First choice

Usage examples of preference.

West Virginia statute whereby that State sought to require that a preference be accorded local consumers of gas produced within the State.

By preference, they seem to dwell about the sources of the Igatimi, an affluent of the Parana, and in the chain of mountains known either as San Jose or Mbaracayu.

If you are going to go aground, for preference always choose a sandy shoal.

To save them present pain at the risk of future anguish, to consult the feelings of her brother, in preference to his morality, would be forgetting every lesson of her life, which, from its earliest dawn, had imbibed a love of virtue, that made her consider whatever was offensive to it as equally disgusting and unhappy.

They spent months learning about each other, exploring and appreciating their different needs, preferences, and behaviour patterns.

His personal preferences went with Horry, but he could not hesitate in declaring for Mayham.

We have the mastership at this hour by dint of our gold and our hundred-ton guns, but they are telling our farmers to cast aside their corn, and to grow tobacco and fruit and anything else that can be thought of in preference.

In this form, as in the Acepan, the response was predominantly flight, the Ket species having matured into a sensible preference to avoid danger whenever possible.

Whatever friendship he might entertain for Berthollet, it was easy to perceive that he preferred Monge, and that he was led to that preference because Monge, endowed with an ardent imagination, without exactly possessing religious principles, had a kind of predisposition for religious ideas which harmonised with the notions of Bonaparte.

I for one am quite prepared to sacrifice popularist action in preference to do what is both right and necessary.

Give me one indifferent reason why I should remain here against my princessly preference.

I would say further that I am satisfied that you understand your business, and would advise anybody suffering from any chronic disease to avail themselves of your skill in preference to resorting to any other source known to me.

Preference resurged, the valued part of himself that anchored his love for Elaira.

The same sort of diversification according to habitat preferences seems to have been the fate of the horned dinosaurs, a group characterized by such features as huge heads and pointed rostral bones or beaks.

As the Signor addressed himself to Mademoiselle de Rubine, there was an air of respectful tenderness in his deportment which did not elude the observation of her aunt, who would probably have felt somewhat mortified at the preference thus evidently shewn to her dependant, had not the conversation of the Marchese been chiefly directed to herself.