I don't know why males can't be more gracious about accepting favors, and I wish they would watch their rough language.

"You think a New Yorker reporter would accept favors from a lawyer in a case he was writing about?"

"I cannot accept favors from an enemy who hates me."

He did not accept favors from or depend upon Haroun or those like him.

Lawmakers who accept such favors will do so at the risk of criticism by the press and by political rivals, he said.

It bothers me to accept favors from a man I'm going to kill in another minute.

He was particular not to inconvenience others or accept favors from others.

The practice is not illegal, but it raises questions of the independence of money managers who accept such favors.

He said he did not want to accept favors from the Government.

Another is accepting favors, like access to private placements, from people who pitch stocks to the fund.