Mr Leviev is building another factory in Luanda, Angola, partly hoping to curry favour with the government.
Mr Gore has visited Minnesota three times in the past five months to curry favour with Mr Ventura.
Mr Bush's decision to impose steel tariffs in March 2002 was designed, in part, to curry favour with steel workers.
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Ministers must walk a fine line: such concessions may curry favour with hard-pressed voters, but they also make Gordon Brown's beleaguered government look weak and indecisive.
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Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, who has made the release of Mrs Betancourt a priority, certainly feels it best to continue to curry favour with both men.
In a bid to curry favour with locals, the 20-year-old from Northern Ireland sported a splendid pair of tartan trousers, as did his flamboyant playing partner Ian Poulter.
The original decision to give people Friday off work was made in 1977 by the prime minister of the day, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, in an effort to curry favour with the Islamists.
"There has been a growing backlash in certain sections of the police force to the criticism that came from Macpherson and it would appear that he's trying to curry favour with those sections of the force, " he added.
But the factions from within Syria suspected that exile groups were seeking to curry favour with foreign diplomats and donors by endorsing the Geneva plan at the expense of the revolution that they are battling to expand back home.
The policy benefited merchant bankers at the expense of nurses and teachers and risked losing bright people from poorer backgrounds - good policy if the aim was "to curry favour with the middle classes", but with no other redeeming features.
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Mr Odinga's Oranges have tried to curry favour with the public by calling for a trimmed-down cabinet, but seem to have been just as complicit in drawing up a bloated list of 40 ministries that was close to being agreed upon.
Economic freedoms and political rights were "mutually reinforcing", Mr Clegg added, and while the UK would inevitably have to trade with countries that did not share its values, it "should never be silent over human rights abuses to curry favour with those in power".
The judiciary's various efforts suggest that Mr Chaudhry is as keen as any politician to curry public favour.
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