favoured state

基本解释

It is clear that the same difficulties will recur in all the towns of the favoured state.
显而易见，同样的困难还会在被选中的那个州的各个城市之间发生。
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Because publicly owned banks have directed credit to favoured state firms, bamboo capitalists have long been starved of capital.
由于国有银行一般都会贷款给知名的国有企业，民营小微企业的资金需求很难得到满足。
As a liberal paper, The Economist has long favoured a smaller state; but there are pragmatic grounds now for politicians of all sorts to make the state more productive.
作为一个不囿于成见的报刊媒体，The Economist长期以来一直倾向于使国家规模变小，但现在形形色色的政客们却以注重实效为借口使国家变得越来越臃肿。

When European exploration began, Britain's more constrained crown left trade in the hands of privateers, whereas Spain favoured state control of ocean commerce.
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There he promised cheap loans for farmers and lashed out at privatised utilities, but said he no longer favoured state takeovers, and that he would seek to negotiate, rather than decree, lower debt payments.
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If they are favoured, state-controlled banks will provide them with cheap loans and bureaucrats will nobble their foreign competitors.
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