The Pentagon has said it will give preference to companies with which it can do business electronically.

五角大楼已经宣布它将优先考虑能与之进行电子交易的公司。

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In one area, it made painstaking efforts to quantify fertility preference to derive figures for planned and unplanned pregnancies.

在一个领域，它付出了艰苦的努力来量化生育偏好，以得出计划生育和非计划生育的数据。

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But it does require them not to tell anyone about their sexual preference.

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So, according to the expectations theory augmented with liquidity preference-- This strongly upward-sloping term structure in 2003 would reflect two things.

所以,根据结合了流动性偏好的,预期理论,2003年期限结构中表现出的,强烈上扬趋势反映了两方面的因素

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But each to their own preference, really, isn't it?

但是每个人都有自己的口味，不是吗？

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Would you trust a doctor who is trying to help someone else in preference to you?

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Why give absolute preference to teachers who have simply stayed in one district for longer?

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All European monarchies permit female succession, though Britain, Spain and Denmark give preference to males.

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