Folks here in the middle of America pride ourselves on a preference for facts over foolishness, deeds over declarations.
Priestley's preference for "facts" over "hypotheses" in science was consistent with his Dissenting conviction that prejudice and dogma of any sort presented obstacles to individual inquiry and private judgment.
In other scenes on this wide circuit, we seem to be transported to the French of the 18th century, with its love of military affairs and comparative ethnography, its preference for conjecture over fact, its gallantry and sentimentality.
Of course, the widespread preference for sons, and the fact that girls and women are regarded as sources of cheap labour and little more than the sum of their reproductive parts, justifies this human sacrifice.
The presence of common phenotypic characteristics of scriptus and ornatus - the two most basal haplogroups within the Scriptus and Sylvaticus groups (picture panel, Fig. 2), the species' preference for cover and the fact that all juvenile bushbuck are patterned [11], [13], suggests that ancestral bushbuck were also strikingly patterned and adapted to the dappled light of forest habitat.
Employees with a strong preference for independence appreciated the fact that the intervention gave room for participants to determine the course of action.
They are for scholars and, above all, for graduate students, who are likely to share his preference for arcana over basic facts.
In fact, the preference for English over Spanish becomes more lopsided the younger the demographic.
Proof of his preference for the Magic is the fact that he flew to Orlando on Saturday and went house hunting with his wife, Tamia, on Monday.
But there's a guiding principle that ties together Reid's preference for regular order, and the fact that so many found what Paul was doing yesterday compelling to witness, if not agree with.
