Sentence examples for universal preference from inspiring English sources
But the reasons why there is an almost universal preference for the right hand are still unclear.
Other factors contributed, including the (pretty universal) preference for low taxes over big investment in things you can't see, such as sewers.Could another factor racism have been involved?
But since 1945 South Dakotans have elected more Democratic senators than Republican ones.Mr Johnson hopes the voters will remember their liking for pork-barrel spending (a universal preference, but understandable in a poor state).
The importance of minimizing possible side effects in the clinical setting may also explain the universal preference of all the surgeons included in this survey for celecoxib rather than other possible nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.
"The universal preference, however, has been to require pilots, so that human judgment is available.
She takes a sweeping look at how our culture has evolved from a universal preference for sons and an organizing principle of patriarchy -- still going strong as recently as the early 1980s -- to pretty much the exact opposite.
A more careful look at cross-cultural research revealed evidence of universal preferences and biases across the human species.
In their practical force, ideals are equivalent to universal preferences that differ from personal preferences in their content, but owe their moral weight to the prevalence and intensity of whatever preferences their realization would satisfy.
Moral ideals register within this framework simply as universal preferences; to allow one's own ideals to override more intense or prevalent desires or ideals of others is a kind of egoism, and so excluded.
For any given gene, we report codon bias (as = 1−Suzuki's weighted relative entropy) on a scale of 0 (indicating no bias) to 1 (indicating universal preferences for single codons).
Underlying it and the old kind alike he detects a basic and seemingly universal human preference for being persuaded rather than coerced.Mr Dunn does recognise the distorting influence of money and special interests.
