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The word 'union' seems to be out of favour, meanwhile, perhaps because it has confusing multiple meanings.
BBC: What price the Union?
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But there are signs that, even here, the British identity may be falling out of favour.
BBC: Is brand Britain losing its lustre?
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The leadership of the Church were fully aware that the vote would be close and spoke out clearly in favour of change.
BBC: Women bishops vote results in supporters' tears and anger
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It is to be hoped that Angelenos speak out in favour of the inflatables.
ECONOMIST: Visual blight
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Modi also said England paceman Steve Harmison, who has a central contract but is currently out of favour, would be a welcome addition to the start-up league.
BBC: England stars 'want India chance'
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This makes it entirely possible, if a couple of the Democratic abstainers can be worked on and the 10 Republicans who voted in favour of the bail-out stick to their guns, that the bill could be approved then.
ECONOMIST: The Senate turns away America's carmakers empty-handed
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But he told MPs last week he favours the most ambitious of these - scrapping all current out-of-work benefits in favour of a single payment, which would be tapered to encourage people back into work.
BBC: Major reform of UK benefit system 'four years away'
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If only a fraction of the almost 15m first-time voters of 2008 (the vast majority of them Democrats) can be persuaded to turn out again, party organisers say, it could tip lots of races in their favour.
ECONOMIST: And not about to rush to the polls in November, either
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If the main target is out-of-favour oligarchs, rather than civil liberties as such, a leading candidate would be Yuri Luzhkov, the mayor of Moscow.
ECONOMIST: Putin versus the oligarchs?
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Cooper is set to hand out-of-favour Tommy Rowe a start of the left wing, but says it will be a huge blow to lose Boyd.
BBC: Peterborough's Mark Cooper expects Preston interest
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Mr Abdi's crime was to be a founder of a polling institute which had carried out a survey commissioned by the majlis that revealed 74% of respondents to be in favour of a dialogue with the United States.
ECONOMIST: The trials of everyday life