A historically rooted preference for personal interactions limits the significance of organizations, which helps to explain why nongovernmental organizations have played only muted roles in the Arab uprisings.
"You don't want a shootout on an airplane, and historically, our preference has always been to stop the terrorists before they get on the aircraft," Mr. O'Connor said.
Imperial preference, historically, a commercial arrangement in which preferential rates (i.e., rates below the general level of an established tariff) were granted to one another by constituent units of an empire.
While son preference has historically been greatest in North India, there is emerging evidence of increased son preference accompanying the transition to low fertility in South India (Basu 1999; Diamond-Smith, Luke, and McGarvey 2008).
Conservatism is a preference for the historically inherited rather than the abstract and ideal.
Doing so will disrupt schedules around the world, but when Blatter states a preference, that has historically meant only one outcome is possible.
However much the banking business rolled headlong into risky mortgage practices, on the surface the industry has historically been marked by a preference for low-key behavior and conservative dress.
Doing the right thing---making recompense---Georgetown, one of America's elite universities, recently announced it will take a series of historically unprecedented steps, including granting preference in admission to the descendants of those 272 slaves who were sold, as well as to the descendants of those slaves who remained indentured to Georgetown and labored to its benefit.
Protect vulnerable producers from trade shocks: The problems we see in highly protected markets like bananas, sugar and rum – where historically some developed countries granted preferences to some developing countries while excluding others – are apparent now these markets are opening up.
This leads to the question of why A. sinensis historically breed in the Yangtze River in preference to the many Pacific west coast rivers (Figure 4).
