Sentence examples for a first preference for from inspiring English sources

The ordinary voters Bagehot encountered this week on the campaign trail wanted to talk about something more down to earth: the public's experience of democracy, and whether AV might possibly improve it.In west Dorset, an AV supporter, Rikey Austin, talked of yearning to cast a first preference for the Greens after years of tactically voting Lib Dem.

Seven responders expressed a first preference for the first treatment to be administered on day 8 of the ART cycle (around the time of scan and bloods), five expressed a second preference for day 3 (start of stimulation), and seven expressed a third preference for day 12 (trigger injection).

Len McCluskey, leader of Unite, will, over the weekend, be writing to his members who are signed up reiterating the union's official position, which is a vote for Corbyn and a second preference for Burnham.

It will, in other words, end up being of equal value to him in his head-to-head with Johnson – just as a second preference for Johnson will be to him in relation to Livingstone.

One student identified Aboriginal-focused practice as a first preference and three as a second preference for employment.

Updated at 1.31pm BST 12.20pm BST Over at Comment is free, Dave Hill explains why casting a first-preference for Jenny Jones, the Green candidate, for London mayor, will not be a wasted vote and will not help Boris Johnson win.

This week the campaign Londoners on Bikes recommended a first preference vote for me and for the Greens on the London Assembly.

This is of course an extreme example that implies that ultimately there are only two choices: Corybn and anyone-but-Corybn, and that everyone that doesn't give a first preference to Corbyn votes for one of the two main challengers, and gives a second preference to the other, in order to defeat the frontrunner.

Spiderlings exhibited a significant first preference for the original diet.

This said: "Selective schools are almost 50% more popular than non-selective schools when comparing a parent's first preference for their child".

Therefore 15,651 commencing students (70.7%) selected a vocation as their first preference for future practice.