They patted little old ladies like her patronisingly on the head, while taking wads of money from special interests for whom they would do favours later.
My family has had extraordinary care from our NHS, but we do not do our NHS or our nurses any favours if we do not point out that there are some very real problems in parts of our health and care system.
Of course, many American households struggle to survive on minimum-wage jobs with employers who do them few favours.
He has been a strong opponent of gun-control, something that will deservedly do him few favours with women voters.
"The last year was a hard year and maybe the decision to bring Terry Venables in didn't do me any favours, " Robson recalled.
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"Once you get into the world of business people don't do you any favours and it's learning how to manage it, " he said.
Macau's reputation is already fragile, and suggestions that the gangland violence of the 1990s has been replaced by commercial crime do it no favours.
"It doesn't do us any favours, " Abbott told BBC Radio Cumbria.
"That night I was supposed to be fighting for a world title, but instead I ended up fighting in an eight-rounder against someone who didn't really do me any favours, " he said.
His strongest weapon is to declare, falsely, that his opponents want to do nothing whereas he favours bold action.
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At a time when, by one estimate, only one new entrant to the labour market in 30 finds formal employment, this would do the poor no favours.
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The tax dodge using foreign-source income also favours companies that do business in high-tax countries: it is not obvious that the American government should support the treasuries of those countries (or, indeed, those of the handful of Caribbean islands where 95% of the sham firms are located).
Since many do not save at all, the OECD favours mandatory plans, or at least automatic enrolment for all who do not explicitly opt out.
What the government really has to do is to end an entire culture of discrimination that favours state-owned companies over private ones.
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The Treasury favours annuities as a way of ensuring people do not unwisely spend savings which have enjoyed tax breaks only to then need benefits from the state.
That is why, says Yasunari Fujimoto of Gensuikin, an anti-nuclear group that planned the event, the demonstrators' demand is not to do away with nuclear power immediately, even though his organisation favours that.
The rules still afford the locals some help: regulations governing financial markets are still opaque, which favours domestic players, and many Japanese companies still prefer to do business with domestic firms.
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