Preference
in example sentence
The European Parliament’s
preference
for greater gender parity is surely welcome, though it is probably based more on a desire to avoid criticism than a genuine commitment to diversity.
More example sentences with word preference
You can see it in college graduation patterns, in job projections, in our marriage statistics, you can see it in the Icelandic elections, which you'll hear about later, and you can see it on South Korean surveys on son preference, that something amazing and unprecedented is happening with women.
Babies quickly show their
preference
by choosing the first one.
A sort of French version of this experiment was carried out in Dijon, France where researchers found that mothers who consumed food and drink flavored with licorice-flavored anise during pregnancy showed a
preference
for anise on their first day of life, and again, when they were tested later, on their fourth day of life.
A study I cite in this TIME magazine covering in the book "The Sibling Effect," found 70 percent of fathers and 65 percent of mothers exhibit a
preference
for at least one child.
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