How to Use "favored" with Example Sentences

1. In fact , there was intermittent evidence of a gender gap before 1980 : it favored the republicans .
2. Before that , living standards were already being eroded by stagnating wages and tax and economic policies that favored the wealthy .
3. A different way of breaking down investment to avoid those problems , favored by the world bank and a few other private-sector economists , is by business sector rather than type of ownership .
4. Because even half a million years ago , nine out of 10 european humans favored their right hands .
5. And 46 % of americans still favored expanded offshore drilling .