Jardine's fall into disfavour followed its decision in 1984 to shift its legal domicile to Bermuda, and then, a decade later, to delist its shares from the Hong Kong market.
I had had a vision of every possible form of disfavour, coldness, or indifference. But never, in the extremity of depression, in the utmost reaisation of my own unimportance, had i conceived this most abhorrent of possibilities-that you had never become aware of my existence.
None of them, he says, now dares propose growth-boosting reforms-as they used to under Mr Koizumi and even Mr Abe-for fear of incurring the disfavour of their political masters.
The general election due on November 28th looks set, as ever, to favour Egypt's rulers-and to disfavour, perhaps more than ever before, the cause of democracy.
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