The term "expressed preference" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to a stated or communicated preference or choice. Example: "The survey results showed that the majority of respondents had an expressed preference for organic over conventional produce."
The second takes the form of an expressed preference for lies.
But these traits – along with their loudly expressed preference for their favourite person, which is you – are what makes them so uncontrollably lovable.
Siddhi expressed preference for Princess Sirindhorn Anandd suggested only the King would be in a position to change succession, and acknowledged a low likelihood of that happening.
"We have ended up here with an economic argument strikingly paralleling Christianity's oft expressed preference for the repentant sinner over the righteous man who never strays from the path," Hirschman wrote in this essay from 1967.
Mr. Brown also proposed spending proportionately more money on lower-income school districts, while some lawmakers, including Democrats, have expressed preference for spreading new financing evenly across the state.
Declining health may have been one reason why these efforts to woo him met with limited success (and why he found it difficult to manage the conflict-riven ASDT), but his even-handed criticism of executive privilege and corruption also reflected his often expressed preference for a politics "that would start at the grassroots and go up".
If you factor in the millions who opted for outriders--Ralph Nader to Gore's left; Patrick Buchanan, Harry Browne, and Howard Phillips to Bush's right--then the electorate's expressed preference for a budgetary and tax regime more liberal than Bush's goes from a mere plurality of half a million to an outright majority of two and a half million.
"That's not to say that the United States does not pursue a range of counterterrorism operations around the world, but there is an expressed preference indicated for the United States military to have the lead for the use of force around the world".
At the ensuing "beer summit" at the White House, great care was shown to avoid giving offense on any front; last-minute P.R. tweaks included adding Joseph Biden to the threesome, which balanced the number of blacks and whites in the photo, and persuading one of the summiteers to switch his expressed preference in beer from an import to Samuel Adams lager, brewed in Boston U.S.A.
Only one of 33 respondents expressed preference for traditional, well-known and accepted methods.
We found that of all participants (n = 126) more than half changed their expressed preference.
