However, the Weensmuir Farmhouse proposals did win favour with both planning officials and councillors.
The drug's growth-promoting ability has also found favour with beef farmers, particularly in China and Mexico.
Although the independents are out of favour with investors, some big oil firms clearly admire their strengths.
Mr Leviev is building another factory in Luanda, Angola, partly hoping to curry favour with the government.
Although these new ones differ greatly, neither is likely to find any better favour with chairman Bill.
If he curries too much favour with the right, though, Mr Buzek may drive away the liberals.
Mr Ahmadinejad's influence has been waning since he fell out of favour with the supreme leader last year.
Mr Gore has visited Minnesota three times in the past five months to curry favour with Mr Ventura.
The 28-year-old midfielder was released by Chelsea earlier this month after falling out of favour with manager Carlo Ancelotti.
German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans is unlikely to find favour with traditionalists, with his graphic images of naked body parts.
The fly-half has fallen out of favour with England manager Martin Johnson and has not played since November 2008.
Bilateral and regional trade agreements are already in favour with the Bush administration.
However, he fell out of favour with Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger and was loaned out to AC Milan last season.
Their fourth-wicket partnership turned the match in their side's favour with Bravo, who earlier took 3-32, winning the man-of-the-match award.
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But the signing of Mushtaq Ahmed, the leg-spinner for some time out of favour with Pakistan, proved an inspired move.
Mr Bush's decision to impose steel tariffs in March 2002 was designed, in part, to curry favour with steel workers.
The giving of gifts, often to gain favour with officials, is common during lunar new year, which begins next week.
Petrobras has been out of favour with investors since 2010, when the government diluted minority shareholders in an oil-for-shares deal.
Judge Phil Edwards scored the bout 116-114 to Quigley, but Smith found favour with Howard Foster (116-113) and Ian John-Lewis (116-112).
Akram played nine Tests and 23 one-day internationals for Pakistan, but has been out of favour with the selectors since 2001.
Although Mr Sabanci regularly berates Ankara's bunglers, he has managed to keep in favour with Turkey's political elite for three decades.
The idea has also found favour with some members of the European Parliament and some member-state governments but for somewhat different reasons.
Alas for poor Ms Dati, who is no longer in favour with the president, the rule still applies to her it seems.
However, the show fell out of favour with ITV in the early 1990s, and Thames took it to BBC One in 1994.
The MEK was given refuge in Iraq by former leader Saddam Hussein, but has fallen out of favour with Iraq's new Shia-dominated leadership.
Mr Simson took the helm promising big changes at the company, which, like other conglomerates, had fallen out of favour with the market.
India extends large, soft loans to curry favour with a friendly regime in Bangladesh and is paying for post-war reconstruction in Sri Lanka.
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Pakistan has in the past curried favour with America by turning over a prisoner or two only to return to its old ways.
Cipriani won the last of his seven England caps in 2008 before suffering a serious ankle injury and falling out of favour with Johnson.
The Blues offered Robinson, who is out of favour with Wales, a new contract and he was given more time to finalise his plans.
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