Sentence examples for traditional preference from inspiring English sources

Or will they stick with their traditional preference (see cave paintings) for representational art?

Finally, there are signs that American parents' traditional preference for sons over daughters is changing.

Modern ultrasound technology, coupled with a traditional preference for boys, has led to mass female foeticide.

Mr. Salzman prevailed over the other bidders, he said, by appealing to the company's traditional preference for family-owned dealerships.

Another obstacle is state school-educated students' traditional preference for the solicitors' branch of the profession over the bar.

Families who buy trafficked children are driven partly by the traditional preference for male heirs, a strict one-child policy and ignorance of the law.

Traditional preferences for graves, instead of smaller areas for urns carrying ashes, has resulted in soaring prices, it said.

Illustrated with nearly 600 photographs, architectural plans, maps, and details, this impressive work of scholarship also offers an engaging narrative of the history of Baltimore itself its men and women of all stations, its taste and traditional preferences, its good choices and lamentable ones, and its built environment as a social and cultural chronicle.

Traditional preferences for boys meant that families limited to one or two children often practiced (illegal) sex-selective abortions or abandoned newborn daughters.

New Hampshire's famously independent voters on Tuesday embraced presidential candidates in both parties with antagonistic views toward international trade agreements, social insurance cuts and money in politics, dealing a blow to the traditional preferences of the bipartisan donor class.

Though as the same report stipulates, and as the results of the current study show, Russians appear to maintain traditional preferences for livestock products, in particular meat, poultry and dairy products.