Sentence examples for one should prefer from inspiring English sources

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It follows, then, that if one believes that (a) people in the real world exhibit variation in effort, ability, moral deservingness and so on, and (b) a fair system takes these considerations into account, then a preference for fairness will dictate that one should prefer unequal outcomes in actual societies.

The difference principle in effect says that one should prefer a penny more for the worst off when that group has one member to the alternative of bringing about gains of any magnitude however large for any number of better than worst off persons however huge.

"It is not entirely evident that one should prefer the measurements of an undergraduate to those of professional paleontologist," he wrote in 2004.

Since this is absurd, one should prefer (1) over (2).

For example, early typical feminist controversies in moral theory have concerned whether one should favor an ethics of justice over an ethics of care or a virtue ethics, or whether one should prefer Kant over Hume or Aristotle as a starting point for moral thinking (see, for example, Herman 1993, Baier 1994, Held 1993, Homiak 1993, Larrabee 1993).

If not, one should prefer the FE-estimates.

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Thus, if a case may be decided on multiple grounds, judges should prefer one that allows them to avoid a constitutional issue.

So all current outliers are treated equally, as there is no basis on which one should be preferred over the other.

As for why we should prefer one myth to another, the answer, I think, is that we need to share the myths of parents and grandparents, because if we don't know how they understood the world, we can never learn from their experience; and the whole of culture and of civilisation, depends on learning from mistakes we don't have to make ourselves.

About the same time with yourself, Professor Wheatstone, of London, and Dr. Steinheil, of Germany, proposed plans of the electro magnetic telegraph, but these differ as much from yours as the nature of the common principle would well permit; and unless some essential improvements have lately been made in these European plans, I should prefer the one invented by yourself.

"For my part," intoned one of his fashion connoisseurs, "I should prefer [courtiers' dress] not to be extreme in any way, as the French are sometimes in being over-ample, and the Germans in being overscanty".

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