It was the pen, with its preference for curves, that eliminated the angular forms; it was the papyrus, and still more the parchment or vellum, and, in modern times, paper, that made these curves possible.
The European Union, with its preference for bureaucratic obscurity, calls it the "Barcelona process".
Thus biography, with its preference for the interior life, is often defined in opposition to historical narrative.
Few cities in Europe feel as laid back as Amsterdam, with its preference for pedestrians and bikes, its outdoor cafes and easygoing policies on drugs and sex.
With its preference for "private over state" and "freedom before equality", the FDP's demands will be very different from the SPD's.
There have always been questions about whether minimalism was itself authoritarian and somehow anti-human in its regularity, with its preference for the grid and the machine-made surface.
The combination of managed care, with its preference for the quick fix of medication, and the financial power of the pharmaceutical industry is very dangerous for the mental health of teenagers.
Mr Karadzic and Mrs Plavsic have been fighting a low-level war in which the NATO-led force, with its preference for Mrs Plavsic, has been acting as referee.
Breaking with the traditions of the High Renaissance, with its preference for idealized depiction of the human form, Caravaggio offered a more realistic interpretation of religious scenes in many of his paintings.
The structure endows PTEN with its preference for acidic phospholipid substrates such as PIP3.
