Sentence examples for your first preference from inspiring English sources

Laws told the education select committee on Wednesday he opposed the use of unqualified teachers, but "in a coalition it is necessary sometimes to vote for things that are not your first preference".

If the candidate who is your second preference is a strong challenger to your first preference, you may be able to help your favorite by putting the challenger last.

You should research other universities or similar courses if you are not confident in being accepted into your first preference course.

But the fact is, sooner or later, if you're going to be responsible, you have to set aside your first preferences and simply do what is necessary in order to keep the government open".

It discourages scorched-earth negative campaigning, because candidates want your second preference if they can't get your first.

Rather than asking who they'd be backing if they weren't running, a much better question - and one that is harder to wriggle out of - is: to whom will you give your second preference?

If the candidate you support is likely to win or come second, there may actually be no point in voting for anyone else, because your second preference vote is unlikely to be counted.

If a node cannot be mapped to this id type, however, BioNetBuilder attempts to map the node to your second preference, and so on.

Give your first-preference vote to Siobhan Benita and your second to Boris, Ken, Brian, Jenny or whoever, and you will double your influence.

A score of "2" for first preference; "1" for second preference, and the non-preferred container received a score of '0'.

Campbell received 6139 first preference votes and exceeded the quota.