Sentence examples for sorts of preference from inspiring English sources

Imperial preference could also include other sorts of preference, such as favourable consideration in the allocation of public contracts, indirect subsidies to shipping, and preferential access to the capital market.

To look more closely at the effects of hue contrast, Fig.  12b plots the residual figure preferences after removing the variance due to other sorts of preference: namely, preference for the figural color when viewed against a neutral gray background and preferences for pairs containing the relevant color as figure.

People, for example, choose their spouses according to all sorts of preferences concerning looks, personality, and the like.

Gorr attempts to constrain what sorts of preferences might count for purposes of setting the baseline; for instance, he requires that Q's preferences range over P's actual possible acts, and not over P's omissions (otherwise, the shopkeeper's omitting to give away goods for free would count as a threat to deprive someone of such goods).

Yet that sort of preference may be much harder for top schools to organise.

A key argument for the Alternative Vote system, for example, is that it enhances legitimacy by ensuring that at least half those voting in a constituency will have expressed some sort of preference for the successful candidate.

One way of avoiding such fallacies was to force social scientists to look always at interactions from the participant's perspective, to see what sort of preference structure governed his or her decisions.

I realize you may or may not consider this sort of preference as being judgmental, for I once considered it judgmental.

A lot of the work has to do with raising this question: is simply choosing or exerting some sort of preference a form of production or making?" --Jonah Wolf.

Abercrombie said last week he would give "every weight" to Inouye's request but that he did not want to preclude the work of the party's state central committee by indicating any sort of preference.

The test trials revealed that even when the difference between the long and short panels was considerable, the active training with the hippocampal group failed to result in any sort of preference for one wall over the other.