Sentence examples for system of preference from inspiring English sources

A third program, the Generalized System of Preference, also has expired, but for parochial reasons, not partisan ones.

Muir was handed the state's sixth upper house seat thanks to a complex system of preference flows, while the Greens' Janet Rice also picked up a seat.

All three programs — Trade Adjustment Assistance, the Andean preferences and the Generalized System of Preference — could well be renewed if the Colombia and Panama deals move forward.

The SNP, and Liberal Democrats support proportional representation, while Labour has in the past supported changing to a system of preference voting.

Britain is considered essential to resolving the longstanding banana dispute because the European Union, which set trade policy for its member states, effectively inherited the British system of preference for goods produced in its former colonies.

By November 2nd Mr Najib had won enough nominations to block his only rival, Razaleigh Hamzah, a former finance minister, from getting on the ballot-paper.Like Mr Badawi before him, Mr Najib comes to the job promising reforms, including of the system of preference for members of the ethnic-Malay majority for state contracts and jobs.

In fact, last week we passed a bipartisan measure to extend the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP).

Many low-income countries can already export some goods duty-free under the "Generalised System of Preferences".

In 1997, for instance, the Clinton administration suspended half of Argentina's benefits under the general system of preferences because its pharmaceutical patent law was deemed unsatisfactory.

The Generalized System of Preferences, which has been helping the poorest countries export to the American market since 1974, expired last September and awaits renewal by the Senate.

Taking into account the 100 or so other poor countries covered by the Generalised System of Preferences, the EU's tangled web already covers most of the world.