Sentence examples for overt preference from inspiring English sources
A few noted that staff injuries were an "in-house" problem and expressed an overt preference for preventing illness in patients over staff.
John McGinnis, a law professor at Northwestern University, who generally opposes race-conscious admissions programs, said that the approach the court endorsed was a triumph for proponents of affirmative action, given the political unpopularity of overt preferences.
Prior work has documented overt preferences for helping over hindering agents, measured by both looking times and preferential reaching (Hamlin et al., 2007, 2010) at the same age.
The findings revealed complex negotiations between family and patients about moving into a nursing home (often dictated by need rather than preference); the use of the patient's personal historical identity and previous wishes to guide decision-making in the absence of overt preferences; and difficulties for the family in balancing the patient and their own wishes.
From our knowledge of the treating surgeons in our unit, we believe that the surgeons expressed no overt treatment preference, nonetheless, the participating patients made it clear that the surgeons' views had profound effects on their decision-making.
A negative relationship was found between the degree of preference for overt questions and the percent of overt questions answered correctly, and between the total time taken to complete the program and the percent of overt questions answered correctly.
This study investigated student preference for overt vs. covert responding in a web-based tutorial using a within-subject design.
Jim Brown, the seemingly least sensitive of the group, surprises with his preference of overt versus covert racism.
But the selection process is lengthy and quirky, and while there's no overt "don't be dead" requirement, it's possible to infer a preference for a winner who can turn up to be photographed with civic dignitaries.
