Sentence examples for given strong preference from inspiring English sources

The state has given strong preference to married couples, Nathalie Parent, the president of Enfance & Familles d'Adoption (E.F.A ., an N.G.O. that helps adopting families, explained.

The use of a grape-based drink other than wine for the Lord's Supper took a strong hold in many churches, including American Protestantism, though some churches had detractors who thought wine was to be given strong preference in the rite.

Tonight, it appeared that language was evolving that would give strong preference under the treaty to less controversial nonpolluting options like wind turbines, but would not explicitly banish nuclear plants.

Lawyers and investors had long assumed that WorldCom would eventually produce a plan that the bankruptcy court could endorse, given the strong preference in the bankruptcy law for keeping businesses alive as going concerns if at all possible.

Given the strong preference for sons, this does not reduce the allocation of resources to boys, but instead leads to boys occupying more intrahousehold resources.

Even so, slum dwellers in some cases may choose to stay in the slums given their strong preference for the location or because of social and economic bonds.

Counts of northern Yellowstone elk (Cervus elaphus) decreased more (50%) than predicted (5 30%), and will likely continue to decrease given the strong preference of wolves for elk and continued high kill rates despite this substantial reduction in elk abundance.

An alternative explanation for the persistence of the sub-genomic fragment could be that MGME1 itself participates in the removal of linear mtDNA molecules, although given the strong preference of MGME1 towards ssDNA in vitro this appears less probable.

Now that I'm older, I would say that I'm always going to give a strong preference to women who have a similar habits, socialization, education, intelligence as well as emotional intelligence as myself.

Savage's representation theorem gives strong results: starting with a preference ordering alone, we can find a single probability function, and a narrow class of utility functions, which represent that preference ordering.

All three actors give strong, lively performances.