• An election was now the inevitable result - in circumstances far from favourable for Labour.

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  • With a stiff breeze and sunny intervals, conditions were not so favourable for the bowlers.

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  • In both, a large black vote coupled with a large upscale white vote looks favourable for Mr Obama.

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  • Conditions at the site are unusually favourable for the preservation of plant materials.

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  • "The outlook for activity remains favourable for the coming months, " a Bank of France spokesperson said, adding that the automotive industry remained a problem area.

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  • McClaren will have been perturbed to see the synthetic surface being heavily watered before kick-off, a move clearly designed to make conditions more favourable for Hiddink's side.

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  • He told MPs that the government would need to approve "as soon as possible" fiscal reforms in order to have "a tax regime that is more favourable for families, workers and businesses".

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  • Amongst the various aims of the project is the creation of favourable conditions and environments for the participation of renowned bearers of intangible heritage in systematic efforts for the transmission of their knowledge and skills, the promotion and empowerment of women embroidery lace makers and the creation of favourable conditions for the renewal of contemporary forms of cultural expression.

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  • ISAs is more favourable than for long-term savings, then the success of stakeholder pensions could be jeopardised.

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  • PSAs: it is much easier just to secure favourable participation for state firms.

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  • All this has coincided with an exceptionally favourable period for corporate-debt markets.

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  • Regions of serious water deficit such as the Middle East became so in about 1970, at a favourable moment for them in economic history.

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  • He said it might be the case that the virus was found in these particular cancer cells simply because they provided favourable conditions for it.

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  • Most Basque political parties, still wrangling over forming a regional government after last month's elections, talk also of the existence of favourable conditions for peace.

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  • But he denied any suggestion that the first minister's support had been connected to more favourable coverage for Mr Salmond and the SNP in newspapers such as the Scottish Sun.

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  • America's superior performance owes a lot to structural reforms in the late 1970s and 1980s that created a more favourable climate for business, allowing firms to reap the benefits of new technology.

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  • On the same day Richard Gephardt, the top Democrat in the House of Representatives, who has flirted with protectionism in the past, introduced a bill designed to frustrate China's hopes of favourable terms for entering the World Trade Organisation.

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  • The trade minister, Vu Khoan, said the deal created favourable conditions for Vietnam's admission to the World Trade Organisation and put the seal on the normalisation of relations with Washington begun five years ago with the restoration of diplomatic ties.

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  • It is hoped that through constructive dialogue, States Parties will be able to create a favourable environment for the development of creative industries throughout the world, which, as we know, are not only the principal contemporary vehicles of cultural expressions but also generate income and employment while contributing to social cohesion.

    UNESCO: Diversity of Cultural Expressions

  • The government claimed that its tough negotiating tactics--the most controversial of which was Jaroslaw Kaczynski's claim in the run-up to the summit that a population-based voting system was unfair because 6m Poles had been killed by Germany during the Second World War--were effective in helping to secure a favourable deal for Poland.

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  • Thus, she pays her writers well, discouraging them from the normal practice among Chinese journalists of accepting envelopes full of money from firms in return for favourable write-ups.

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  • The firm credited "particularly favourable" weather for the rise.

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  • The upshot is a competition for commercial development that pulls new buildings towards richer suburbs and out of city centres, which have ill-trained workforces and heavy welfare burdens and cannot afford favourable tax treatment for developers.

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  • He points out that whilst ministerial promises of thousands of extra beds can be relied on for favourable headlines, there is a danger that expanding hospitals' capacity to cope with unusual peaks in demand could render them inefficient.

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  • Since the reform of Italy's penal code in 1989, trials have been transferred very rarely to new jurisdictions, because the circumstances in which that can happen are narrowly defined, partly to prevent defendants from shopping around for favourable judges.

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  • So when Mr Yeltsin's election campaign looked in danger of floundering, and his Communist challenger, Gennady Zyuganov, was leading him by 20 percentage points in the opinion polls, a group of nervous tycoons made clear they would put up any amount of money and procure any amount of favourable media coverage for Mr Yeltsin.

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  • Amazon and Google also confirmed they used favourable European tax jurisdictions for their UK businesses.

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  • But the enormous cost of operating in such a hostile and remote place has made them dig in for more favourable terms than the Kremlin is wont to provide.

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  • The result could easily have gone the other way: most Republican pollsters concede that the party would have lost the House but for a favourable wind in the last fortnight of the campaign.

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