Sentence examples for a general preference from inspiring English sources

The observation that children switched in both conditions would suggest that switching was simply their preferred response, most likely due to a general preference for novelty.

The Yankees will have a general preference for pitching, according to Mark Newman, president of baseball operations.

They have evolved with a general preference for protein, which is essential to their health, and may be more likely to ignore carbohydrates.

That is indicative of a general preference for simplicity of hypotheses in science, says Godfrey-Smith, that as a philosopher he is not convinced by.

Because of widespread sale of neutral-flavoured cottonseed oil products over many years, a general preference was developed for odourless and tasteless fats.

Using data from a survey and choice experiment with farmers, we find that there is a general preference for marketing options that do not involve a contract.

One thing that exhibitors have noticed is a general preference for comedies over other genres this year; 6 of the top 10 films of the year to date have been comedies.

Mr. Fox shows a general preference for vivid images — bright red Halliburton trucks, beeping but unidentified scientific instruments — over the more mundane crossing the t's and dotting the i's of investigative journalism.

The argument that some matters, such as abortion, are of such moral urgency that they supersede a general preference for devolution sounds reasonable, until you try to decide which subjects are suitably urgent.

Infants' looking patterns in Exp. 1 thus cannot be explained by a general preference for an approaching over avoiding adult and suggest that infants attend to more responsive caregivers before they can approach or use language to communicate with their own social partners.

For this reason, a general preference for minimalism is no more defensible than a general preference for rules.