Sentence examples for former preference for from inspiring English sources

Be makes far more sense"), Conn Iggulden (on his former preference for achievement over happiness), Deborah Levy (on moments of light while visiting her terminally ill mother), Helen Dunmore (on NHS provision for the depressed and mentally ill), and more.

The relationship between Brownlee and King was helped by the former's preference for the Liberals over the Conservatives.

The stronger influence of minimum precipitation for Ae. albopictus than for Ae. aegypti (16.1% vs 9.1%, Table 2) may reflect the former species' preference for non-domestic juvenile habitats, which are solely reliant on filling via precipitation.

Some leaders resent what they see as Mr Jiang's preference for former Shanghai-based officials such as Mr Zeng.For all the mini-personality cult that Mr Jiang enjoys, he does not have the charisma and experience needed to impose his will on the party in the way Deng once did.

Both were found to be acceptable to referred women and to their family doctors, although the former expressed a slight preference for interview.

Jayawardene and Sanath Jayasuriya are 7-2 joint favourites (with Ladbrokes and Boyle Sports respectively) to top score for Sri Lanka in the final, with the preference for the former.

Spence, who has the build of a former rugby player and a preference for coral-colored jeans, rocked back and forth on his toes as he introduced the group to the concept of multisensory design and its implications for retail.

Having seen both the original version of Star Wars and the most recent iteration of the Special Edition, it's hard to disagree with the fans' preference for the former.

Our preference for the former kind of language may look as strange to our descendants, and to Butterscotch's, as it would if we applied it to a child.

The Harvard law professor Jack Goldsmith, who worked briefly in the Bush administration's Office of Legal Counsel, has himself been critical of his former colleagues' "unilateralism" and their preference for power over persuasion.

Whatever one thinks of recent attempts to narrow the divide between academic and vocational qualifications, this document at least openly states the widespread preference for the former in "top" universities: "It is extremely important that you are aware that for several university courses … vocational qualifications are not considered to be suitable".