Usage examples for favourable:

• And further, a singularly favourable point of support for a sortie to the east as well as to the north, was afforded to the French in the commanding eminence of Mont Avron, which, armed with seventy heavy guns, projected into the Marne valley like a wedge between the northern and southern investing lines. "The Franco-German War of 1870-71" – Count Helmuth, von Moltke

• He did not seem to take a more favourable view of the approaching campaign than I did. "The Project Gutenberg Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte" – Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton

• He was entitled to an answer, and he knew that he was entitled, by his rank and position, to a favourable answer. "The Eustace Diamonds" – Anthony Trollope

• He hoped he would receive a favourable reply, for he thought it hardly possible that the King of France had heard of the emperor's intended visit to England, for when he heard of it he would not be pleased, and for this reason things were to be kept as secret as possible. "The First Governess of the Netherlands, Margaret of Austria" – Eleanor E. Tremayne