Sentence examples for grows in preference to from inspiring English sources

The result of such effects of strigolactones is that the root system grows in preference to the shoot system.

Choose organic apricots, where possible, in preference to conventionally grown apricots.

Initially, the metabolites were generated in situ in MCLs grown from SiHa-NTR puro; this cell line was used in preference to V79-NTR puro, since the latter does not grow uniformly as MCLs.

We conclude that cortical bone is maintained under conditions of vitamin D deficiency in preference to cancellous bone in young growing rats.

The authors supposed that the roots had "chosen" this right-ward direction in preference to the alternative left-ward direction, or to growing downwards (the presumed default orientation).

Emily Dickinson used the dash in preference to any other punctuation.

I have always worn a skirt in preference to trousers.

Fruitful cooperation on regional conflicts, as Syria has demonstrated, requires dealing with the age-old principles of world order, sovereignty and noninterference in internal affairs, and the growing Western preference to use force to protect foreign populations from brutal leaders.

In preference-to-preference procedures, the outcome is a preference relation over the set of alternatives.

Cells were grown in YES to OD600 0.6.

As a result, there will be demands for compliance with congressional investment preferences and corporate governance policies, which will grow in direct proportion to the length of time that the federal investments and guarantees remain outstanding.