Instead they spoke of preferences for a particular approach to sound, balance, ensemble size, tempo and all the other qualities by which mainstream performances are measured.
In those cases, one can only speak of preferences reconstructed from choice, without claiming that these agents actually have preferences at all.
When we speak of time preferences and public policy, we must distinguish between individual time preferences and social time preferences.
Other times, he spoke of a preference to play for a defensive-minded team.
Reagan spoke of his preference for protecting lives rather than avenging them, and of the possibility of rendering nuclear weapons "impotent and obsolete," but the vision could not be turned into reality.
Administration officials spoke of a "preference" to use the military to conduct lethal operations, but said that Mr. Obama's hands would not be tied and that he reserved the right to use the C.I.A. for covert drone strikes in far-off countries.
Joplin wanted to be considered as a serious artist, and spoke of his preference for "classical music".
We didn't anticipate that". Pollack spoke of his preference for working with big stars in an interview with the New York Times in 1982.
On one hand this study has spoken for preference of a well-designed comprehensive lecture rather than a non-coherent symposia while on the other hand it has stressed the need of adoption of specific topics (more so with increasing age of the receptor population).
And speaking of content, when a device knows where your eye is naturally shifting, it also has a much better idea of your content preferences.
Insofar as this temporal factor of evaluations can be separated from time-independent factors of evaluations, one speaks of pure time preferences.
