Sentence examples for as second preference from inspiring English sources

But as the election will be using the supplementary vote system – a mild form of PR that only Londoners are able to comprehend, apparently – there's absolutely no reason not to vote for the independent or other minority candidate, and as long as you put Ken or Boris as "second preference" the vote will not be wasted.

About 50% of the respondents mentioned that they considered the status of plants' productivity as second preference as indicator of rangeland condition.

The key idea was to find a way of taking lower preferences, as well as first preferences, into account.

These second preferences will very likely count for just as much as first preferences in the end, because neither Boris nor Ken looks on course to win the more than 50% of first preferences needed to get them past the winning post in the first round of counting.

Since all patients were given the opportunity to choose their first priority for a change in their medical care as well as a second preference, we deemed it worthwhile to identify the most popular 'couplets' of choices.

John Woodcock, an ally of Kendall and shadow minister, has written to party members saying he is backing Burnham as his second preference as he thinks the shadow health secretary has the best chance of beating Corbyn.

The former prime minister will speak about his endorsement at the Edinburgh book festival at the weekend, revealing that he picked Andy Burnham as his second preference and Liz Kendall as his third.

But O'Brien is so confident in his horse's ability that he is flirting with running him in the $4 million Classic at a mile and a quarter on the dirt, though he listed that race as his second preference and the $1 million Mile as his first.

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

"So many of Burnham's supporters have Jeremy Corbyn as their second preference that should Burnham be knocked out, Corbyn wins loads more support and will be left unbeatable.

"Reasonable" as the second preference might seem, McKaiser concedes in his essay, it is still "morally odious", still "the product of our racist past".