Favouring meaning

Shaftesbury was attacked, but was saved for the time by a favouring jury.

The next chance was taken in less favouring times.

The bill was carried by the government in April 1895, as well as another important measure favouring the construction of local railways by private contractors.

These and similar statements favouring the doctrines of the New Testament made many Kabbalists of the highest position in the synagogue embrace the Christian faith and write elaborate books to win their Jewish brethren over to Christ.

In order to secure the sole authority, Caracalla barbarously murdered his brother in his mother's arms, and at the same time put to death some 20,000 persons, who were suspected of favouring him, amongst them the jurist Papinianus.