seek favor
Example Sentences
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In an interview with Spanish newspaper ABC on Friday, Bartomeu said he ended the contract with the company to reduce costs and that the club never tried to seek favor from referees.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 17, 2023
"Good guy" managers are especially vulnerable to manipulation by those who seek favor and know how to play the empathy card so the manager will take it easy on them.
From Inc ● Dec. 13, 2011
"Even we of the old nobility, prince, may be reduced to seek favor of Bonaparte."
From Lazarre by Mary Hartwell Catherwood
He found himself wishing to please this wild chief, not in any desire to seek favor, but he felt that, in its way, the approval of Heraka was approval worth having.
From The Great Sioux Trail A Story of Mountain and Plain by Charles L. (Charles Lewis) Wrenn
Again, as different courses of actions are divided by intervals of rest, they might seat themselves after the completion of what they had done, to seek favor of the gods for beginning something else.
From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Arthur Hugh Clough
