This is not to say that any social system is as preferable as any other.
This brings us to the Transitivity axiom, which says that if an option \(B\) is at least as preferable as \(A\), and \(C\) is at least as preferable as \(B\), then \(A\) cannot be strictly preferred to \(C\).
So \(A\preceq B\) represents that the agent we are interested in considers option \(B\) to be at least as preferable as option \(A\).
Mr. Rosenbush saw the "can't" as preferable to a "won't".
Nevertheless, Vieira de Mello believed that Iraqis saw the U.N. as preferable to the Coalition.
Whatever its faults, Italian occupation was seen by Eritreans as preferable to feudalistic domination by Ethiopia.
She saw Yale as preferable, but Connecticut College was "just enough".
The pain inflicted must be far greater for the country to see backtracking as preferable.
Both sides might genuinely see a peace deal as preferable to that.
Consumer Reports has repeatedly rated these services as preferable to nonfiber services.
The BMA, usually opposed to local deals, may see terms offered by individual trusts as preferable to Hunt's contract.
