Sentence examples for standing preference from inspiring English sources

Third, public preferences for using military are contingent upon context though many Americans adopt a standing preference (or posture) in favor of the use of military force.

So much for resting up in the weeks before major championships – a long-standing preference that might now be abandoned.

However, it is Ings' long-standing preference to join Liverpool where he has been a long-term target for manager Brendan Rodgers.

Yesterday in a plenary session, Nordhaus repeated his long-standing preference for a carbon tax, which sets a price for carbon emissions, not an emissions goal.

Jacob has a long-standing preference for Internet portals and for years has valiantly owned Yahoo, which he considered a kind of value version of the larger and faster-growing Google.

Though it has been criticised over the years for ignoring films about contemporary racial injustice – most notably by choosing to honour Driving Miss Daisy with Best Picture in 1989 while not nominating Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing for the top prize – that might speak to the Oscar voting body's long-standing preference for safe entertainment over provocation.

Despite a long-standing preference for autarky, China briefly opened up under the Song and Mongol Yuan dynasties.

China has an enormous imbalance in the sex-ratio of its population, because of a long-standing preference for boys that is exacerbated by the birth-limitation policies.

In the absence of good evidence for the benefits of early surgery or of the harm of deferring surgery, Heino Meyer-Bahlburg, a proponent of the current standard of care, claims that evidence of opinions gathered from affected individuals themselves bolsters physicians' long-standing preference for early surgery.

Solicitor General Seth P. Waxman, arguing for the Clinton administration in support of Miranda, tailored his argument to the court's inherent institutional preference for standing by its precedents.

Another was Tallon's preference in standing back to medium pacers.