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Because we were all from Liverpool, we favored people who were street people. George Harrison

People Favored Because Were Who Liverpool Street

New England has a harsh climate, a barren soil, a rough and stormy coast, and yet we love it, even with a love passing that of dwellers in more favored regions. Henry Cabot Lodge

Love Soil Harsh Favored More New New England Climate Passing Stormy Regions Coast England Barren Even Rough

It's one of the worst-kept secrets of family life that all parents have a preferred son or daughter, and the rules for acknowledging it are the same everywhere: The favored kids recognize their status and keep quiet about it - the better to preserve the good thing they've got going and to keep their siblings off their back. Jeffrey Kluger

Life Good Family Son Better Parents Daughter Back Everywhere Secrets Rules Favored Kids Recognize Status About Good Thing Got Off Quiet Family Life Same Going Acknowledging Preferred Keep Thing Sibling Preserve

Jews have been harmed by the threats to freedom of opinion and debate, the punishments for candor, and the decline in rigorous standards in the academy that have accompanied progressive hegemony, which insists upon the sacrosanct status of affirmative action and other policies favored by the left. Amy Wax

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Jindal's record in Louisiana is controversial, in part because, in a state which has historically favored patronage culture and a bureaucracy that offered uninterrupted employment for those who backed the right horse, he aimed to destroy the old spoils system. Ben Domenech

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Elections are a competition with only one winner. Giving more money to the opponent every time one speaks on behalf of a favored candidate discourages the speech that triggers the matching funds. Bradley A. Smith

Time Money Competition Winner Giving Every Every Time Favored Triggers More Only Matching Opponent Behalf Candidate Elections Speaks Funds Speech

When the Obama administration passed the net neutrality rules in 2015, even when we were winning, I favored trying to get these rules in a statute, because I feel that the best way to establish predictability for the marketplace is to make sure they're not subject to the whims of a partisan vote at the FCC. Brian Schatz

Best Vote Neutrality Way Marketplace Rules Favored Obama Administration Obama Administration Best Way Net Winning Feel Partisan Make Sure Because Passed Were Subject Get Trying Establish Predictability Whims Even

I've always favored kids as a player. If I walked out of the locker room and there were 100 people there and 50 of them were kids, I'd sign the 50 kids before anything else. Chili Davis

People Before Else Sign Favored Kids Locker Locker Room Out Always Were Walked Anything Anything Else Room Them Player

I well remember a leading Egyptian liberal saying to me in 2003 that she did not favor free elections right then in Egypt; she favored them in a decade's time if she and others had those 10 years to organize freely. Elliott Abrams

Saying Time Me Remember Free Others Liberal Those Favor Favored Had Leading Freely She Well Years Decade Did Egypt Egyptian Them Then Elections Organize Right

Ukrainians use the term 'political technologist' as a favored synonym for electoral consultant. Trump turned to Manafort for what seemed at first a technical task: Manafort knows how to bullwhip and wheedle delegates at a contested convention. Franklin Foer

Political First Synonym Favored Delegates Seemed Consultant Term Knows Contested How Trump Task Convention Turned Electoral Use Technical

Corporations do not pay taxes, they collect them, passing the burden to consumers as a cost of production. And corporate taxation is a feast of rent-seeking - a cornucopia of credits, exemptions and other subsidies conferred by the political class on favored, and grateful, corporations. George Will

Class Grateful Political Burden Pay Other Corporate Corporations Favored Collect Cost Feast Consumers Passing Political Class Conferred Subsidies Them Taxation Taxes Production Credits

We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective. Irving Babbitt

Degree Free Later Favored Drift Selective Main Highest Highest Degree Toward Renaissance Disciplinary Affirm Expansion May Then Away Humanism

You have the highest of human trusts committed to your care. Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number, and has chosen you as the guardians of freedom, to preserve it for the benefit of the human race. J. Reuben Clark

Substantive and procedural law benefits and protects landlords over tenants, creditors over debtors, lenders over borrowers, and the poor are seldom among the favored parties. John Turner

Benefits Law Favored Borrowers Seldom Over Parties Protects Debtors Substantive Procedural Poor Landlords Among Creditors

It's not hard to assume that voters do not have deeply considered views on each and every policy issue before them but instead, perhaps, have one or two strongly held views and then allow their favored political leaders to fill in the gaps on the rest of the issues. Kristen Soltis Anderson

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In places where money comes out of the ground, luck and a willingness to take risks are the main denominators that determine one's future, not talent or education or hard work. Money that is so easily acquired somehow comes to seem well deserved, because those who have it must be either uniquely perspicacious or divinely favored. Lawrence Wright

Work Education Future Hard Work Risks Money Luck Those Favored Easily Out Willingness Must Seem Somehow Determine Take Divinely Main Talent Well Because Where Either Places Acquired Hard Ground Who Uniquely Deserved

It's a sad commentary on our time - to use a phrase much favored by my late father - that people increasingly celebrate Christmas Day by going to the movies. Michael Dirda

Sad Christmas Time Day Celebrate People Christmas Day Father Increasingly Late Our Our Time Favored Phrase Commentary Going Movies Much Use

Dissenting analysts passionate about their positions are not unusual in the American intelligence community. Their presence - or even the rejection - of their favored positions is not prima face evidence of politicization. Michael Hayden

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We have been under military rule since 1952, when a group of army officers overthrew Egypt's monarchy and ended Britain's occupation of the country. But that only replaced an external occupation with an internal one, in which favored sons of the armed forces replaced their uniforms with suits, a move meant to create a semblance of civilian rule. Mona Eltahawy

Army Suits Country Military Group Rule Favored Civilian Only Sons Since Armed Armed Forces Forces Occupation Been Replaced Semblance Officers Ended Move Egypt Which Uniforms Create Meant Internal Monarchy External Britain

'Shabiha' is a difficult word to translate into English. It comes from the word Syrians used to describe the luxury Mercedes favored by the Assad family's operatives that the enforcers of the regime used to move money, smuggle weapons and intimidate opponents. Richard Engel

Family Money Word Luxury Difficult Intimidate Favored Weapons Mercedes Opponents Smuggle Move Regime Translate Used English Describe

Hardships of early human life favored the evolution of certain cognitive tools, among them the ability to infer the presence of organisms that might do harm, to come up with causal narratives for natural events and to recognize that other people have minds of their own with their own beliefs, desires and intentions. Robin Marantz Henig

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In science, each new result, sometimes quite surprising, heralds a step forward and allows one to discard some hypotheses, even though one or two of these might have been highly favored. Stanley B. Prusiner

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