1.   No longer will the path to advancement be assured by currying favor with a few influential bosses.

2.   And employers may feel obligated to buy extra services to curry favor.

3.   And he saw people killed after being named by informers who wanted to curry favor with the brutes running the village.

4.   Authors curry favor with newspapers, caring more for good notices than for having done good work.

5.   Before elections, Turkish governments tend to put aside economic reform programs and increase spending to curry favor with voters, accelerating inflation.

6.   Because it had not yet been approved by a federal judge, her subsequent taping is being prosecuted by an ambitious pol currying Democratic favor by seeking vengeance.

7.   Blacks, for instance, are still more likely to curry widespread favor in comedic, not dramatic, roles.

8.   Borrero said it was wrong for WADO to limit free expression in order to curry favor with politicians.

9.   A Texas energy giant finds itself on the financial ropes despite spending years currying favor with Washington.

10.   Above any conservative group in Texas, Bush has most openly curried favor with religious conservatives, particularly groups like the Christian Coalition.