Sentence examples for preference points from inspiring English sources

The city awards preference points to Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, Chinese Americans, Japanese Americans, Southeast Asians, Korean Americans, Filipinos, Asian Indians, African Americans, Latinos, Arab Americans, Native Americans, nonminority women and now, possibly, even Persian Americans.

Those with the highest preference points are awarded the vouchers.

In those cases, the schools would be free to forego the competitive preference points.

For example, government agencies can provide preference points on competitive grants to schools that commit to using proven programs.

ESSA names several (mostly small) funding programs that will provide preference points to proposals proposing to use proven programs.

Requests for proposals routinely include competitive preference points for criteria a lot less important than whether the program schools are proposing to use have been proven to work.

We conducted ANOVA with scanning order or partner type as between-subjects factors on individual-specific social preference point.

They determined the stronger half by watching which way the fish turned to avoid a predator: Turning right 80% of the time meant the right eye--and thus the left brain hemisphere--was dominant, whereas showing no turn preference pointed to a nonlateralized brain.

For patients, the preference point for his/her health is a key factor in determining the preference of his/her treatment option.

This approach is useful from a user-preference point of view and tends to promote the use of pattern mining algorithms for non-experts.

Results of intervention research that account for participants' treatment preferences point to the consequences of providing treatments that are responsive to their desire and thus, are relevant to practice.