(n.) The disposition to favor and promote the interest of one person or family, or of one class of men, to the neglect of others having equal claims; partiality.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Oklahoma City Thunder, like most of the pre-postseason favorites, actually seemed to right themselves in Game 7 of their tougher-than-expected-series with the Memphis Grizzlies.
(2) One of my favorites, on the mission's "Participate" web page , is the "Be a Martian" virtual reality apps (web and mobile).
(3) MRI can detect as small as 10 mm lesion of hepatic tumor (less than 5 mm in favorite conditions) despite far longer acquisition time compared with CT.
(4) While Elop has critics who say he did not fix Nokia or much of anything else in his long career in tech, others are likely to point to a pedigree that would also make him the favorite here.
(5) The college football fans are interested in knowing where their favorite players are gonna go and the NFL fans want to know which players are gonna make their team better."
(6) We’ll collect all your questions using Guardian Witness and feature our favorites the night of the debate.
(7) Respondents showed in-group favoritism in trait evaluations, but this bias was unrelated to aggression.
(8) Therefore more is eaten during a meal consisting of a variety of foods than during a meal with just one of the foods, even if that food is the favorite.
(9) It was March 2015 and same-sex marriage was on the verge of becoming legal nationwide – carried by probably the swiftest change in public opinion in US history – but the Indiana governor and establishment favorite going into 2016 was standing firm.
(10) Walker also began the summer as a strong favorite in the early-voting state of Iowa, where voters seemed inherently drawn to his midwestern persona and retail politics – which have often included traversing from one county to the next on a Harley Davidson.
(11) My personal favorite part was Beyoncé had her backup singers and dancers in pantsuits.” Each celebrity who joined Clinton for her last push seemed to top the previous night, giving her closing appearances an aura of celebration.
(12) The bacterially catalyzed formation of nitrosamines in the rectosigmoid is a favorite theroy for the increased risk of colon carcinomas following ureterosigmoidostomy.
(13) My favorite response was a simple "it made me feel less alone."
(14) Entering the season the Seahawks looked like Super Bowl favorites and little happened during the regular season to suggest otherwise.
(15) The Cardinals made quick work of the fan-favorite Pittsburgh Pirates in the NLDS and then defeated the high priced Hollywood product that was the Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League Championship Series.
(16) Now, new employees are always warned, “Just wait until Thanksgiving.” Thanksgiving has always been one of my favorite holidays.
(17) Former senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts and Governor Paul LePage of Maine, favorites of the blue-collar north-east, are likely to be angling for jobs in a Trump White House, but a heartbeat away from the presidency.
(18) Shuttles bused groups of mourners to take turns walking quietly in a circle around the casket covered in white roses and peonies – Nancy Reagan’s favorite flower.
(19) The sulfones are the drug of choice in the treatment of leprosy, with dapsone as the clear favorite.
(20) His favorite recording of the Ring Cycle is by Wilhelm Furtwängler, a relatively safe choice.
Nepotism
Definition:
(n.) Undue attachment to relations; favoritism shown to members of one's family; bestowal of patronage in consideration of relationship, rather than of merit or of legal claim.
Example Sentences:
(1) Despite Trump’s enthusiasm for Kushner, he will have to navigate a US anti-nepotism law that states a public official “may not appoint, employ, promote, advance, or advocate for appointment … any individual who is a relative of the public official”.
(2) And the rest Also last week from the family: • Pakistan’s regional FA elections going ahead despite alleged malpractice, nepotism, death threats and phone tapping, with barred candidate Ali Haider Noor Niazi allegedly occupying FA offices with armed men to push through his nomination papers.
(3) The anti-nepotism law states that a public official “may not appoint, employ, promote, advance, or advocate for appointment” a relative to an agency or office that is run by the official.
(4) Most Scots are used to nepotism and skulduggery among entrenched – often Labour – officials.
(5) "Organised crime is by far mostly linked to construction, whether it is money laundering, nepotism or corruption," the mayor said.
(6) It says Trump flouted anti-nepotism law by appointing his daughter and her husband to White House jobs .
(7) If anyone mentions a way to challenge private-school dominance, nepotism or even the mild suggestion from Clegg that the best universities may discriminate in favour of state-school pupils, he is branded a communist!
(8) Back then, President Trump was accused of outright nepotism for seating his daughter next to one of the most influential politicians in the world at a panel debate on workforce development.
(9) They can be insufferably smug, much more so than the people who knew they had achieved advancement not on their own merit but because they were, as somebody's son or daughter, the beneficiaries of nepotism.
(10) 5 April Clegg attacks nepotism in the awarding of unpaid internships to the "sharp-elbowed and well-connected"; defends fact that he benefited from connections himself; promises to blunt own elbows.
(11) In retaliation, the Iraqi prime minister denounced his opponent's corruption and nepotism on a private Kurdish television station last June, pointing out that Barzani's son heads the autonomous region's security services while his nephew is prime minister.
(12) According to Meg Russell, deputy director of the constitution unit at UCL and a reader in British and comparative politics, the rigorous selection procedures of most constituency parties allow very little scope for nepotism or patronage.
(13) "It's a typical example of how nepotism, cronyism and corruption has taken over this place," Ahmeti, a former World Bank economist, said.
(14) Despite his lack of political experience, he played a key behind-the-scenes role in Trump’s presidential campaign, guiding personnel and strategy decisions, and will play the role of senior adviser to the president in the Trump White House, presuming he is not found to have breached federal anti-nepotism laws .
(15) It is nepotism, jobs for the boys if your face fits – and black ones usually don't.
(16) There is much to complain about: a poor education system that fails to equip them for the job market, the nepotism and cronyism that disqualifies them from many opportunities, an inability to marry because they cannot afford a house.
(17) Big bang ended the old nepotism, but introduced a form of financial despotism, when mega-banks – banks that in the end proved too be too big to fail – held the rest of society of ransom.
(18) It is concluded, that more frankness should be established about selection of the applicants in order to avoid rumours about nepotism and to advise students.
(19) His appointments, he once said, were "the greatest act of nepotism ever" - his uncle, Harold Macmillan, was then prime minister.
(20) Charlotte Siegerstetter, implementing manager, GIZ , Tlemcen, Algeria, @c_siegerstetter Acknowledge the problems: Corruption and nepotism have contributed to the failure of higher education in Africa.