Sentences with 'preference'
Example sentences and phrases with the word preference and other words derived from it.
• « Analysis of birth rates suggests that infanticide was common, and that girls were often left to die because of a general preference for boys and because the dowry the girl was required to provide at marriage was an onerous expense to the family. »
• « In one study, subjects who repeatedly lost and regained a number of kilos showed a clear preference for fatty foods. In another, women who had a history of intermittent dieting consumed more fatty snacks than those who did not. »
• « In other words, unlike a democracy, in which the mass of non-proprietors could exercise the political right to vote, a republic would limit political rights to proprietors. In this way, republicanism showed a bias towards the elite, an understandable preference given the colonial legacy. »
• « This economic panic would prove politically useful to Jackson's opponents in the years that followed, and Van Buren, elected president in 1836, would pay the price for Jackson's preference for hard currency. »