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.
If this shift in preference occurs, US stocks are poised to outperform foreign markets in the years ahead.
Additional hedging activity can be seen in the rise in preference for calls on the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX).
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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.
In the 1990s when I was young, there was a land selling frenzy within the neighbourhood in preference for cheap or free forest land in Mau.
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 bill seeks to allow employers to take on candidates who have a "protective characteristic" in preference over someone else as long as they have the same qualifications.
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.
He was then promoted in 1994 to minister for local transport and road safety but stood down at the 1997 general election in preference of earning some "serious money" and became director general of the Road Haulage Association.
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.
BMW's ordinary shares, and big long positions in their preference shares, will hinge on whether they were kept in the trading book or the so-called banking book, where WestLB makes strategic investments.
However, because there is such a strong contrast in the preference for menthol by race and sex and because there are large differences in the rates of these cancers also by race and sex, we felt that this was a case in which an ecologic approach could be informative.
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Auto makers in India have been increasing their production of diesel vehicles because of the change in customer preference.
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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