Sentence examples for basis for preferring from inspiring English sources
Position is a ridiculous basis for preferring one pair of stockings over another, and subjects might think that, if they referred to position, they would be accused of not taking their job seriously.
But, James contends, there is no rational basis for preferring fear over hope.
There is therefore no clear-cut scientific basis for preferring either the use or the non-use of declustering.
It is ultimately arbitrary which set of mutually probability enhancing propositions we believe because there is no basis for preferring one set over the other.
Nothing introduced into nonmonotonic logic up to this point provides us with a basis for preferring the second exception to the law of inertia to the first or third.
Not even a resolute, doctrinaire follower of GOP president Grover Norquist has any basis for preferring millionaires over the rest of us.
But on an unadjusted basis, which economists prefer for looking at extended time periods, employment in the securities business is now as low as it has been since May 2000.
Second, relative states are well defined in any basis, and the question arises as to which basis should be preferred and the motivation for selecting one particular basis over others.
On a risk-reward basis, I prefer lower-rated credits with strong up- side potential for ratings upgrades.
Quine also presupposes an individualist account of inquiry; his preferred reduction basis for naturalized epistemology is behavioral and neuro- psychology.
