Sentence Examples:
Sentiment and favoritism became the controlling forces and business principles were ignored.
Favoritism, corruption and prostitution have decreased somewhat, but they have not been stamped out.
The army opposed promotion by selection, as that meant "political" influence and favoritism.
Furthermore, the opportunities for favoritism in the management of state-owned slaves were beyond calculation.
How they scouted the popular idea that regiments were treated alike and without favoritism!
Favoritism was shown in listening to accusations, which were turned aside from friends or partisans.
Whilst the royal favorite controlled the king's councils, favoritism and intrigue ruled the day.
No hand has ever been turned off without sufficient cause, or kept on through mere favoritism.
There was no question, no judgment required, no opportunity for favoritism, no chance for reserve.
Other rulers and sovereigns have had their favorites, she alone made favoritism a state institution.
There is no favoritism in the universe, but all have the same everlasting facilities for growth.
It will be found in fact to underlie almost all cases of personal favoritism and discrimination.
No personal favoritism or interest or prejudice should be allowed for a single moment to prevail.
Favoritism bestowed where it would supposedly carry for the greatest advertising power in free life!
He himself feared that the child would be spoiled by too much affectionate attention and favoritism.
The question is one of taste, it is true; but it is not a question of familiarity or favoritism.
What we strive to do is to clear the channels of appeal, and avoid favoritism and stagnation.
His sense of fairness made him mark examinations so justly that no student ever complained of favoritism.
The question is one of taste, it is true; but it is not a question of familiarity or favoritism.
You can see that there is always a little favoritism on the part of the grid-condenser detector.
The grave charge against Governor Harrison, who had large powers of patronage, was local favoritism.
Work was scarce, and the distribution of it was, to a considerable extent, a matter of favoritism.
No favoritism was allowed; all, from the highest to the lowest were held amenable to the law.
It is not to be hazarded on the claims of hereditary rank, personal freedom, or even on national favoritism.
Don's been so afraid of showing me favoritism all spring that he hasn't given me even a fair chance.
It settled everything, as she thought, by favoritism or personal advantage, or at least in a mechanical way.
She murmured; and then she kissed her, a bit of favoritism which she seldom allowed herself.
The method of reform, therefore, must be a plan of selection for appointment which makes favoritism impossible.
The moment was too critical to permit mere favoritism to sway two such men against their judgment.
"Then the men will understand that it is a general order which applies to all, without favoritism."
Never forgive that in one that you would punish in another, but treat all alike, showing no favoritism.
"Pull," "favoritism," "luck," explain the success of others as do the reverse circumstances explain our failures to ourselves.
Editor, I have no objection whatever to any favoritism that may be shown 'any member of the Royal.
She made them no show of favoritism, but they divined that she would rejoice to see them win.
Enough positive proof of favoritism existed to give point to the demand that the business must cease to discriminate.
The charge of favoritism is so well established and so generally admitted that it has ceased to be urged.
And even this would be tolerable, if the favoritism stopped there, at the boundary of corruption and tyranny.
I purposely kept my hands off, because I wanted merit and not favoritism to bring the change about.
Favoritism may give you the place of "local leader"; but nothing but natural qualities can keep you in it.
Warren showed no favoritism in enforcing his authority, and he was called on to exercise it against both sides.
There are none of the troublesome official regulations, as in the poorer valleys with their inevitable favoritism or downright graft.
The general feeling, moreover, that promotion is due to favoritism, lessens the stimulus to study and work up.
Almost every verdict on record, it seems to me, was dictated by favoritism or influence or prejudice or wrath.
Some said it was to show the people that there was no favoritism towards a man of rank and fortune.
It fought favoritism to particular regiments with equitable distribution of supplies, administered from a network of regional and local auxiliaries.
This favoritism aroused the anger and jealousy of the older brothers, and they plotted to get rid of him.
On the other hand, a system which encouraged the exercise of social or political favoritism in promotions would be even worse.
Bryant also did well to press his attacks upon corruption in government contracts, and political favoritism in military appointments.
Of all masters, the most unpopular is he who by the silent tribunal of a school is convicted of favoritism.
Every motive on earth that could induce men to act through favoritism was upon the other side of the question.
This secrecy was the source of much suspicion and of many charges of favoritism in the administration of the law.
They were, for the most part, creatures of political favoritism, and were totally unused to the service required of them.
There would have been rivalry among owners of land to secure the camps, and consequent charges of favoritism, graft, etc.
Polly took possession of Ralph's left hand by the right of favoritism which was hers with this big boy.
Then, as the painter had pictured one, he must do as much for others, so there could be no accusation of favoritism.
Though she is kind to all, it must be owned she shows the most gross favoritism towards the amiable children.
