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Saying something unfavourable is “caused” by one’s genes is a great way to excuse bad impulse control, and my inner Calvinist wants to tear her hair out in frustration.

ProWomanProLife » Why am I so skeptical? 2009

He had some tricky decisions to make throughout the series, and he was under pressure from a number of quarters, Flower said, referring to unfavourable pre-series media scrutiny.

Andy Flower calls it right for England ahead of Indian summer 2011

She reached the second item of the so-called unfavourable news; and her face flushed as she read how the doctor had learnt ‘that there was something in your path worse than narrow means, and that something is a woman.’

Two on a Tower 2006

Spies and informers were employed -- and every murmur, and every expression unfavourable to the ruling powers was followed with the sentence of death and its immediate execution.

Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs John Foxe

At length a treaty, in terms unfavourable to the Moslems, but in fact a victory won by

A Critical Exposition of the Popular 'Jihád' Showing that all the Wars of Mohammad Were Defensive; and that Aggressive War, or Compulsory Conversion, is not Allowed in The Koran - 1885 Moulavi Ger��gh Ali

Lastly, it is alleged that the presiding judge summed up in terms unfavourable to the Repealers.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 Various

This condition would show that the king had treated the archbishopric as a forfeited fief, and that its lands had been alienated on terms unfavourable to the Church.

The History of England from the Norman Conquest to the Death of John (1066-1216) George Burton Adams 1888

She reached the second item of the so-called unfavourable news; and her face flushed as she read how the doctor had learnt 'that there was something in your path worse than narrow means, and that something is a woman.'

Two on a Tower Thomas Hardy 1884

The conditions which have been described as unfavourable to intellectual production are not necessarily permanent, and the time will probably come when the Europeans of South

Impressions of South Africa James Bryce Bryce 1880

Stagflation can occur because of several factors such as unfavourable supply shock such as an increase in the price of oil in an oil importing country (as it is today), which tends to raise prices while slowing the economy by making production less profitable.

How to Survive the Recession 2008