Sentence examples for the wrong preference from inspiring English sources

The Zulus, Mr. McManus points out, have another technique: if a child shows the wrong preference, a hole is dug in the earth, boiling water is poured in, and the child's left hand is submerged.

Professor Altman, who Emanuel cited as the "dean of health policy," said he is concerned that the White House is focused on the wrong challenge, giving preference to cost containment over expanding coverage.

Most of these models assume that a linkage between preference for a specific host and performance on that same host must exist, i.e. that there needs to be a fitness-cost to choosing the wrong host for such a preference to evolve in the first place.

Moreover, the manganese protein MncA has a 10,000 times greater preference for the wrong metal, copper, than for manganese.

A discussion of the variations is instructive, but criticism for not following one surgeon's preferences sends the wrong message.

"However, this is probably the wrong way round – the human male preference for younger females is likely to be because older females are less fertile.

She quotes a number of analysts to the effect that these developers are betting on the wrong proposition long-term, as consumer preferences are inevitably (if slowly in some places) shifting to a different, less sprawling model.

Hence its preference for covert easing.This is the wrong choice, for two reasons.

We had been laboring under the misapprehension that having the wrong representation online could lead to negative behavioral preference.

It constitutes an overwhelming ethical imperative in the context of preference sensitive care where the failure to elicit and act on patients' preferences is tantamount to operating on the wrong patient [ 51].

There will also always be boards that make the wrong decision and decide to deflect a hostile offer out of an undue preference to stay independent.