Economists suggested that the drop in expected output despite strong orders could reflect a preference by manufacturers to raise their prices in response to higher demand, rather than boost production.

The trend caught on and the members came to be known as the 'bluestockings', reflecting their preference for intellectual conversation over fashion.

People will argue that the media reflect the preferences of the public.

It reflects a preference for the concrete, the practical and the tested over the abstract, the sophisticated and the untried.

The system would build up a picture over time of accent-influenced search results that best reflected the preferences of each demographic.

Even now, though they have moved into city centres, they still show a preference for suburban charm.

I suspect that many will vote only for one candidate, not wishing to show any preference for the rest.

They did not show a preference out preferre sho p for any handset.

It had made the companies 'increasingly uncomfortable' to the point that they 'may well show a preference ... to protect customers' privacy rather than co-operate with governments'.

Cameras will be trained on an array of differentcoloured bird feeders to see whether garden birds show any preference.

He's merely stating his preference, not the state of cosmic truth.

Candidates can state a preference of location - the challenges faced by an inner-city borough are very different in a rural council.

The remainder were undecided or declined to state their preference.

When we speak of school choice, it amounts to no more than being able to state a preference.

Each group was asked to state a preference among six combinations of reliability and rates, with one of the combinations designated as the status quo.

He had a stated preference for 4-4-2, for counterattack.

These include stated preference methods and revealed preference methods.

Stated preference methods, such as the contingent valuation method ask people for their willingness to pay for a certain ecosystem (service).

These types of studies are referred to as stated preference studies.

This may not always be possible, however using stated preference methods, orthogonality can be ensured through appropriate construction of an experimental design.

No wonder she has developed a strong preference for taking monetary decisions coolly and getting them right.

Dotcom was soon making money and seemed to have a strong preference for spending it on the high life rather than on more mundane bills.

Garden birds show a strong preference for non-organic seed over organic varieties.

After the task they showed a strong preference for sweets and crisps.

Symptoms include a stubborn refusal to act, combined with a strong preference for observation and criticism rather than participation.

For example, matters of policy or subjective preference, and polycentric public policy issues, are better left in the hands of an elected body of persons.

Morality may, of course, be a sham - a mere projection from our subjective preferences, or a function of assorted drives we happen to have inherited from our evolutionary past.

It generates an envy-free division of a cake among three players with subjective preferences.

Ethics and aesthetics were subjective preferences, while theology and other metaphysics contained pseudostatements, neither true nor false.

He considered that there was no objective way to define the requirements of justice and that invocations of justice cloaked purely subjective preferences or unacceptable metaphysical claims.

A group of 12 to 17-year-old students were given non-caffeinated flavoured drinks and asked to rate them according to taste preference.

Taste preference and sensory attributes guide food choice.

But she added that 'if you look beyond health effects, there are plenty of other reasons to buy organic instead of conventional', including environmental concerns and taste preferences.

Private or politically paramount patrons are responsible only to themselves and are free to indulge in their taste preferences.

They brought with them taste preferences that largely remain to this day.

Visual layouts vary by language, country, and user preference, and the same mechanical layout can be produced with a number of different visual layouts.

They can sometimes be changed by different programs or by user preference.

Mobility canes are often made from aluminium, graphite-reinforced plastic or other fibre-reinforced plastic, and can come with a wide variety of tips depending upon user preference.

Several methods were proposed by researchers to speed up convergence, like interactive constrain evolutionary search (user intervention) or fitting user preferences using a convex function.

Stored data and user preferences enable roaming users to access applications and data as if they were using their own desktop machine.

Or were they, as they were over here, pretty well decided but simply averse to disclosing their voting preference for fear of opprobrium or scorn or sheer nastiness?

The stations effectively voted their available program dollars in a series of voting preference rounds.

The voting preference of a neighbourhood tends to be formed by consensus, where people tend to vote with the general trend of the neighbourhood.

Voting preferences among students have always been out of kilter with the electorate at large butstudent voting patterns are taken seriously by parties.

Then, the results are presented with the candidates ranked in descending order of voting preferences.