Sentence examples for preference to eliminate from inspiring English sources

Attempts have also been made in the theory of revealed preference to eliminate all reference to subjective preference or to define preference in terms of choices (Samuelson 1947, Houtthaker 1950, Little 1957, Sen 1971, 1973, Hausman 2011, chapter 3).

The relatively high expression of SmAQP at the male dorsal surface may be the result of a preference to eliminate this toxic glycolytic product into the blood stream of the host via this surface and not predominantly via the ventral surface into the gynaecophoric canal a space often occupied by the male's female partner.

For example, questionnaires were interviewer-administered in Spanish or English based on patient preference to eliminate potential language or literacy barriers.

Drains are expensive, cumbersome and occlusive, time-consuming to position and remove, and may be annoying for patients, so the preference to eliminate them is a reasonable one.

They will instead refuse to trade or adjust their preferences to eliminate the intransitivity (but see Schick 1986).

Interviews were conducted in Spanish or English (based on patient preference) in order to eliminate potential language barriers.

Using these stated preferences allows us to eliminate selection biases in an analysis to estimate treatment effects.

Historically, this approach developed out of the pursuit of behaviouristic foundations for economic theories i.e. the attempt to eliminate the preference framework altogether.

Last: Bob says court rulings previously concluded that it violates the 14th Amendment to eliminate some preferences, like affirmative action, while keeping others intact like athletic scholarships and alumni legacies...not to mention the irony of those opposed to programs for racial minorities citing the great Civil War Amendment designed to help African Americans.

Still, it is instructive to recall the most analogous initiative in recent years: the 1985-1986 proposal to eliminate many tax preferences and lower the rates.

The real losers from this week's decisions have been those conservatives who had hoped that Mr Bush would persuade the court to eliminate all racial preferences, not only in university admissions, but in every area of American life.Mr Bush's own proposal reeked of political compromise.