* December 21 – Preferential Trade Area for Eastern and Southern Africa ( PTA ).

Preferential access based on a quota system was agreed for products, such as sugar and beef, in competition with EC agriculture.

The primary mechanism for achieving the goals given above is the Common Effective Preferential Tariff ( CEPT ) scheme, which established a schedule for phased initiated in 1992 with the self-described goal to increase the " region ’ s competitive advantage as a production base geared for the world market ".

* Preferential hiring for spouses of veterans in government jobs

* Preferential rates for entry to The Best Awards

* Queensland, along with New South Wales, operates a balloting system known as Optional Preferential Voting for state elections.

Preferential access based on a quota system was agreed for products, such as sugar and beef, in competition with EC agriculture.

Preferential treatment of the guards was seen by many as a reward for not striking over the loss of their jobs in brake vans.

* Preferential Bidding System, a computer system for employee work-duty bidding

Preferential voting for a single seat is used in elections for the Federal House of Representatives ( since 1918 ), for all mainland State lower houses, and for the Northern Territory's Legislative Assembly.

* Preferential civil rights for Japanese subjects over other nationalities.

Preferential Option for the Poor.

Preferential collection of the larger plants of the species for medicinal use appears to be causing natural selection to favour shorter plants in areas that are heavily harvested.

" Sowell since then has written on affirmative action in an international context to address such criticisms in two books ( Preferential Policies, Affirmative Action Around the World ) and has written about pay differentials and occupational segregation in Economic Facts and Fallacies.

* Booknotes interview with Sowell on Preferential Policies, June 10, 1990.

The Agreement on SAARC Preferential trading Arrangement ( SAPTA ) was signed on 11 April 1993 and entered into force on 7 December 1995, with the desire of the Member States of SAARC ( India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Bhutan and the Maldives ) to promote and sustain mutual trade and economic cooperation within the SAARC region through the exchange of concessions.

This situation is made worse by the fact that the state's Optional Preferential Voting system operates effectively as a first-past-the-post system and prevents Liberal and National candidates supporting each other by preferences.

Preferential access to sugar and clothing markets amounted to 7 % of GDP in the 1980s and 4. 5 % in the 1990s, capital and current accounts were liberalised, contributing to an investment and employment boom and the high inflow of FDI brought with it managerial skills.

Electoral reforms in 2001 introduced the Limited Preferential Vote system ( LPV ), a version of the Alternative Vote.

In Australia-where it is used to elect members of, among other institutions, its lower house-it is called Preferential voting ; in the United Kingdom and Ireland-where it is used to elect the president-it is known as the Alternative Vote, or AV.

Preferential sputtering can occur at the start when a multicomponent solid target is bombarded and there is no solid state diffusion.

* Preferential issue.

" Preferential policies " required some of the top positions in governments be distributed to ethnic minorities and women.

The term is also present in geopolitics, where the Melanesian Spearhead Group Preferential Trade Agreement is a regional trade treaty involving the states of Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea and Fiji.

An alternative to the Two-round voting system is the single round instant-runoff voting system ( Also referred to as Alternative vote or Preferential voting ) as used in Australia, Ireland and some states in the USA.

There are 2 types of cards: Preferential and General, cost rates with 50 and 15 % lower total cost.

Preferential attachment and the fitness model have been proposed as mechanisms to explain conjectured power law degree distributions in real networks.

This is known as the Common Effective Preferential Tariff ( CEPT ) scheme.

Preferential voting has gradually extended to both upper and lower houses, in the federal, state and territory legislatures, and is also used in municipal elections, and most other kinds of elections as well, such as internal political party elections, trade union elections, church elections, elections to company boards and elections in voluntary bodies such as football clubs.

* Bus priority: Preferential treatment of buses at signalized intersections can involve the extension of green time and / or allowing the bus to proceed sooner, out of turn, relative to the normal sequence of signal phases.

Preferential voting was among the topics discussed, but no serious negotiations were entered into, with both parties indicating that such a move would be premature.

He attacked Prime Minister Gordon Brown saying he "... now wants to fiddle the electoral system " by wanting to look at a Preferential Voting system with a single transferrable vote, similar to that used in Australia and other countries.

Preferential tax treatment of dividend income ( as opposed to interest income ) may, in many cases, result in a greater after-tax return than might be achieved with bonds.

