Would you trust a doctor who is trying to help someone else in preference to you?
Of those responding 96% said they would use Manston in preference to other airports.
The young scholars still carry books around, for instance, in preference to reading them.
"Government must provide practical help with, where ever possible, incentives in preference to penalties, " he will say.
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Imagine the embarrassment if voters chose a well-known rebel in preference to a loyal New Labour apparatchik.
The design was chosen by the Bradman Foundation in preference to one of him playing a cover drive.
There is anger over the use of English in preference to Malay.
But he gives the singer some credit for visiting the museum in the first place, in preference to some of the city's seedier attractions.
There is a second advantage to using lasers in preference to radar: while they have a similar range, laser sensors have a significantly wider field of vision.
The first is in the push for increased use of nuclear power in preference to other fuels, especially oil, which is volatile in price and entails many political ramifications.
And if they really believe that, then they should have no difficulty persuading companies to lend to their investment banks, in preference to depositing funds in the retail banks.
These are a special type of share that pay a regular flat dividend in perpetuity, and which receive their payment in preference to the dividends paid out on ordinary shares.
Earlier this month two grammar schools in Dorset announced that from 2010 they would admit state-school applicants in preference to private-school ones, even if the latter had better 11-plus results.
Callaghan resigned in 1980 and Labour MPs elected Foot as their leader in preference to the candidate of the right, Denis Healey, some said because they hoped for a quiet life.
While a pronounced shift in preference to fleet operated vehicles is one possibility, other evidence should give us pause to watch for more signs as to how this will all play out.
The Hampshire batsman came to the crease in the second over and struck his first ball to the boundary after Luke Wright, selected in preference to Alastair Cook, had been caught behind.
One in five consultants questioned also said they had treated less severely ill or disabled patients in preference to those with more severe problems - simply to fulfill waiting list initiative requirements.
Think of the utility of a subway token in preference to cash, or (as in Monopoly), how much easier it is to move a game piece around a board than your physical self.
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West Ham boss Alan Curbishley refused to speak after the game, but assistant Mervyn Day played down comments which seemed to suggest the Hammers boss wanted United to win the league in preference to Chelsea.
Not really, just evidence of the familiar problem of British skills shortages a problem so acute that many employers prefer to hire a worker who does not have English as a first language, in preference to a less-skilled native.
America has become a country that routinely hunts down and kills individual terrorist enemies overseas - apparently now in preference to capturing and detaining them indefinitely - and its citizens put up with more burdensome security restrictions in transportation and in public places than before, as well as with a somewhat less constricted system of domestic electronic surveillance.
Methodologies to sense movement in consumer preference allow the marketer to refine the value proposition offering and approach to the customer.
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In some parts of England, more than 40% of families failed to get a place in their first preference secondary school, according to official figures.
Put simply, it allows you to rank candidates in order of preference and requires every MP to have secured the support of at least half of their constituents.
"The continued shift in the customer' preference to shop online is undeniable, " Farah said.
In the latest poll out of New Hampshire, McCain now leads George W. Bush in voter preference 37 percent to 30 percent.
Plug-in hybrids should give preference to all-electric vehicles at charging stations.
The other question which I wanted answered was how the firm had got hold of my number - which I've listed with the Telephone Preference Service in order to avoid getting these calls.
This, however, is not the fashionable opinion in hip tech circles, where admitting a preference to anything besides Gmail is gauche and unseemly, rather like going to an Arcade Fire concert in a Justin Bieber tee shirt.
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In fact, all programming exists at a certain level of abstraction, from machine language on up to preference settings in consumer user interfaces.
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