favourable light

collocation in English

meaningsoffavourableandlight

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favourable
adjective
uk
/ˈfeɪ.vər.ə.bəl/us
/ˈfeɪ.vɚ.ə.bəl/
showing that you like or approve of someone ...
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light
noun
uk
/laɪt/us
/laɪt/
the brightness that comes from the sun, fire, etc. and from electrical devices, and that allows things to ...
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(Definition offavourableandlightfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffavourable light

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These media cast their public performances in afavourablelightand shaped public impressions about the candidates and their opponents.
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The researchers miss some opportunities to present music in a morefavourablelightthan other subjects.
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The fact that they regarded charity in such afavourablelight, therefore, highlights the positive role it played in developing class relations.
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Consequently, seedling survival was higher when the timing of germination led to morefavourablelightcapture for a much longer time in each site.
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The party in power receives substantially more, and more favourable, news coverage and more opportunities to present its program in afavourablelight.
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If silenced, not only would the rebels go unpunished, but history might interpret their actions in afavourablelight.
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The writer puts himself and his work in the mostfavourablelight.
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Such behaviour enables the offspring dispersed beneath the canopy or into small gaps to germinate and acquirefavourablelightin the following spring and enhance survival.
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Interestingly, risk selection activities by insurers now appear in afavourablelight, because they reduce the information asymmetry that is the ultimate reason for these optima allegedly not being attainable.
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Life outside work in these cases has probably been placed in a morefavourablelightthan has working life.
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While obviously a source of possible distortion, his unwillingness to present them in any particularlyfavourablelightmay also account for the uncommon frankness of some of his descriptions.
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It would not oblige manufacturers to look at the cooperative dividend in a speciallyfavourablelight.
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Can he say that air and rail will also be viewed in a similarlyfavourablelight?
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But it showed our system in afavourablelight.
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If this distinction is accepted, then the restrictions on price display and advertising appear in a lessfavourablelight.
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I forget what this small group was supposed to consist of—very ambitious men, and they did not appear in a veryfavourablelight.
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I know how easy it is, not to juggle statistics, but to present certain statistics in afavourablelight.
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It would help to put the railways in a morefavourablelight.
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Will he look at these projects in a morefavourablelight?
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I feel that at the moment we are not showing up democracy in this country in a very clear orfavourablelight.
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