Sentence examples for acquire preference from inspiring English sources

The latest setback came after a Dutch independent foundation connected to KPN announced late on Thursday that it was exercising its right to acquire preference stock in the Dutch mobile phone operator, which would give it just under 50 percent of the voting rights in the company.

The energetic advantages of this acquired preference and its importance in trypanosomoses epidemiology are discussed.

Before birth, children have not only been affected chemically by the food and air ingested by the mother: at least by the last trimester of prenatal development, children are sensitive to, and have acquired preferences for, the melodic contour of their native language beings.

Wilson advanced a notion that is as significant for moral theory as the notion of norms dictated by universal, evolutionarily acquired preferences and indeed ultimately more useful, namely ambivalence.

Taken together, WKY rats appear to be more sensitive to high doses of cocaine and need more experience with the drug to acquire a preference than SD rats.

Women must be disposed to acquire the preference for small family size even when it is present in only a small proportion of their cultural circle, if small family size is to replace large family size in the population as a whole.

The measure of learning speed is the number of trials required to acquire a preference.

Despite this change the hippocampal group again failed to acquire a preference for the long over the short panels.

If the hippocampus is important for making discriminations based on the length of objects, then the hippocampal group should fail to acquire this preference.

If the hippocampus is not important for spatial learning that takes place as the animal makes its way to the goal, then rats with hippocampal lesions should acquire a preference for the corner housing the platform over any other corner.

Baber argues further that when women do, in fact, acquire adaptive preferences, as is the case with Srey Mom, once sold into slavery, who now at least partly wants to remain a prostitute when given the chance to go into the community where she will be ostracized, we beg the question if we assume that their choices are uninformed or cooly calculated (121).