The peaks of these functions correspond to inflections in the rank-ordered age score predictions for each age group, indicating that morphologies occupied preferred states rather than being equally distributed within an age class.
Alerted via the papal nuncio in Berne to the "catastrophic situation of the Jews" in Nazi occupied Europe, Pacelli preferred silence to condemnation.
When he jokes that he lacks the fibre to go on protests or join the Occupy movement, preferring to mutter revolutionary slogans at house parties instead, the prickly, unclubbable self-portrait is convincing.
Neighbors in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, Mr. Deas and Mr. Wedes decided early on not to base the camp's curriculum too heavily on Occupy materials, preferring to let the ethos of the movement come out naturally in casual interactions with their campers.
Larger Pb2+ cations prefer to occupy the M 2) sites and smaller Ca2+ cations prefer to occupy the M 1) sites in the apatite structure.
Future research is required to determine the ecological consequences and its significance in the field, especially with respect to the relative choices of butterflyfishes between generally preferred but occupied versus less preferred but unoccupied coral species.
The entrants preferred to occupy the higher pedestal of art than funfair attraction.
Mr. Hughes, cradling a notebook, said he preferred to occupy himself by drawing sketches of fellow passengers while aboard a plodding train.
Obviously, he would have preferred to occupy this position while facing off against a fringe candidate like Bachmann, rather than the much more potent Perry.
