Sentence examples for in the preferential from inspiring English sources

That divisiveness counts against the film in the preferential balloting system, designed to reward the film with the broadest spread of admiration within the Academy.

Yvette Cooper received a boost yesterday when Gordon Brown, the former Prime Minister, announced that he had made her his first choice in the preferential voting system.

Do you feel that the Ivies have gone, shall we say, overboard, in the preferential treatment they give subgroups, to the point where there is nothing "sub" about them at all?

Other early implementers of affirmative-action programs who have analyzed admission exams, grades and drop-out rates of students in the preferential categories have found little difference between the performance of that group and that of the other students.

The as-deposited films were crystallized in the preferential orientation along the (0 1 5) plane.

The geothermal gradient at location of PGW 1 follows geothermal gradient at PGW 26 in the preferential order list.

We now recall the growth algorithm used in the preferential attachment model introduced by Barabási and Albert [23].

Site was not important in impacting decomposition rates, but played an important role in the preferential degradation of C components.

The as-deposited thin films were crystallized in the preferential orientation along the (2 2 0) plane.

Morphology analysis (AFM/TEM) revealed differences in the preferential dispersion states of Tsp- and Oib-POSS molecules.

Anthropogenic disturbance, for example logging, is often a commercial activity and results in the preferential removal of the largest, most valuable stems [62].