On the whole the preferential system does not seem to involve any injustice to those who do not receive the preference.
Position on the list is determined by competitive examination plus preferential points for veterans, experience in jobs, etc.
There is some evidence in favour of preferential mating or selective association.
Natural selection by elimination and sexual selection through preferential mating are, supposing them to be veræ causæ, guiding or selecting agencies.
Among other associations are those which are at the base of what I have termed preferential mating.
For if preferential mating is à priori probable, such display may be regarded as the outcome of this mode of selection.
Still, I cannot doubt that the foundations of recognition-marks were laid in preferential mating, and that in this we have an important factor in segregation.
But he denies that preferential mating, acting on recognition-marks, has had any effect in furthering a differentiation of form or colour.
At present what we have to notice is that, throughpreferential mating, segregation is effected.
But has not human selection through preferential mating?
And now we come to the central question with regard to sexual selection by means of preferential mating.
The committee considered and rejected the idea of providing preferentialtreatment for Negroes to achieve better representation in the services and in the higher grades.
Both men, however, fell so short of meeting the minimum professional requirements that to appoint either would be to accord preferential treatment denied to hundreds of other underqualified applicants.
The practice of withholding promotion from deserving black officers along with preferential assignments for white officers prolonged the malady.
In the life of the new era conceptions of authentic rank and differential dignity have grown weaker in practical affairs, and notions of preferential reality and authentic tradition similarly count for less in the new science.
In all phases of material civilisation these preferential advantages are sought and valued.
Mr. Chamberlain's sudden declaration of a policy of preferential tariffs in his speech at Birmingham in 1903 is only an extreme example of what sometimes occurs.
This does not mean that if a government comes into power pledged to a definite policy, such as Home Rule or a preferential tariff, the under-secretary would be consulted about the general principle.
Finally there are motions which attack the cabinet or its policy, motions, for example, condemning preferential tariffs on food, or the control by the central government of the police in Ireland.
The motion expressed regret that certain ministers had accepted official positions in the Liberal Unionist Association, which had recently declared its adhesion to the policy of preferential duties, involving the taxation of food.
It is not altogether an accident, it is rather a sign of the times, that Mr. Chamberlain broached his plan of preferential tariffs, not in Parliament, but at a public meeting in Birmingham.
A proof of the small importance attached to the votes is furnished by the history of the movement for fair trade or preferential tariffs.
He deplored the protectionism of the colonies, but was himself a strict free-trader of the school of Cobden, and utterly opposed to any attempt to negotiate treaties with the colonies on a basis of preferential tariffs.
The effect on the West Indies of the abolition of the preferential duty on sugar was a subject which he had specially studied during his journey, and he had published a pamphlet upon it.
The Imperial Government of Russia declare that they have not in Manchuria any territorial advantages or preferential or exclusive concessions in impairment of Chinese sovereignty or inconsistent with the principle of equal opportunity.
Among the Thonga of South Africa several interesting forms of preferential matrimonial union occur.
Preferential tariff within the Empire would be highly advantageous to the Mother Country.
In this present year there is much writing and much talking about arbitration treaties and preferential tariffs.
Is the preferentialshop so delicate a fabric as to prove futile?
This, then, was the first public presentation of the idea of the preferential shop.
They drew up an agreement in which the preferential union shop again appeared as the basis of future operations, formulated as in the Brandeis conference.
As for the idea of the preferential Union shop, it had undoubtedly been gaining ground.
They almost mobbed the East Side leaders, with their voluble questioning about the preferential Union shop.
The Vorwärts printed a statement that the preferential shop was the "open shop with honey.
Mr Chamberlain himself had proposed only to take it off as regards colonial, and not foreign corn,--thus inaugurating a preferential system.
A head whisked off, brains dashed out, or some other short form of savage dispatch, is the preferential method of destruction.
Such a thing has happened frequently throughout the South; with the result that many places have been given strongly preferential rates for no other reason than the arbitrary decision of some one of the carriers.
The indiscriminate and cut-throat competition of the carriers, particularly in connection with the trunk line rate wars, offered a golden opportunity to those in search of secret and preferential rates.
In other words, there might well be departure from the published rates, without preferential treatment.
A particular regulation of a carrier engaged in interstate commerce is assailed in the courts as unjustly preferential and discriminatory.
The use of the industrial railroad as a means of preferential treatment still occasions difficulty.
And investigations in California showed the existence of an extensive system of preferential rates.
In only one respect is the distance principle violated: namely, in the preferential rates from the north to Houston and Galveston as compared with the higher charges to intermediate Texas points.
In a special message to Congress at the end of 1911, Mr Taft urged the necessity for the establishment of preferential rates for American shipping passing through the Panama Canal.
There would, however, be a very serious position created for British trading interests if a proposal were carried out of an American preferential tariff system embracing the United States and Latin America.
Germany had declined to pledge herself not to levy preferential duties at Kiao Chao, and claimed exclusive rights over railway construction through the Shantung Province.
France was claiming preferentialrights with regard to her leasehold in Southern China.
It was really a preferential delivery, a delivery restricted to those who chose to pay for it.
Against this preferential delivery, a delivery purchased by individuals at the expense of the general public, Cobbett very justly inveighed.
Bangkok has pursued preferential trade agreements with a variety of partners in an effort to boost exports and to maintain high growth.
The lord on whose manor the tenant had heretofore dwelt had preferential claim to his labour, and could threaten with imprisonment every refractory villein.
From 1351 the masters' preferential claim to the villeins of their own manor disappears, or is greatly limited.
Complaints respecting "preferential rates" have been an especially fertile source of controversy and litigation.
All the tribes represented seem equally affected, and neither slave nor freeman seems to have preferential treatment.
He shall further decide whether the preferentialright alluded to in the preceding Article shall be given to them in regard to this larger extent of land.
Only by receiving a large number of individual preferential votes can a candidate be elected to the exclusion of a candidate whose name precedes his.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "preferential" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: better; favored; favoring; inside
