Sentence examples for seeming preference for from inspiring English sources

PRIZE FIGHTERS I: Eugenides's vest is hardly the first to complain about the National Book Awards' seeming preference for obscure novels over well-reviewed blockbusters (though to be fair, this year's list of finalists does include one bona fide best seller, "The Tiger's Wife," by Téa Obreht).

Beset with his own problems involving women, Mauricio is dumbfounded at his friend's seeming preference for fatties.

He went so far as to imitate Mr. Daley's speech patterns, with a distinctive grammar and syntax and a seeming preference for commas over periods in his orations.

Professor Wedgwood said the government's seeming preference for military detention over criminal trials in more recent cases demonstrated how its thinking was changing.

But, as donations by the region's corporate PACs show, this seeming preference for the Democrats isn't true of the sector as a whole.

Maureen Michaels, chairwoman of the Long Island Rail Road Commuter Council, offered a different explanation for her constituency's seeming preference for harder liquor: a tougher commute.

It seems the preference for physically impressive male leaders runs strong; this makes me think of campaign-time jokes about John McCain's age and war injury, Bill Clinton's paunch and Mike Dukakis's stature.

Given that comfort with a partner is so vital in these conversations, it seems that our preference for more partners and less sex may be harming our sex lives.

Promiscuous ARTs often modify their target molecules at more than one site, but seem to show preference for certain sites (Table  1).

Tensions erupted last month when Dolce and Gabbana allegedly banned locals from taking photographs outside its Hong Kong flagship store, seeming to show a preference for wealthy mainland shoppers.

In control conditions, when the entire arena is in darkness there is no significant difference in behaviour between MO and WT mice, both seeming to retain a preference for the FH.