Also, the Americans' preference for airstrikes instead of riskier ground operations has cut off a way of checking the accuracy of the intelligence.
Also, the Americans' preference for airstrikes instead of riskier ground operations has made it harder to discover when intelligence is wrong. 1 Talks With India and Pakistan The British foreign secretary, Jack Straw, went to Pakistan and India hoping to contain a recent rise in tension over the disputed region of Kashmir, and he said afterward that he was "happy" with the discussions so far.
(A preference for urine instead of water as the incorporation agent might have had some basis in fact because urine is rich in nitrates; so might the view that a beer drinker's urine was preferable to that of an abstemious person and a wine drinker's urine best of all).
With the ICU team confronted with new machinery and new treatment protocols (for instance, automated citrate anticoagulation, preference for HDF instead of HD), it became obvious that this would introduce an unacceptable bias to the trial.
Traditional preferences for graves, instead of smaller areas for urns carrying ashes, has resulted in soaring prices, it said.
Her aggressive serve-and-volley game and her preference for wearing shorts instead of a skirt shocked the tennis world.
Still, the American preference for self-reliance, instead of more socialized financial protections, remains strong, even among those who lost big.
OR perhaps it goes further than a few conversational tics and a preference for Diet Coke instead of 10 bottles of lager and a couple of gin and tonics.
Armando Rayo, a nonprofit consultant who covers the local food scene for the Web site Taco Journalism, doesn't see the presence of Jimmy Dean — or a preference for flour tortillas instead of the corn tortillas that predominate in much of Mexico — as culturally problematic.
Males who live alone (often widowers) did not display a preference for independence, but instead showed a strong aversion to social isolation, as did older people (of either sex) who lived with a spouse.
Distance and transportation costs from their homes to health centres impede some rural women from delivering their babies in health facilities, and a cultural preference for home delivery instead of institutional delivery prevails in many rural households.
