The phrase "preference against" is correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used to express a negative opinion or preference for something. For example, "I have a strong preference against going to the beach on such a hot day."
Continuing Delaware's preference against holding directors personally liable, Chancellor Strine dismissed the special committee directors from the case.
This theory says if women were reproducing all along, and there were no preference against older women, women would be reproducing, like men are, for their whole lives".
Many proponents of the network neutrality principle, which would require I.S.P.'s to treat all Internet packets equally, have expressed a preference against any sort of filtering and urged Comcast and its rivals to instead invest in adding bandwidth.
They tend to have a preference against government aggression in any form.
This preference against acetophenone derivatives and for phenylacetone (14) is not novel, since the well-known PAMO from T. fusca showed the same behavior (Fraaije et al. 2005).
The recombinant enzyme, functionally expressed in Escherichia coli, showed a marked amidolytic preference against the synthetic aminopeptidase substrate l-leucine-7-amino-4-methylcoumarin (Leu-AMC) and was also active against Cys-AMC and Met-AMC.
Labor preferences against their own ultimate legislative interests, while engaging in electorally unpalatable behaviour.
This is unsurprising, since voting behavior in the Senate is fundamentally about senators seeking to balance their policy preferences against the views of their constituents.
Some have argued that Hanson would have been stopped by other parties directing preferences against her, and that the Senate reforms makes it impossible for this to be achieved.
In this episode, one bride-to-be weighs her preferences against her family's wishes, and another woman has a poignant moment when she selects a dress with her father, who is terminally ill.
The Newspoll figures are based on 2013 preferences that Moorhead says "will be entirely unrepresentative – but who knows what they'll be?" Complicating matters are unexpected turns like Pauline Hanson's One Nation preferencing against the Coalition and an expected "big third party vote" in regional Queensland where disillusion about rising unemployment is biting.
