But city officials note that the homeless, people displaced from their homes and victims of domestic violence get preference for the vouchers.
The Greens say it gives them a genuine chance to win the seat after preferences are distributed, because they're getting preferences from Labor, the Australian Equality party, the Animal Justice party and Derryn Hinch's Justice party.
That would often mean favouring not just the skilled (who already get preference everywhere) but those from culturally similar backgrounds.
Mr. Ward said the union agreement calls for workers from closed Marriott properties to get preference in hiring at other Marriott properties.
Users compete with each other to snag their winnings from a community pot; big winners get preference.
Ms. Halperin's recollections focus on a hypothetical question from Mr. DePaola that seemed to suggest that, when space was scarce, advertisers might get preference.
They also get preference in admission to the police force.
More senior students get preference so that they can graduate.
That is the situation in many Indian states, where leaders have sprung from castes that continue to get preferences.
It's the size factor — and that iOS still tends to get first preference from newly launched startups — that largely ruled out Android for me.
