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Beneath the headlines was the story of a boy born in a desperately unfavoured district of Nottingham, whose mother died when he was three, who spent his own childhood helping to bring up his three younger siblings, who never learnt to read or write properly, and whose father was jailed three years ago for selling heroin and crack.

The lost boys rescued from wilderness years | Richard Williams 2011

A voter should be able to use his SINGLE vote to vote either FOR or AGAINST his favoured or unfavoured candidate.

Vote Against. 2009

Mr. Dennel was a man as unfavoured by nature as he was uncultivated by art.

Camilla 2008

Pic: Facsimile of first edition of The Origin, held open by one of the unfavoured races in the struggle for life, the ammonite Dactyloceras sp.

Archive 2007-11-01 2007

Pic: Facsimile of first edition of The Origin, held open by one of the unfavoured races in the struggle for life, the ammonite Dactyloceras sp.

Happy birthday Origin of Species. 2007

My understanding is that ‘more slack’ meant that you would be much quicker to ban unfavoured posters, not that you would hold them to a different and impossible standard of debate.

Duke Rape Case Round-Up 2006

Thanks to the ‘dash for gas’ the former is running out and the latter is currently uneconomic to mine and politically unfavoured.

Stern Review « Climate Audit 2006

Others, on the contrary, are disposed to form unfavourable opinions of her mind, and disposition, if it be but to excuse themselves for their instinctive dislike of one so unfavoured by nature; and visa versa with her whose angel form conceals a vicious heart, or sheds a false, deceitful charm over defects and foibles that would not be tolerated in another.

Agnes Grey 2002

These individuals succesfully integrate in society, not by all means in unfavoured positions (on the contrary, as we will see later).

The Brain, A Decoded Enigma Dorin T. Moisa

If he would risk his fortune on the spinning of a coin, being aware of the prevalence of his good-luck, archæology will tell him that the best luck will change; or if, when in sore straits, he asks whether ever a man was so unlucky, archæology will answer him that many millions of men have been more unfavoured than he.

The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology Arthur E. P. B. Weigall