Sentence examples for preferential status from inspiring English sources

The preferential status enjoyed by "Amtrak trains limit[s] the host railroad's ability to move freight.

Reasoning by circumscription thus turns on giving minimal models a preferential status.

And should the company go under, you'll still recoup more of your assets than equity investors because bondholders enjoy preferential status under bankruptcy laws.

– UCI publishes report from Independent Commission for Reform in Cycling, which asserts that Armstrong "benefited from a preferential status afforded by the UCI leadership".

In addition, a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers is resuscitating a bill to overhaul the way the prison manufacturing company does business, proposing to eliminate its preferential status.

But Craig Steven Wilder and Alfred L. Brophy, two historians who have studied universities and slavery, said they knew of none that had offered preferential status in admissions to the descendants of slaves.

This presupposes, however, that WTO members that are not ACP-EU countries are also allowed to adhere – they would have the choice between adhering and enjoying preferential trade status, or not adhering and not enjoying the preferential trade status.

However, Dr. Tricarico points out that farmers have traditionally benefited from preferential tax status.

In 1982, the US Congress passed the Amerasian immigration act, giving preferential immigration status to Amerasian children born during the Vietnam war in Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos.

The settlements are maintained through "a system of total segregation" between the settlers, who enjoy a preferential legal status, and the rest of the population, the report concludes.

Spain adopted the so-called "Beckham law" in 2005 (named after Britain's David Beckham who had joined Real Madrid), which gave preferential tax status to foreigners living in Spain.