Sentence examples for preference instead of from inspiring English sources

It uses an evaluation function to represent a user's preference instead of the usual keyword-based profile.

Maine's House races use ranked-choice voting, meaning voters can list multiple candidates in order of preference instead of choosing a single one.

It's one of the few cities already using instant-runoff voting, a system that lets voters rank candidates in order of preference instead of choosing just one.

A few pages later she'll roast David Hume for saying moral choices are dictated by personal preference instead of biblical commands.

Under the alternative system, ballots would list all candidates, and voters would mark their order of preference, instead of choosing only one.

Indeed, when Mr. Lieberman said in 1995 that he could no longer defend policies that were "based on group preference instead of individual merit," Mr. Bond wrote a scathing rebuke for the op-ed page of The Hartford Courant.

That finding supports the notion that CEOs make the firm behave according to their personal preferences, instead of firms choosing managers whose preferences match those of the firms.

Meanwhile, the party's white, working-class base — especially the Roman Catholics — fled when it became apparent that liberalism now meant racial preferences instead of racial equality.

That's quite a separation from the Gallup pole, which was a study of preferences instead of purchases and found spirits preference was 19% and wine preference, 34%.

When behaving as citizens, respondents may reveal social preferences instead of personal preferences due to a "warm glow" effect (Kling et al. 2012).

However, in spite of this, we think that any ranking of this type should be based as much as possible on revealed preferences instead of the researchers' ad hoc postulates.