Mr. Samela gives preference to the men who show up early and often.
The leave program gives preference to soldiers with young children, especially newborns.
This fund gives preference to current or former post-doctoral psychiatry fellows from NYSPI/Columbia.
The Department of State gives preference to the most vulnerable refugees, who have been tortured or persecuted at home.
The government's aggressive affirmative action program, which gives preference to blacks in hiring, is another sore point.
Yet why is a program that gives preference to certain applicants based on skin tone considered an equalizer of opportunity?
Whenever possible, the Music Department gives preference to DCE students to help supplement their income and defray tuition costs.
That risks landing in a 4-2 diamond fit if partner gives preference with only two cards in diamonds.
It prevents the passage of any law that gives preference to or forces belief in any one religion.
In the bidding on federal contracts, the government already gives preference to disadvantaged areas across America; no one doubts that New York is one of those areas today.
You open one diamond in the second position, partner responds one heart, you rebid three clubs, and he gives preference with three diamonds.
