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  • noun Plural form of disfavour.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disfavour.

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Examples

  • Essentially it details some core problems existent in the current American grant system that disfavours support for research that contradicts scientific orthodoxy.

    Archive 2009-07-01 2009

  • Essentially it details some core problems existent in the current American grant system that disfavours support for research that contradicts scientific orthodoxy.

    Bureaucracy stifling academic innovation 2009

  • If they simply followed the continental European rule of writing all opinions per curiam, or even a weaker rule that disfavours dissents, that would be fine.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Souter, Sotomayor, & Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts: 2009

  • "We are looking for competency, and my plea is to eliminate whatever favours or disfavours to any particular person," he said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • All these questions involve serious policy matters, for the liberation movements, for Governments and for the U.N. Much depends on the administration: there is a danger of political interference etc., if the liberation movements are to be at the mercy of its favours or disfavours.

    LETTERS TO OLIVER TAMBO 1963

  • The facility of the comparison disfavours the raking up of similarities; I need not compare Mr. Shaw with Lucian or the persecution of Christians with the savage out-bursts of our shopkeepers against anarchists.

    Art Clive Bell 1922

  • Govt panel disfavours Vedanta mining project in Orissa

    WN.com - Financial News 2010

  • Govt panel disfavours Vedanta mining project in Orissa

    WN.com - Financial News 2010

  • Commission chairman K G Balakrishnan said he realised the gravity of the situation only when a series of such cases happened, yet disfavours a separate law against it.

    Stop honour killings! 2010

  • Govt panel disfavours Vedanta mining project in Orissa

    WN.com - Financial News 2010

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