President Obama favors major government spending to spur growth, while many European leaders want more emphasis on regulatory reform.

VOA: standard.2009.03.31

In fact, sometimes I think that in so far if there is an ethical difference, it favors the lethal injection.

其实，如果这两种方式的确有伦理上的,差别，那么伦理道德，更倾向于注射死亡。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Three big favors for three other people.

帮三个人三个大忙。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

He has repeatedly said he favors engagement. But does a Nobel Prize translate into political capital in world capitals?

VOA: standard.2009.10.09

She says both sides can agree on one thing: no one favors abortion as the best method of family planning.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

Kerlikowske spent years as a police chief in American cities, but he favors treatment programs over jail time for drug uses.

VOA: standard.2010.07.02

But the ideological balance on the court that favors the five-member conservative majority is not expected to change.

VOA: standard.2009.10.05

He favors an all or nothing approach to Afghanistan, either more resources, or a complete pullout.

VOA: standard.2010.04.30

Though he favors an end to the shuttle program, he is upset there will be no other U.S.spacecraft to get astronauts to the Space Station.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

Instead,the White House favors using private operators to carry astronauts into orbit.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

He favors a project to send people to Mars, but he also wants to see American astronauts return to the one place he never reached, the surface of the moon.

VOA: standard.2010.04.04

"The United States does Israel no favors when we fail to couple an unwavering commitment to its security with an insistence that Israel respect the legitimate claims and rights of the Palestinians,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.23

Muhammad Salim Akhtar of the American Muslim Task Force on Civil Rights and Elections says Obama administration support for the opposition would send a signal that the United States favors full democracy in Pakistan.

VOA: standard.2009.03.11

(applause) "And,nations within this body do the Palestinians no favors when they choose vitriolic attacks against Israel over constructive willingness to recognize Israel's legitimacy and its right to exist in peace and security."

VOA: standard.2009.09.23

Paul Pillar,a former senior CIA intelligence officer now with Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, favors a shift away from direct combat operations to a concentration on training Afghanistan's army and police, and economic development.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

Not this time.Not now." At the same time, the president said that rather than a radical shift that would disrupt health care Americans now have, he favors building on what works and fixing what doesn't.

VOA: standard.2009.09.10