured launching techniques are the airplane tow and the automobile tow .

They are opening swanky offices in cities favoured by the wealthy, and recruiting armies of bankers who can lure new clients.

This favoured its economic development and ended any possibility that Switzerland might break up.

Holding them is costly, given that yields on the safe assets favoured by reserve managers are comparatively low.

Through state-controlled banks, it funnels the nation's savings to large, politically favoured firms.

Alberta is investing C$2 billion in carbon capture and sequestration, its favoured way of cleaning up emissions.

But changes in the wider world also mean that tired slogans favoured by successive governments are wearing very thin.

Mr Medvedev favoured gradually altering the rules to ensure political parties of all shades were represented in parliament.

And the ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven well favoured and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke .

The stronger currency would cost favoured industries some foreign customers.

Our Founding Fathers opposed concentrations of power, economic or otherwise, and favoured a system of checks and balances.

There were hints that revamping the existing ground may be favoured, but no firm decision has been reached.

The all-access metered-paywall model favoured by American newspapers is problematic in Britain.

All the best seats were reserved for favoured customers.

Chinese emperors favoured employing eunuchs in senior positions.

Statistics of graduates based on solid, quality comprehensive and rich in spirit and practice have been favoured in the community.

He favoured Luigi Nono, Hans Werner Henze and, most of all, the nervous Soviet composer, Dmitri Shostakovich.

But outside Japan, Shiseido is a relatively niche brand, favoured more by well-heeled consumers.

I have in mind pure space, which is commanding higher and higher returns because there is so little of it in favoured locations.

He is also said to be favoured by Rinat Akhmetov, Ukraine's richest tycoon and Mr Yanukovich's sponsor.

The weeping - willow , the weeping- birch , and other trees of early and pendulous shoots, flourish in these favoured recesses .

It is clear that the same difficulties will recur in all the towns of the favoured state.

That goal looks in jeopardy, mainly because the $586bn stimulus package rolled out in 2008 favoured China's biggest and dirtiest industries.

In this situation most swimmers revert to breathing to one side - their favoured side.

A decade ago it favoured economic opening, even of retailing, and celebrated India's capitalist boom.

The recession, and the way passenger taxes are graded by distance and standard of travel, have favoured their short-haul, no-frills model.

The Americans and the Iranians will both try to promote favoured candidates.

Another account is favoured by economists less convinced of market efficiency and more impressed by information asymmetries.

A higher consumption tax, Mr Yosano's favoured remedy, would probably mean less consumption.

Some good old-fashioned homework on Messi's favoured striking techniques helped too, though.

Berlin has the investor it favoured from the start, believing this option would best safeguard German factories and jobs.

Now the favoured contender is apparently the American design, which is being developed by General Dynamics.

Second, renminbi-denominated funds are also favoured by investors.

But some experts believe being less favoured can have positive consequences.

He suggested that Mr Romney favoured a timetable forending the war in Iraqand "waving a white flag of surrender" .

In 2000, Ann Widdecombe joined the ranks of those favoured few who have received a custard pie in the face.

Their house is in a very favoured position near the park.

When you strip it down it is actually a simple project so low bids please guys as they will be greatly favoured.

At the centre of the archipelago, perhaps in the most favoured spot of all, lies an island that has been deserted for many generations.

Physicians must prepare to respond swiftly to adverse reactions to their favoured course of treatment.

AS HUMANITY grabs great swathes of land for its use, the wilderness favoured by other animals shrinks.