favourable
- a encouraging or approving or pleasing
- a (of winds or weather) tending to promote or facilitate
- s occurring at a convenient or suitable time
- s presaging or likely to bring good luck
- Abigail Adams once wrote to her husband John, "I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
- Such favourable supply and demand dynamics explain why the Shanghai market is trading at around 50 times earnings.
- Despite the introduction of more favourable rules in January, nearly 180 foreign press correspondents were arrested or harassed in 2007.