More counterintuitively, currying favour with Mr Trump's supposedly business-friendly administration is no picnic, either.
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One can't blame a businessman for currying favour with customers and capitalising on fame and power.
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The exempt counties are reliably Republican outposts, so currying favour with constituents is a likelier explanation than outright racial animus.
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In truth, the press's current sycophancy rises from a hinterland of intimidation, trimming and currying favour dating back to Mr Modi's rise to national power in 2014.
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New research, however, suggests a third option: that those who get ahead are adept not at stimulating growth nor at currying favour, but at cooking the books.
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For instance, he studied the decline of royal grants of monopoly in the 18th century, arguing that this helped propel British entrepreneurs away from spending their time currying favour at court towards more productive agricultural and industrial innovation.
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There is no question this qualifies as "injury in fact": "Every dollar of government patronage drawn to Trump establishments by the hope of currying favour with the president is a lost dollar of revenue that might otherwise have gone to plaintiffs".
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ETP is furious about the corps's decision, which it claims was "just the latest in a series of overt and transparent political actions by an administration which has abandoned the rule of law in favour of currying favour with a narrow and extreme political constituency".
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But a more cynical view is that the tech giants were fulfilling their own political duty, currying favour with the government by supporting a state-owned bank whose business model, though important to China's rural past, will be less relevant to its urban future.
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"As these six EU member states are making much trouble to play the role of pet dog of the United States in recent months, one cannot but wonder what do they get in return for currying favour with the United States," Kim, the ambassador, said.
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It has been controversially suggested that the newspaper was established by Ma as part of a broader scheme of currying favour with the British Conservative Party and then Governor of Hong Kong Christopher Patten so as to head off narcotics trafficking allegations made against his two fugitive uncles, founders of the Oriental, one of whom was then resident in Taiwan.
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542 Cyrus may have seen Jerusalem, situated in a strategic location between Mesopotamia and Egypt, as worth patronising for political reasons. His Achaemenid successors generally supported indigenous cults in subject territories as an expression of their legitimacy as rulers, thereby currying favour with the cults' devotees.Bedford, pp. 138–139 Conversely, the Persian kings could, and did, destroy the shrines of peoples who had rebelled against them, as happened at Miletos in 494 BC following the Ionian Revolt.
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Its first recorded ruler, Sahl Smbatean, slaughtered the Caucasian Albanian (Mihranids) royal family in 822 and declared himself "Shah of Arran", currying favour with the Caliphate by betraying the Zoroastrian Babak Khorramdin he was recognized as the ruler of Arran. Sahl later incurred Arab distrust, was arrested and sent to Baghdad; he was succeeded by his son Adarnase I and grandson, Grigol Hamam. The principality gained significant strength and prestige by 893, allowing Prince Grigol Hamam to be crowned as the king.Каганкатваци, кн.
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During Fontane's lifetime he was accused, particularly by Adolf Stahr in the liberal National-Zeitung, of being overly sycophantic towards the Prussian nobility,Ewald Frie, "Preußische Identitäten im Wandel (1760-1870)", Historische Zeitschrift 272.2, April 2001, pp. 353-75, p. 370 in particular because of his conservative politics and employment with the conservative Kreuzzeitung, where he published many of the first sections in advance. Fontane strongly denied currying favour, stating that he was writing "out of pure love of the native soil".
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Personally he was of the highest integrity and he despised any > adventitious aid to advancement, such as joining the 'right' social > organisations or currying favour with persons supposed to have influence. He > found it difficult to suffer fools gladly and this, combined with a somewhat > choleric temperament at times, alienated some of his acquaintances. Others > were never quite at their ease in his presence, never knowing whether to > take his quips, uttered in a clipped English accent, as real reproaches or > humorous chaffing.
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This was unusual, and is symptomatic of the general breakdown, since the post was elective. Thomas and six of his monks (the other desired to resign and become a secular priest) crossed Southampton Water to join Beaulieu in 1536. At Beaulieu Stevens continued the policy he had presumably already begun of currying favour with the government, especially Thomas Cromwell, King Henry's chief minister, who held the fates of the English clergy in his hands, as well as bribing Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, another minister who had his eyes on taking over the abbey for himself, with the fine horses from the abbey stables. Now the currying aimed ostensibly at saving Beaulieu.
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After his murder by the Raja of Kumaon, Ali Mohammed rose as the 14-year-old leader of his foster father's militia. A man of ability and courage, Ali Mohammed Khan attracted many afghan adventurers by his great reputation and arose as the most powerful man in Katehir. Conscious of his own power and the failing state of the Mughal Empire, he neglected Imperial mandates and irregularly paid revenue to the central government instead using the income from his lands in raising further troops, purchasing artillery and military stores and currying favour with political persons of interest with a "well-timed liberality". He used the same tactic in gaining favour with the lower rungs of society and by the invasion of Nadir Shah in 1739 he further strengthened his position with a large swath of afghans taking employment with him.
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In 2011, India Ink was shortlisted for the Circalit First Draft Contest and reached the finals of the WriteMovies International Writing Contest. She wrote The Integration of the Hijab into Police Uniforms which was published in the Behind the Hijab anthology, in March 2009 by Monsoon Press. Other works of Rahman include: The Integration of the Hijab into Police Uniforms, The Lascar (radio play), and short stories and articles: Currying Favour, Backbone of the Fleet, The Life of Lascars Aboard Merchant Ships, Cambridge's first Gurdwara, Bangladeshis Trade Curry for College and Taxis, Baishaki Mela, Asian Women Suffragettes in the 1900s, Travel with Kids, The Middle Child Syndrome and Noor Inayat Khan. Rahman has contributed to and been published in the Best of British, The Great War and SISTERS magazines, Asian World Newspaper, Children of the New Earth, The Huffington Post and BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.
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Haig's forces continued to enjoy much success, but when they began to advance towards the Hindenburg Line Haig received a supposedly "personal" telegram from the CIGS Henry Wilson (31 August), warning him that he was not to take unnecessary losses in storming these fortifications. Haig, surmising that the War Cabinet were not forbidding him to attack but might dismiss him if the assault failed, telegraphed Wilson back that they were a "wretched lot" (Wilson replied that the government were worried about needing to retain troops in the UK because of a police strike) and wrote that attacking the Germans now would be less costly than allowing them time to regroup and consolidate. When the Third and Fourth Armies reached the Hindenburg Line (18 September) Haig received a congratulatory note from Wilson saying "you must be a famous general", to which he replied that he was not (as this would have meant currying favour with Repington and the Northcliffe Press) but "we have a number of very capable generals". Milner visited GHQ, and warned him that manpower would not be available for 1919 if squandered now.
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