Virtually nothing can be said in his favor except the insignificant fact that he was right.
But there's something to be said in his favor.
'So was I,' he pointed out, something she did not think said much in his favor.
There are things to be said in her favor already.
The people who could have said things in our favor have not been made available.
But it could be said in her favor that she had not done anything to cause those tears.
- an alternative approach, let's say, which may strike you as old-fashioned yet which has something to be said in its favor.
I have to say in my own favor that I'm not merely a speculator or, if you like, exploiter.
He wrote, "It may be said in his favor that nobody ever heard of him.
Not that she would say anything in his favor.