Preferential voting was among the topics discussed, but no serious negotiations were entered into, with both parties indicating that such a move would be premature.

The Mayor is directly elected using Preferential Voting.

Asteroids was released via Xbox Live Arcade for the Xbox 360 on November 28, 2007, with an option for special revamped HD graphics and a high-speed " throttle monkey " mode.

The Bruce and its copies, known generically as " claws ", have become a popular option for small boaters.

On August 5, 2008 Dan Haren signed a four-year, $ 44. 75 million deal with the Diamondbacks worth a guaranteed $ 41. 25 million through 2012 and including a $ 15. 5 million club option for 2013 with a $ 3. 5 million buyout.

Wheat was not an option for most of those that lived in the southern colonies.

To replace the Embraer P-95 Bandeirulha in the maritime patrol duties, 12 Lockheed P-3A Orions have been bought from US Navy surplus and eight ( with an option for a ninth ) of them are being upgraded by EADS CASA in Spain, the remainder are to be used as spare parts source.

The lightness of modern racquets allows players to use a very short hitting action for many strokes, thereby maintaining the option to hit a powerful or a soft stroke until the last possible moment.

* Surrender ( only available as first decision of a hand ): Some games offer the option to " surrender ", usually in hole card games and directly after the dealer has checked for blackjack ( but see below for variations ).

Those who do not wish to abide by the terms of the Sleepycat Public License have the option of purchasing another proprietary license for redistribution from Oracle Corporation.

For the second exam, called the Principles and Practices, Part 2, or the Professional Engineering exam, candidates may select a particular engineering discipline's content to be tested on ; there is currently not an option for BME with this, meaning that any biomedical engineers seeking a license must prepare to take this examination in another category ( which does not affect the actual license, since most jurisdictions do not recognize discipline specialties anyway ).

Their major objections ( exceptions ) were: firstly, that it was improper for the lay congregation to take any vocal part in prayer ( as in the Litany or Lord's Prayer ), other than to say " Amen "; secondly, that no set prayer should exclude the option of an extempore alternative from the Minister ; thirdly, that the Minister should have the option to omit part of the set liturgy at his discretion ; fourthly, that short Collects should be replaced by longer prayers and exhortations ; and fifthly, that all surviving " Catholic " ceremonial should be removed.

Topiramate, is another treatment option for resistant catatonia ; it produces its therapeutic effects by producing glutamate antagonism via modulation of AMPA receptors.

The HTTP / 1. 1 header specification for a HTML document must label an appropriate encoding in the Content-Type header, missing < tt > charset =</ tt > parameter results in acceptance of ISO-8859-1 ( so HTTP / 1. 1 formally does not offer such option as an unspecified character encoding ), and this specification supersedes all HTML ( or XHTML ) meta element ones.

Another option for dealing with hills is to tunnel through them.

Yet Fulham's comfortable Premier League table positions in the previous years and the fact that, for the previous three seasons the ground has been filled to capacity, means stadium expansion is a viable option.

On November 17, 2011, Dale Sveum agreed to a three year contract with an option for a fourth to become new manager of the Cubs.

In the NFL, only scoring plays, the final 2: 00 of each half and all overtime periods are reviewed, and coaches are issued two challenges ( with the option for a 3rd if the first two are successful ).

An option for treating partners of patients ( index cases ) diagnosed with chlamydia or gonorrhea is patient-delivered partner therapy ( PDT or PDPT ), which is the clinical practice of treating the sex partners of index cases by providing prescriptions or medications to the patient to take to his / her partner without the health care provider first examining the partner.

Certain soft or elastic materials become hard and brittle at very low temperatures, which makes cryogenic milling ( cryomilling ) an option for some materials that cannot easily be milled at higher temperatures.

Individuals may file Chapter 11, but due to the complexity and expense of the proceeding, this option is rarely chosen by debtors who are eligible for Chapter 7 or Chapter 13 relief.

There is also a fourth option, which involves using one of the file hosting services that backs up files over the Internet for both business and individuals.

According to the National Psoriasis Foundation and the FDA, coal tar is a valuable, safe and inexpensive treatment option for millions of people with psoriasis and other scalp or skin conditions.

The first option is less logical, but results in shorter marks for most English language libraries.