decide in favor of

decide in favor of someone or something

to determine that someone or something is the winner. The judge decided in favor of the defendant. I decided in favor of the red one.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Yonah	-	Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew
Matea	-	Croatian
Aputsiaq	-	Native American, Greenlandic
Donato	do-NAH-to (Italian, Spanish)	Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Velda	VEL-də	English
Lakeshia	-	African American