Sentence examples for preferences are given from inspiring English sources

Clearly critics on newspapers such as the Guardian have some taste-making effect: our preferences are given legitimacy, status even, by being regularly expressed here.

No particular preferences are given to any version of genetic algorithms, but rather lessons learnt up-to-date are effectively combined to show the power of the genetic algorithm in effective search for the desired solution over a broad class of optimization problems discussed herein.

The optimal ceded loss functions among multiple reinsurers are derived explicitly under the additional assumptions that the insurer's preferences are given by an inverse-S shaped distortion risk measure and that the reinsurers' premium principles are some functions of the Conditional Value-at-Risk.

In the USA, 'surrogate preferences' are given open-ended primacy in medical decision making.

The clades for which diversification rates have been compared, and their principal nesting types and habitat preferences, are given in Table 1.

As we incorporate the preferences of all stakeholders and as these preferences are given by the stakeholders themselves, we do not expect that the resulting changes are subject to psychological bias as mentioned in other papers (see e.g. [ 6, 15]).

A lottery was conducted, and preferences were given to applicants living in the district covered by Community Board 11, police officers, firefighters and people with disabilities.

"Preference is given to families".

Preference was given to parents of current or past public school students.

After that, preference was given to city employees, school district workers, residents of New Rochelle and other county residents.

Preference was given to deaf and hard-of-hearing applicants, who occupy 69 of the complex's 75 units.