Sentence examples for kind of preferential from inspiring English sources

"This was viewed by the smaller countries as a kind of preferential exemption," Mr. Jouyet said.

Litigants paying over the odds for their chance to litigate in the UK will be expecting some kind of preferential treatment.

Exelon wants Pennsylvania to give nuclear power the kind of preferential treatment given to energy sources such as wind and solar.

According to Seb Klier, a campaign manager with Generation Rent, this kind of preferential treatment for an older, economically privileged demographic is symptomatic of London's housing mistakes.

But other groups continue to oppose the destruction of the Planetarium and believe the museum has received a kind of preferential treatment for which private owners would not even hope.

A founder of the company where the trades were made, Bill Hambrecht, said yesterday that "to get that kind of preferential allocation, you have to be doing something for the underwriter," as the securities firm handling the initial stock sale is known.

A referendum on introducing a form of preferential voting to Britain was defeated in 2011.

We can have contagion-like feelings of sympathy when we see other beings suffering, and that's a good thing — but that is a long way from the kinds of active preferential devotions that we marshal for members of our respective tribes.

The evidence gathered on shallow water areas covered by fine-grained sediments (seafloor type A) imply that these regions might be affected by some kind of specific local circulation pattern, generating preferential conditions for a good preservation of the fine-grained deposits in specific, slightly lowered areas.

The Liberals who clearly do not see any fundamental, principled problem with a single member plurality voting system will latch on to its more milquetoast recommendations (a mandatory voting law, some kind of online voting system, or maybe preferential ballots) and run with that as its major contribution to reform.

Sociometry has come to have several meanings; it is most commonly applied to the quantitative treatment of preferential interpersonal relations, but it is also used to mean the quantitative treatment of all kinds of interpersonal relations.