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Significats de court favour en anglès

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hacer la pelota

Seek favor by fawning or flattery.

hacer la pelota
Ús de court favour en anglès
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On the contrary there are many passages which Lucan would hardly have written while he was enjoying court favour: e.g.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
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A deeper faith would have said, 'Perish court favour and everything that hinders me from making known whose I am.'
Expositions of Holy Scripture / Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Rut...
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It seems the proposals were a flash in the pan, or more likely, a populist attempt to court favour with right-wing voters.
The South African
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The Alexandrians were sorely harassed by Haephasstus, a lawyer, who had risen by court favour to the chief post in the city.
History of Egypt From 330 B.C. To the Present Time, Volume 11 (o...
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Fortified in his allegiance and court favour by this alliance, he returned in triumph to Dublin, where he was welcomed with enthusiasm.
A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the E...
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There was a prevalent, though unfounded, conviction that they were maintained in power by a combination of court favour with Irish sedition.
Endymion
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They were both connected with the highest society of their times; both enjoyed court favour, and enjoyed it in the substantial shape of pensions.
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01
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The course he took shut him off from all chance of Court favour.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
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And he, Levisohn, was clever enough to see his way to Court favour.
The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight
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The first three books were published while he yet basked in the sunshine of court favours.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
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Court favour cannot enrich a family in this country, and the operation of the law is tolerably equal.
An Inquiry into the Permanent Causes of the Decline and Fall of ...
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The Court favoured their lead.
The Psychology of Revolution
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In this poem, the author has in the most lively manner, painted out the misfortune of depending on court favours.
The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volum...
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Despite the reprehensible behaviour of the mother in removing the child, the court favoured the child remaining in its new settled environment.
The Irish Times
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Their feelings and sympathies were Hanoverian rather than English, and all court favours were bestowed as fast as possible upon their countrymen.
Bonnie Prince Charlie : a Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden
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Knowing how precarious Court favour then was, his father, when young Rochefoucauld was only nine years old, sent him into the army.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
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