0 US spelling of favour --
2 something you do to help someone, often after being asked to: --
3 a small present given to guests at a party: --
party favors
4 to support or prefer one particular possibility: --
Given the constant menace of enemies within and without, concealment, deception, and the ability to generate and recognize false beliefs in others would favor survival.
As was the case with scientific management, defenders of behavioral psychology made ethical claims, as well as truth claims, in its favor.
Within agriculture, persistent labor abundance has favored annual crops, which are relatively labor intensive, and vegetables in particular.
However, surgery directed to the treatment of the failing systemic ventricle should be abandoned in favor of heart transplantation.
The height difference is a response to the principle of snterest which favors maximum perceptual differentiation between the stressed vowels.
Researchers, for instance, can help shape results by anticipating preferred outcomes and subtly providing conditions that favor their development.
Timely responses from the state, which favored large producers, never came.
They favored the creation of strong central bureaucratic authorities to ensure that the new agglomerations of private power operated ultimately in the public interest.
