Having duly considered the effect of light upon colour, we may fearlessly choose tints for every room according to personal preferences or tastes.
After the relation of colour to light is established--with personal preferences duly taken into account--the next law is that of gradation.
Even without expressed preferences for one over the other, she is sometimes in danger of being drawn into quarrels the servants have between themselves.
She is ignorant of the preferences of her new employer.
If, however, the mistress has her decided preferences in favor of the maid dressing herself in a special fashion, it is her business to provide the raiment in which the maid is required to appear.
Concessions are rendered to the preferences of the servants when they wish to vary their days out, and they in turn are ready to accommodate themselves to the wishes of their employers when a change of holidays seems desirable.
For example, if the cook comes into the house in the morning, give her time to get used to her kitchen and her tools before too much information is offered as to the preferences of the family in cookery.
I think he had no preferences but wished Conkling defeated, and at the same time did not want to take a position which would incur the enmity of him or his friends.
He, however, insisted upon it, saying that all pledges and preferences would disappear because of Greeley's services to the party for so many years.
Not all the stories of the abuses of monastic institutions can destroy the respect of every ingenuous mind for the spiritualpreferences out of which they arose.
What an enormous loss of knowledge must the traveller sustain who omits to observe and reflect upon the spirit of the fresh literature of a people, or of its preferences among the literature of the past!
These are facts against which our personal preferences are of no avail.
The population of the area that has changed hands is mixed, but most of those who have strong national preferences have been resettled in the country of their choice.
As the State Committee for Science, Technical Progress, and Higher Education determines the specialization to be pursued, this list reflects more the preferences of the government than those of the students.
A more serious problem is the issue of student preferences versus the demands of the economy.
Changes in proportionate expenditures for other nonessentials during the 1960s reflected the income differences and taste preferences of the different social categories as well as their rural or urban residence.
Preferences vary according to race, time, place and circumstance.
Fifty five of the more common and hence best-known birds are listed in Table 1 together with their primary and secondary preferences of habitat.
They do not think the worse of a person for having preferences or prejudices; though when one has uttered a raw preference or an unreasonable prejudice in their presence one is ashamed, as one is for hurling a stone into a sleeping pool.
The non-American character of the scene was not less vividly marked in the fact that each person dressed according to his own taste and frankly indulged private preferences in shapes and colors.
They were at that time of life when people first turn to their children's opinion with deference, and, in the loss of keenness in their own likes and dislikes, consult the young preferences which are still so sensitive.
The consumer will pay by providing his personal data (demographic data, consumption patterns andpreferences and so on) and by being exposed to advertising.
Market Fragmentation In a fragmented market with a myriad of mutually exclusive market niches, consumer preferences and marketing and sales channels - economies of scale in manufacturing and distribution are meaningless.
But it is surely impossible to explain all our sentiments and preferences in this simple way.
He is confident, and rightly confident, that the simple taking counsel of his own intuitive preferences would be certain to end in a mutilation of the fulness of the truth.
The preferences of sentient creatures are what create the importance of topics.
Are our moral preferences true or false, or are they only odd biological phenomena, making things good or bad for us, but in themselves indifferent?
His various ideals, known to him to be mere preferences of his own, are too nearly of the same denominational value: he can play fast or loose with them at will.
And if the British Empire is to be self-sufficing, its trade canalised into channels drawn along certain political lines, the preferences and prohibitions will create many animosities.
Of two contestants, each can retain his religion or literary preferences without depriving the other of like possessions; they cannot both retain the same piece of material property.
Are we to sacrifice our self-sufficiency for the sake of American and French friendship, or risk losing the friendship by preferences designed to ensure self-sufficiency?
And as to their personal preferences for receiving spiritual benefits from one Christian teacher rather than another, this shows a complete misconception as to the source of the benefit and the position of the teacher.
There is no trace of the innocent preferenceswhich Matt.
The electors of the large parties would be more afraid of one another than of the small party, and would give their second preferencesto its candidate.
They might record their honest preferences as regards the candidates of their own party, but they would naturally place the candidates of the opposing party in inverse order of merit.
Therefore, if all first preferences be multiplied by ten, second preferences by nine, and so on in regular order down to last preferences multiplied by one, the total number of marks will be an index of the order in general favour.
Three out of every four first preferences are found to be effective, but only one out of every five second preferences, and one out of fifty third preferences.
Another count of first preferences should then be made, and the lowest again thrown out; and so on till one candidate gets an absolute majority.
It must be remembered that in all transfers a certain number of papers are lost owing to the preferences being exhausted, and the additional loss would be small.
The method may be indefinitely extended; if there are five candidates the first two preferences and one-half of the third preferences are counted, and so on.
At the first count the primary half of the preferences should be counted as effective votes, and the candidates should be reduced to twice the number of vacancies.
Why force him to express preferences where he does not feel any?
The candidate who is first excluded has one preference only taken account of, while others have many preferences given effect to.
The elector is allowed to express his opinion about a number of candidates, certainly, but after being put to this trouble only one of his preferences is used.
If this statement means anything it is that the three preferences which are required to be expressed should have been all counted as effective votes at the Hobart election instead of one only; and this is exactly what we advocate.
It is safe to say, from the small proportion of second and third preferences which he secured, that if the Block Vote had been adopted he would have been at the bottom of the poll.
She was very polite and gentle; unlike many princesses, she was not given to fickle preferences and to infatuations as intense as they were brief; she was not unjust, violent, or capricious.
In fact, what he desired was the Austrian marriage; but he was anxious to keep his preferences secret, in order to prolong in the eyes of his principal councillors, an uncertainty in which his pride did not suffer.
The same law also holds good with regard to the preferences shown to those who have no superiority over us, who are nothing more than our equals in beauty, in cleverness, in accomplishments.
But, further, under this concurrent power, the State does that which Congress cannot do; that is, it gives preferences to the citizens of some States over those of others.
I am willing to waive my personal preferences if by so doing I can help forward the cause; especially as the satisfaction of my personal preferences is manifestly impossible.
The remedy lies in using, so far as they can be kept interesting, questions in which there is no moral element; but still better in assigning sides to correspond with the actual views and preferences of the debaters.
The human mind is very complex, and our various interests and preferences are inseparably tangled.
Our aesthetic interests, which include our preferences in all the fields of art and literature and things beautiful or ugly in daily life, even more obviously go back to feeling.
I have no preferences in the matter," she mocked back.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "preferences" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
