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Can an employer who will only hire white employees because he or she prefers to work with them, or a landlord who will only rent to white tenants because he or she prefers to live with them, use "preference" as a loophole to sidestep charges of racism?
Less formally, we may understand preference as a relation "at least as preferred as" over the relevant domain.
A lifetime member of the Italian Senate, Mr. Agnelli refused to be drawn out about his preference as a voter.
"Our preference as a business is, of course, that the UK stays within Europe – it makes the most sense for jobs, trade and costs," he added.
Aside from a goggling glance at things to come, in "Sleeper" (1973), Allen's preference, as a time traveller, has been for an express ticket to the past.
His preference as a planner -- "if money is not the issue" -- would be to depress West Street between Liberty and Vesey Streets, linking the trade center site almost seamlessly with Battery Park City.
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For Ms. Fey the focus on maternity seems to be a personal preference as much as a bow to the spirit of the age.
Warner wouldn't be drawn on his preference as an opening partner in Brisbane following the retirement of Chris Rogers.
Marble artifacts from Franchthi Cave in Greece point to its preference as an ornamental stone as far back as the Neolithic.
Therefore, we tested the animals' sweet preference as an indication of the effectiveness of the naloxone treatment.
Using the hospitals' preference as an instrumental variable, we computed differences in risk of postoperative pneumonia between the proton pump inhibitor and H2 receptor antagonist groups.
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