Miliband said the "priority investors" were given preferential access on the basis that they would be long-term investors in Royal Mail.
Nevertheless, a surprising amount of factual information can be coordinated on the basis of preferential reactions of hard acids with hard bases and soft acids with soft bases.
Their petitions, which began circulating in January, would put to the voters in November a proposed state constitutional amendment prohibiting "preferential treatment" on the basis of "race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin".
"Diversity is all too frequently a code word," he said, "for preferential treatment on the basis of race, ethnicity or sex, or lower standards, or being opposed to assimilation".
The vote amended the State Constitution to ban discrimination or preferential treatment on "the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education or public contracting".
Ward Connerly, a crusader against affirmative action, said he believed that Mr. Obama's remarks would buoy support for his ballot initiatives in Arizona, Colorado and Nebraska in November that would ban preferential treatment on the basis of race, ethnicity and sex in government hiring and public education.
209 – the 1996 constitutional amendment approved by California voters that outlaws "preferential treatment" on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin in public employment, education or contracting – Brown said the courts, not the Legislature, should decide if changes can be made.
Examples include Malays in Malaysia, who earn less and learn less than their Chinese compatriots, and the Sinhalese in Sri Lanka, who have long lagged behind the Tamils.Mr Sowell's insight is that regardless of the supposed moral basis for preferential policies, the results are often remarkably similar.
A deficit of these CSL interfaces, relative to the determined probability of occurrence during random grain growth, was experimentally determined for interfaces bounding Goss grains following secondary recrystallization treatments; this deficit was rationalized on the basis of preferential replacement by general (or higher Σ) interfaces due to enhanced mobility of these low Σ CSL grain boundaries.
