Sentence examples for preference for maintaining from inspiring English sources

Any preference for maintaining the status quo was natural.

In other, more idiosyncratic ways, Scalia has shown his preference for maintaining the status quo.

For many government authorities, it has been convenient to blame disasters on nature, hence their preference for maintaining the term "natural disasters".

Our analyses revealed a mismatched motif in the basal stem region, a preference for maintaining or improving base pairing throughout the remainder of the stem, and a narrow stem-length preference of 35 ± 1 base pairs.

The preference for maintaining current borders also traps peoples where they may not want to be.

Grondahl cited Corning's preference for maintaining the status quo as a factor that held back potential progress during his tenure.

The direction of group preferences for maintaining of the tripedal stance resembled those for reaching tasks.

But the striking stability of individual preferences for organizing and limiting social interactions suggests to him that each person has their own distinct preference, or perhaps capacity, for maintaining those bonds.

Also allowed are the use of persistent identifiers for maintaining user preferences or protecting against fraud.

One point on which there is no disagreement, though, is that pastoralist land uses are largely compatible with wildlife, whereas agriculture is not, and the preferences amongst local pastoralist communities for maintaining rangelands as common property has been and remains critical to the integrity of East African savannah ecosystems.

Even very small heritabilities of fitness can be extremely important for maintaining female preferences for good genes on an evolutionary time scale.