In January 2013, European Court of Human Rights judges found in her favour.
The irony is that Labor's perilous parliamentary position now works in her favour.
Like children everywhere, she had made the rules purposely impenetrable in order to stack the odds of winning in her favour.
But given the court orders in her favour, it could be that she will refuse to go, triggering a constitutional crisis.
Judge Lord Drummond Young has ruled in her favour, saying the strength of her family ties in the UK was a "powerful factor".
And there, despite her legal handicap, the opposition leader Miss Jayalalitha has two near-constants of Indian politics in her favour, disenchantment with the state government and pre-poll alliances.
For her new masters, all this counted in her favour.
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Jonas, 22, recently disappointed at the EU Championships in Hungary losing in the first round with the experience of three-time ABA champion and European Championships silver medallist Coulson, edging selection in her favour.
If a cowbird female fails to lay in a warbler nest in time for her egg to hatch with those of the host, she can reset the clock in her favour by killing the first clutch.
When she abdicated in 1980 in favour of her daughter Beatrix, the present queen, it occurred to some that this shy, plain woman might never have wanted majesty very much.
Even voters in North-Rhine Westphalia, the most heavily-populated German state, rejected her party in favour of the Social Democrats (SPD), who promised to go easy on cutting debt.
All those in favour of her call were told to put up their hands.
Now she must decide whether she will return the favour in her approach to the crisis in the eurozone.
She said her party was not in favour of abortion but believed that the option of termination should be available in the case of rape, sexual abuse or incest, or where a pregnant woman's life was in danger.
Like her new boss, she is in favour of joining the European single currency - likely to have been a key consideration in the mayor having chosen her for the post.
For years she had been a left-wing journalist, writing about race and sex discrimination for union news-sheets, and she had fearlessly gone on working after marriage until, on her second pregnancy, she had been fired in favour of a man.
Her dithering has been more than just a prejudice in favour of due process.
She wished to express her support for the Pakistani schoolgirl, who became a symbol of the struggle in favour of the right to education.
It is a bitter reversal for Tymoshenko since the Orange Revolution days, when she and her ally Viktor Yushchenko packed the streets of Ukraine in protest at a rigged election that went in favour of the pro-Russian Mr Yanukovych.
Interestingly, on the same day that Judge Batts issued her opinion, a ruling on a similar case filed by firefighters and soldiers went in Ms Whitman's favour.
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Ms Smith said her party had ruled out up-front tuition fees and a pure graduate tax and instead declared themselves in favour of a deferred fees system facilitated through income contingent loans.
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