One idea favoured by the Americans when Mr Yushchenko was in office was to bring Ukraine into NATO.

尤先科在任时，促使乌克兰加入北约这一想法受到美国的青睐。

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Of 1.3m online voters, state media reported, 88% favoured the increase in total days off, and 62% approved of the shift to scattered one-day breaks.

据官方媒体报道，130万的在线投票者中，88%的网民同意增加假日总数，62%的网民同意将长假分散为单日假期。

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

这种情况下大多数游泳者会回到单侧换气——他们比较舒服的一侧。

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Mr Hazare's team say they carried out their own own 'referendum' in one constituency in Delhi, and claimed that 85% of respondents favoured their version of the bill over the government's one.

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However, the survey also found that almost one in five, 18%, favoured a full withdrawal from Europe.

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The NRC's last new reactor approval predates Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima, all of which dented public support (and not just in America either: nuclear power supplies three-fourths of France's electricity, yet in one poll 57% of French respondents favoured abandoning it).

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