Sentence examples similar to preference for point from inspiring English sources

By renewing Mr. Williams's contract, Fox News showed its preference for point-of-view — rather than the view-from-nowhere — polemics.

Another is that he has a barrister's preference for quick point-scoring, where slowly building up credibility would be wiser.

Ty1 to Ty4 show a preference for insertion points located near genes transcribed by RNA polymerase III [ 28, 51].

Recent experiments further revealed the ability of Arp2/3 to sense filament curvature which seems to induce a preference for branches pointing forwards [ 198].

Results revealed (1) significant but moderate correlations between hand-preference scores for pointing gestures and bimanual manipulation, and (2) no significant difference between communicative gestures and manipulative actions in the mean strength of hand preference.

"Weaker consumer liquidity is also being displayed in the consumer's preference for opening price point" -- the lowest-price national brand -- "and private-label merchandise," she wrote.

The preference for cut-off point of 10 mm in TST results may have caused a slight overestimation of HCW with LTBI.

At the committee's February meeting, a few members had "expressed a preference" for a half-point increase but settled for the quarter-point favored by the majority, who saw "little risk in a gradual approach to policy tightening and considerable advantage to preserving the possibility of calibrating those actions to the emerging situation," the minutes of the Feb. 1-2 meeting said.

That implies that, barring a surge in inflation or a sharp drop in the unemployment rate, Mr. Greenspan is likely to stick to his preference for incremental quarter-point rate increases rather than grabbing the attention of the markets through half-point increases.

If attentional shifts to a particular anchor point are associated with specific interpretations of spatial relations, then during the orthogonal task participants should show stronger preferences for anchor points defined by the task-relevant rather than the task-irrelevant single-dimension task.

Even though there was no dissent on the February increase, the minutes said that before the vote, a few unidentified members expressed a preference for a half-point increase "in order to provide greater assurance against a buildup of inflationary expectations and inflation over coming months".