Sentence examples for making preferential from inspiring English sources

The ranchers argue that such tactics violate the 1921 Packers and Stockyards Act, which prohibits packers from employing any "unfair, unjustly discriminatory, or deceptive practice or device" or from making preferential agreements.

The House Financial Services Committee accused Goldman, Credit Suisse First Boston and Salomon Smith Barney, part of Citigroup, of making preferential allocations of shares in sought-after initial public offerings (IPOs) to their favoured clients, so that the latter could make a quick profit by selling the shares on.

Moreover, artists seem to produce aesthetically pleasing images by making preferential use of specific statistical properties that can be extracted by lower-level perceptual mechanisms, similar to object categorization in natural scenes by gist perception [34].

The elderly with severe mental illness are less likely to visit the psychiatric emergency room than their younger cohorts, making preferential use of mobile psychiatric emergency teams or case-management [ 13- 15].

Andrew Entwistle, who represents the Florida State pension fund, said creditors and the bankruptcy trustee would be looking into whether Enron had made preferential payments to certain banks and other companies.

Great Britain, the principal destination for exports, abandoned free trade practices and made preferential agreements with the ex-colonies during the Imperial Economic Conference celebrated in Ottawa in 1932 to promote trade within the limits of the empire.

The self-help groups were the structural basis of community support and members of the group took an increasingly active role in making referrals to the programme, supported and gave practical assistance to families, and made preferential loans to people recovering from their illness to improve their livelihoods.

The contact profiles for individual elements at P14 (Fig. 2B) and P28 (Fig. 2C) were however similar to those observed in WT mice (Fig. 1C and 1D); all immunoreactive dendritic protrusions and dendrites made preferential contacts with dendritic protrusions and axon terminals at both ages and this effect was more pronounced for dendrites than dendritic protrusions.

As select U.S. multinational corporations push for a tax holiday on a trillion dollars parked overseas, their own recent financial reports undermine the arguments they are making for preferential treatment on Capitol Hill.

HDFC Bank is also likely to make a preferential offer to its promoter, HDFC, to allow it to maintain its shareholding in the merged entity.

This can be illustrated in a hypothetical situation in which countries (say, France and Germany) are permitted to get together to make whatever preferential agreements they wish.