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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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.
"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.
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.
The judiciary's various efforts suggest that Mr Chaudhry is as keen as any politician to curry public favour.
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