In general, natural and artificial selection have given a preference to dehydration avoidance over dehydration tolerance as the major strategy for plants to cope with drought stress (Blum, 2005).
"The amendments would in effect give a preference to European companies over American companies, even though American companies have demonstrated the same commitment to improving worker safety in Bangladesh," the letter stated.
Previously, a certified teacher was always given preference over a nonteacher when competing for a coaching job.
Mary Macleod, who worked for the Queen before becoming a Conservative MP, is calling for a new law to scrap rules which state younger brothers are given automatic preference over older sisters.
Taking an example, firstly, a simple priority queue makes sure that high-priority packets are given unqualified preference over low-priority packets as proposed in the flexible quality of service (QoS) model for MANETs[10].
Look at how these black kids don't pull up their pants, and if they manage to graduate, they're given undeserved preference over more qualified white people through affirmative action.
Should "an appropriate decision" be given preference over an "officially correct" judgment?
Should a blastocyst smaller than the point of a pin be given preference over the rights of women and the hopes of cure for millions of suffering Americans?
It also agreed to give a hiring preference to Bronx residents, devote over 50,000-square-feet in the armory for community use, provide opportunities for minority and women-owned businesses and give free ice time to schools in poor neighborhoods.
In our analysis, the empirical construction of subscales of items from the pool of the 21-item BDI was given preference over a rational approach based on the individual items' face validity, in order to avoid "inductive bias" caused by the analysts' perceptions of the cognitive field.
