Sentence examples for in preference to extending from inspiring English sources

This method was employed in preference to extending the likelihood-based method to cover missingness in the outcome since it was felt less likely that the MAR assumption would hold for these data.

To extend the resolution characteristic of the schemes, an optimization strategy is employed in which formal order of accuracy is sacrificed in preference to enhanced resolution characteristics across the range of wavenumbers realizable on a given mesh.

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

I have always worn a skirt in preference to trousers.

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

[World Business, Section W.] Questions About U.S. Trade Policy A move in Congress to extend trade preferences to Andean nations raises the question of whether America should set tariffs and trade rules globally or country-by-country.

A move in Congress to extend trade preferences to Andean nations, in part to help wean their economies off coca production, could lead to the layoff of thousands of Muslim workers in the tuna industry here, even as American troops help the Philippine army fight Abu Sayyaf Muslim insurgents in this region.

Bolivia has not asked for the preferences to be extended and the United States has not offered to do so.

If we do that, and we find that quadriplegics would not give up even one year of life as a quadriplegic in order to have their disability cured, then the QALY method does not justify giving preference to procedures that extend the lives of people without disabilities over procedures that extend the lives of people with disabilities.

Tics usually start in the face and tend to extend caudally, with a remaining preference for head, neck, shoulders and arms.

We're also calling on the federal government to extend hiring preferences to all full-time national service members.