Sentence examples for preferred abilities from inspiring English sources

People may have selected preferred abilities in the dog, but dogs too may have fostered their favorite qualities in people -- not of course deliberately but simply by giving people who used dogs a better chance of surviving than people who did not.

Good teaching experience, either in independent or public schools (or as a TA or graduate assistant if in grad school); prefer undergraduate and/or advanced degree in one's field (master's can be in education); mastery of subject; prefer ability to teach in one other science.

Those who lived a long way from the clinic liked the convenience and others simply preferred the ability to perform the test in the comfort of their own homes.

I submitted my résumé and personal statements, in which I indicated my language abilities, preferred locations, and preferred job duration.

In his early weeks, Moyes preferred Ashley Young and Antonio Valencia, their abilities more akin to those favoured in his Everton sides.

From the 1960s onwards both central government and local authorities began to prefer all-ability comprehensive schools, as a way of providing a better education to the 75% of children forced into inadequate secondary moderns.

While video functionality is great, I'd actually much prefer the ability to share applications (browser, powerpoint, excel, etc.) through Skype, making it significantly more useful for business calls.

Viewers increasingly prefer the ability to tune into shows when they want, on demand, rather than being beholden to a network schedule.

Viewers increasingly prefer the ability to tune into shows when they want, on demand, rather than being beholden to a network schedule for events such as "Idol's" results shows.

While I love the overwhelming sense of well-being feeling that rock gives you, the bigger addicts prefer the ability it gives you to talk incessantly about yourself—like personal conspiracy theories on Shrek, or how freeform dance classes freed your mind from the trauma of teenage dyslexia and made you realise you were a person with a soul and whateveritis.

No, women like myself just prefer the ability to walk up a block on a summer day in a sundress, showing skin not to attract attention but because it's hot out and we're about to stand on a crowded subway platform with four hundred other people, without feeling like a piece of meat.