Preference
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Their main political
preference
then becomes resistance to those external threats.
When faced with such major social problems, a
preference
for ignorance over knowledge is difficult to defend.
People may have a taste for oranges or bananas, or a
preference
for enjoying life today instead of saving for the future.
Under normal circumstances, one would expect the government’s policy to reflect the majority’s preference, and to aim for a “soft Brexit.”
The result of this is to neglect the overall North American perspective while giving
preference
to a domestic or bilateral vision that sometimes fails to promote the larger objective of integration.
So the
preference
of the possible Republican voters has been for someone who hasn’t been “tainted” by “Washington.”
He simply takes it for granted that most people prefer to live with their own kind, and that policymakers must attend to this
preference.
[Graph]Economists weighing this issue through the lens of “revealed
preference
theory” would argue that asylum-seekers are analytical decision-makers who seek out countries such as Germany for its low unemployment rate.
Moreover, Assad has stated explicitly that European companies are not welcome to help with the reconstruction, and that
preference
should be given to Russian firms.
An intriguing 2014 study found that even when participants stated that they wanted to read positive stories, their behavior revealed a
preference
for negative content (a
preference
they didn’t even realize).
Shell traditionally uses its scenarios to prepare for the future without expressing a
preference
for one over another.
The deviation is usually attributed to a cultural
preference
for boys, which will take an additional toll on both populations, as the future scarcity of women implies that both countries’ effective reproductive capacity is below what is suggested by the unadjusted TFR.
Abroad, it has meant a clear
preference
for violent solutions in Bahrain, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen.
Simultaneously, banks gave
preference
to shedding assets outside their national borders, and risk managers try to match assets and liabilities at home, rather than within the eurozone as a whole.
The dowry tradition puts pressure on girls’ families to marry them early, leading to a
preference
for sons – and thus to sex-specific abortions targeting female fetuses.
Alternatively, with neither of the larger parties able to declare real victory, they could decide as a compromise to indicate
preference
for one of the other leaders who had campaigned – perhaps Verhofstadt, the liberal centrist.
Germany’s embrace of a more active global role has taken place within a rapidly changing geopolitical landscape – one in which German and other European leaders have had to accept that most of the rest of the world does not share their
preference
for multilateral decision-making.
The
preference
for asset-based saving over income-based saving is central to America’s current-account deficit.
Arrow’s theorem shows that even very mild conditions of reasonableness in arriving at social decisions on the basis of simple
preference
rankings of a society’s individuals could not be simultaneously satisfied by any procedure.
Scrutiny of the formal reasoning that establishes the theorem shows that relying only on the
preference
rankings of individuals makes it difficult to distinguish between very dissimilar social choice problems.
It is also important to examine which types of clusters of
preference
rankings are problematic for different types of voting procedures.
Both revelations underscore China’s
preference
for strategic subterfuge.
For many, this was either because producers’
preference
for negative stories put them in a bad mood, or because they viewed the reporting as politically slanted and therefore untrustworthy.
In neighboring Brazil, President Dilma Rousseff’s administration made little effort to hide its
preference
for Macri’s opponent.
He has, after all, shown a clear
preference
for personal, bilateral deals, like those he makes with his businesses, rather than engaging in formal, much less multilateral, diplomacy.
The Fed’s
preference
for glacial normalization both in the early 2000s and now keeps monetary policy on emergency settings long after the emergency has passed.
Independent national monetary policies in a common market were rightly seen as infeasible, given Europeans’
preference
for stable exchange rates and open financial markets.
These include humanitarian visas,
preference
matching between host countries and asylum seekers, resettlement, and much stronger support for frontline countries.
But its consistent
preference
for lining up on the other side of the divide – even when doing so runs counter to its own national interests – calls into question whether it has the internal fortitude to be a leader.
What is clear is the West’s
preference
for the Turkish model.
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