It will lead to the establishment of a system of favoritism, and the principal magistrate will be governed by these men.
He had two servants, either one of whom would be glad to use it, but he did not wish to show favoritism.
He was determined to show no favoritism to wealth and social position, and he went perhaps too far in the opposite direction.
This had been done by allowing favorites to hold more than one office, and by favoritism in the sale of these positions.
Once he showed his principal a letter written in answer to a general who had abused him and accused him of favoritism.
A subordinate of the forestry service attacked the Secretary of the Interior in 1909, charging favoritism and lack of interest in conservation.
Of course there was never any foundation for such a feeling and probably never any real suspicion of favoritism in the matter.
Again, a great feature of that service is that no longer is it a question of favoritism, but promotion by merit is the rule.
Every clerk understands that promotion is to be obtained not by favoritism, but on the strength alone of conscientious and intelligent effort.
The favoritism on the highways, in which this power had its origin in 1873, has continued throughout to be its main stay.
It is said that he makes an unfair use, for purposes of favoritism, of the immense patronage which his office places at his disposal.
Had an idea when he got here that things went by favoritism and was all for giving up right at the start.
Favoritism rules in all parts of the prison administration; it and prison politics are, indeed, twin curses of our whole prison system.
The showing of favoritism on the part of the captain is always a cause of great dissatisfaction amongst the soldiers in the company.
In the second place, there is no such thing now as favoritism of any sort to interfere with the recognition of true merit.
They point, at least, to the necessity of such legislation as may be adequate to prevent even possible suspicion of favoritism in the future.
In the third place, anonymous literary criticism opens wide the door of malice on the one hand, and of undue favoritism on the other.
Such favoritism as this, however, represents a loss to the company; and has always been stamped out by the carriers when discovered.
Where favoritism or poor judgment is shown, the reverse occurs, and there is apathy and dissatisfaction, leading to poor results and serious trouble.
It is curious to note that even to our own day, and in our own country, this system of prison favoritism is not entirely unknown.
Later in life I began to suspect that a gross favoritism, in regard to certain things at least, was being practiced in my behalf.
The first fight that Roosevelt found on his hands was to keep politics and every kind of favoritism absolutely out of the force.
It is hard to see what else could be done, unless the system of influence and favoritism against which Colonel Jones complained, were adopted.
In its reasonable application it is just, fair and impartial; equally opposed to foreign control and domestic monopoly, to sectional discrimination and individual favoritism.
Should you show favoritism for one, the rest will turn upon you; and to marry any one of them would be fatal to your art.
They calculated, perhaps, that you might appeal to President Matthews and thought they would secure themselves by reporting us and accusing you of favoritism.
The first fight I made was to keep politics absolutely out of the force; and not only politics, but every kind of improper favoritism.
He who dispenses without a sufficient reason is guilty of the sin of favoritism, and is responsible for the discontent and quarrels that result.
They watch subordinates and newcomers pass them in the race, and they are perfectly certain that this is due to favoritism, or to luck.
There is no favoritism possible in nature; no man has any privilege or gift which he has not deserved, either as a reward or a compensation.
If the library be administered on the just principle of "the greatest good to the greatest number," then such individual favoritism should never be allowed.
Civil history accuses him, if not of using his new position to make illegitimate profits, at least of showing reckless favoritism toward those who did.
Free passes, which had hitherto been productive of much favoritism and the source of political corruption, were strictly forbidden, except to a few specified classes.
Favoritism that singles out the few to the relative deprivation of the many, surely stirs up the latter, and can well do so the former.
She had shown favoritism, as well, for she sang three songs for those boys and only two and a half for the others.
At that time there were no free schools, only subscription schools; teachers generally were incompetent and employed through favoritism, and not upon their qualifications to teach.
To avoid favoritism the Congressmen occasionally recommend young men who have passed the best examination in a competition, of which there has been public notice given.
When going on an expedition Lawrence would ride with every one up and down the line, so that no one could criticize him for showing favoritism.
I think he will not be able to get in line, like his other brothers, who now bear with resignation the golden chain of royal favoritism.
Like other media of profit-making, the extent of their power and profits depended upon prevailing conditions and very largely upon the favoritism or policy of Government.
In the latitude allowed, stretching over all the Five-Twenties, there would be opportunity for favoritism; and with this opportunity there would be temptation and suspicion.
This arrangement did away with favoritism and helped to give the poor man a chance in politics, as well as the man of wealth or noble birth.
These figures do not of necessity import proof absolute and conclusive of any undue favoritism, although by circumstances and legitimate inference they point to that conclusion.
In the cases I am discussing, the difference is brought about by an interference which must be partial, arbitrary, accidental, controlled by favoritism and personal preference.