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favourable - definition and meaning
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adjective pleasing , encouraging or approving adjective useful or helpful adjective convenient or at a suitable time ; opportune adjective auspicious or lucky
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Earlier this year Mugabe said Malabo was providing his fuel - starved country with oil at what he described as favourable terms.
ANC Daily News Briefing 2007
(Subtler forms, perhaps arguable, although I remain favourable disposed to-wards him, I mean look at his confrères …) However, the bootlicker Naciri went for broke.
Global Voices in English » Morocco: Bloggers React to the Banning of Magazines 2009
If he is a friend of the new President, his choice alone indicates a certain favourable interest by the President.
Major General Jonathan Scott Gration Emerges as Possible Obama Choice for NASA Administrator - NASA Watch 2009
Of course, this might lead to all kinds of schemes to register credit cards with billing addresses in favourable tax locations.
Internet - Mirror of Mankind 2002
Obviously, consistent work performance combined with good general behaviour will also result in favourable consideration for earlier release into the community under parole supervision.
The Fun and Games are Over 1978
The technological stars and planets are now in favourable conjunction, so to speak -- and they will not stay that way for long.
Canada's Stake in Arms Control and Disarmament 1969
The degree of exactitude by which the atomic weights can thus be determined by the mass spectrograph amounts, in favourable cases, to one in a thousand.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1922 - Presentation Speech 1966
If growth continues at the present pace and general business conditions remain favourable , we anticipate that we will double again in the next ten years and that we will require about 1.5 billion of new capital.
Bell is Big Business 1964
The geology is again favourable for natural gas and oil, with extensive sedimentary formations particularly in the Northwest Territories.
Regional Prospects and Problems in Western Canada 1957
It does not take violent forms (English people are almost invariably gentle and law-abiding), but it is ill-natured enough, and in favourable circumstances it could have political results.
Anti-Semitism in Britain 1945
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