Sentence examples for a new preference for from inspiring English sources

In response Moody's cut the island's credit rating, warning that the law signals "a new preference for shifting fiscal pressures to creditors" that could lead to defaults.

"The Bush administration has moved away from the traditional U.S. insistence on 'peaceful means' toward a new preference for a specific end, which is securing the status quo," said Kurt Campbell, an Asia expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

As representatives for Prospero (founded in 2000) attest, these older companies have needed to changed their focus in the last couple of years to accommodate a new preference for "me" technologies over "we" technologies.

Many have wondered whether the housing bust has sparked a new preference for urban living in dense, walkable neighborhoods over sprawling, car-dependent suburbs.

We found that lines of C. maculatus raised on a novel food resource (mung beans) expanded their host range and evolved a new preference for this resource over only ten generations of selection, and in the same short time span also showed reduced preference for the ancestral host (black-eyed beans).

Like 22 Bishopsgate, Wilkinson Eyre's tower mirrors the City's new preference for "quieter" architecture.

A number of factors combined to reduce the birth rate, among them the introduction of the contraceptive pill and the new preference for smaller families.

The new preference for less-conspicuous brands, like Margiela, reflects in part the Chinese government's clampdown on a culture of gift-giving after the online community exposed politicians sporting expensive watches that did not match their party-paid salaries.

In explaining its new preference for the unadjusted numbers, the Case-Shiller Home Price Index Committee said that the housing market crash had generated "unusual movements that are easily mistaken for shifts in the normal seasonal patterns".

It is indeed known that these island mice have adapted to a new diet (preference for earth worms, which are otherwise not much used by mice [ 52], i.e. the common mandible shape difference along PC2 could have been caused by positive selection.

A new election could lead to new preference deals being done and a call for new candidates.