Sentence examples for british preference from inspiring English sources
One consequence of his and others' failure to build, he continues, is a British preference for re-using neighbourhoods and buildings rather than properly modernising them.
The reader doesn't have to agree with this conclusion (or even sympathize with Davis's Marxism) to see that he makes a devastatingly persuasive case about the British preference for traditional market-and-revenue interests over "indiscriminate" relief.
Oakeshott gave to the old British preference for the specifics of experience over the abstractions of argument an almost ethical, life-encompassing dimension, and the dimension of philosophical value that he gave to this practical preference ended by making him a wise guide to the world as it is.
In the following years he continued to express the British preference for man-hauling (the practice of propelling sledges by manpower, unassisted by animals), a view he maintained until very late in his Antarctic career.
These utilities are based on British preference weights.
Quality adjusted life years (QALY) were based on SF-6D measurements at baseline, after intervention and follow-up using British preference weights.
However, Austen's novels did not conform to certain strong Romantic and Victorian British preferences, which required that "powerful emotion [be] authenticated by an egregious display of sound and colour in the writing".
Such arrangements were enforced in the first half of the 20th century by most countries with dependent colonies; of these, the British imperial preference introduced in 1932 was perhaps the most important.
British taste later switched to cigarettes filled with unmixed Virginia tobacco, but the U.S. market developed a preference for a blend including some Turkish tobacco.
Asked by a British interviewer his preference between Trump and Clinton, Assange replied, "You're asking me do I prefer cholera or gonorrhea?
But the U.S. Department of Agriculture has always resolutely followed the British Ministry of Agriculture's preference for foot, and leading American dictionaries have gone along.
