Grant also claimed the referee might have been more favourable to Stoke after missing Piquionne's apparent handball.
South Africa is perceived as favourable to Burundian President Pierre Buyoya, while Tanzania tends to back the FDD.
They do so in a context somewhat more favourable to military intervention than seemed likely even a few weeks ago.
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Is it favourable to have results from your own properties mixed into the general results alongside those of everyone else?
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"It is not favourable to global strategic balance and stability, " a foreign ministry spokesman in Beijing said following the weekend tests.
Of the many plausible measures, Mr Castles's statement rests on the one most favourable to the view that inequality is falling.
Conservative MSP Murdo Fraser, convener of the Scottish Parliament's energy, economy and tourism committee, said taxes should be favourable to North Sea oil and gas.
The BBC understands that the outcome was favourable to the claimant.
This time, the regional balance seems favourable to a policy shift.
AD, the Abbasid caliph al-Mansur consulted a Persian astrologer called Nawbakht to find a conjunction of the planets favourable to laying the foundation stone for a new capital.
Legal charity Reprieve says the charges have been dropped because military prosecutor Lt Col Darrel Vandeveld - who resigned last month - complained about evidence favourable to Mr Mohamed being suppressed.
He has stated that the terms of Ecuador's bond restructuring following the 1999 default were too favourable to bondholders and has hinted that social spending will take priority over debt servicing.
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Whatever the misgivings of Messrs Chirac or Jospin, an opinion poll last week claimed that 59% of the French are either entirely or reasonably favourable to Mr Fischer's notion of federalism.
Dark rumours are circulating that the Malaysians and Ethiopians will try to block any agreement favourable to America in retaliation for that country's criticism of their policies on such things as the clear-cutting of forests.
Besides the larger number of emigrant rocks from its surface, Mars cooled faster than the earth after it formed, and so would have reached conditions favourable to life (a dense atmosphere, allowing for surface water) earlier.
Although the capital markets are now open to more or less any firm, they are far more favourable to those that were already in relatively good financial health, says Carsten Stendevad of the financial-strategy arm of Citigroup.
But the US appears to be growing as an obstacle, with campaigners acknowledging privately that the balance of power in Congress is likely to become even less favourable to carbon-cutting legislation after the next round of elections in 2012.
"It's important to highlight that it's not been decided that the (27 regional) Councils of Medicine are favourable to abortion, instead it's the autonomy of women and doctors, " the president of the FCM, Roberto Luiz D'Avila, wrote on the statement.
Nor were the court's rulings unambiguously favourable to Messrs Skilling and Scrushy and Lord Black, all of whom must now make their cases again in a lower court, rather than enjoying the release from jail that the Supreme Court could have granted them.
The takeover of Alcon is further complicated because the firm is based in Switzerland but its shares trade in America, leaving it with neither the protections afforded by American corporate law nor those of Swiss securities laws, both of which would have been more favourable to Alcon's minority shareholders.
"I don't know how they do that, on what basis they make their judgment, I don't suggest it's a top 20, who is that person who is going to be more favourable to the Met than others, but I was told that system existed and I quite believe it, " he said.
Costa Rica and other countries are expected to request favourable conditions to buy gas from the US. Guatemala is expected to raise the issue of immigration.
"These evaluations point to instances where e-counting and e-voting have worked well, and where electors choose to vote remotely by internet or telephone they often had favourable responses to these innovations, " he said.
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"All governments should have a favourable attitude to the euro, " Mr Pique had told reporters.
Now they say they are responding to the favourable reaction of unions to the idea and will allow talks to take place.
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Good news creates an especially favourable opportunity to respond to such challenges.
Credit markets have offered favourable terms to hospital groups raising money.
Rothen's free-kick evaded the diving Crespo and Prso took advantage of a favourable bounce to direct a powerful header past Marco Ambrosio into the top corner.
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Many bilateral trade deals offer favourable treatment to a few companies from a particular country at the expense of all the rest from elsewhere in the world.
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