The point is that the reactionary, for whatever motive, perceives himself to have been part or a partner of something that extended beyond himself, something which, consequently, he was not able to accept or reject on the basis of subjective preference.

Does the organization show an affinity for a foreign government, political party or personality in opposition or preference to the American system??

Counsel for Du Pont indicated a preference for the submission of detailed plans by both sides at an early date.

The selection of materials depends on skills of available labor for installation, cost of materials available locally, and your own preference.

'' Boundary maintenance for this group would seem to be primarily social, as is the preference for endogamy.

The adoption of a standard recognizable type for a long time, is probably because nature gives preference in survival of a type which has long be adopted by the climatic conditions, and also due to the general Greek belief that nature expresses itself in ideal forms that can be imagined and represented.

Current positions of the ACLU include: opposing the death penalty ; supporting gay marriage and the right of gays to adopt ; supporting birth control and abortion rights ; eliminating discrimination against women, minorities, and gays ; supporting the rights of prisoners and opposing torture ; supporting the right of religious persons to practice their faiths without government interference ; and opposing any government preference for religion over non-religion, or for particular faiths over others.

Conversely, British English favours fitted as the past tense of fit generally, whereas the preference of American English is more complex: AmEng prefers fitted for the metaphorical sense of having made an object " fit " ( i. e., suited ) for a purpose ; in spatial transitive contexts, AmEng uses fitted for the sense of having made an object conform to an unchanged object that it surrounds ( e. g., " fitted X around Y ") but fit for the sense of having made an object conform to an unchanged object that surrounds it ( e. g., " fit X into Y "); and for the spatial senses ( both intransitive and transitive ) of having been matching with respect to contour, with no alteration of either object implied, AmEng prefers fit (" The clothes fit.

Challenges have been made against the Act of Settlement, especially its provisions regarding Roman Catholics and preference for males.

What was new was a refusal to credit the higher status of certain types, where the taxonomy implied a preference for tragedy and the sublime to comedy and the Rococo.

* Regional tariff preference granted to products originating in the member countries, based on the tariffs in force for third countries

" The policy remained controversial, and was finally repealed in 2011, removing open sexual preference as a reason for dismissal from the armed forces.

Disraeli's preference for female company prevented the development of contact with those who were otherwise not alienated by his opinions, comportment or background.

Saddles also vary with rider preference, from the cushioned ones favored by short-distance riders to narrower saddles which allow more room for leg swings.

During the building boom of the 19th century in the eastern seaboard cities of Boston and New York City, for example, locally made bricks were often used in construction in preference to the brownstones of New Jersey and Connecticut for these reasons.

Sky News claimed that a number of British cable operators had been incentivised to carry News 24 ( which, as a licence-fee funded channel was made available to such operators for free ) in preference to the commercial Sky News.

J. P. Harris and Robert M. Citino point out that the Germans had always had a marked preference for short, decisive campaigns – but were unable to achieve short-order victories in First World War conditions.

The furniture for the library was specified by the architects with the preference for oak veneer book stacks and black linoleum floor covering.

This correspond to the use of air quality control measures, to the choice of easy-to-clean floor, wall, and furniture coverings, and to the preference for single-bed rooms with private toilets to enable separation or isolation of patients.

In voting systems, tactical voting ( or strategic voting or sophisticated voting or insincere voting ) occurs, in elections with more than two viable candidates, when a voter supports a candidate other than his or her sincere preference in order to prevent an undesirable outcome .< ref >

Duverger has studied the evolution of political systems and the institutions that operate in diverse countries, showing a preference for empirical methods of investigation rather than philosophical reasoning.

The preference for males in most systems of primogeniture ( and in other mechanisms of hereditary succession ) comes mostly from the perceived nature of the tasks and role of the monarch: A monarch most usually was, first and foremost, a military protector.

Regardless, intensive piggeries have been increasingly criticized in preference of free range systems.

The ISTPs, with their preference for extraverted sensing, love understanding physical, mechanical systems.

Ranked ballots allow voters to rank candidates in order of preference, while ballots for first-past-the-post systems only allow voters to select one candidate for each position.

In explaining her position in regard to capitalism, she says she has a " marked personal preference for capitalism as the most productive, fair and sensible economic system on the face of the earth ," but also recognizes that the free market permits other kinds of systems as well.

Some systems give a preference to certain transactional methods over other methods for testing prices.

Some systems give preference to a specific method of testing prices.

The Gibbard – Satterthwaite theorem, named after Allan Gibbard and Mark Satterthwaite, is a result about the deterministic voting systems that choose a single winner using only the preferences of the voters, where each voter ranks all candidates in order of preference.

Arrow's impossibility theorem is a similar theorem that deals with voting systems designed to yield a complete preference order of the candidates, rather than simply choosing a winner.

In order to make them more compatible with systems that depend on magnetic north, magnetic north is often chosen, at the pilot's preference.

( The preference for the word " reduction " here instead of " rewriting " constitutes a departure from the uniform use of " rewriting " in the names of systems that are particularizations of ARS.

Other systems, typically Unix and related, consider shortcuts to be a user's prerogative, and that they should be changeable to suit individual preference.

MOJO HD aired select NBA TV games in HD, when many cable providers did not yet carry NBA TV HD ; games were blacked out on systems which did not carry NBA TV, or if the game aired in a team's market, where the team's broadcaster received preference.

Recommender systems or recommendation systems ( sometimes replacing " system " with a synonym such as platform or engine ) are a subclass of information filtering system that seek to predict the ' rating ' or ' preference ' that a user would give to an item ( such as music, books, or movies ) or social element ( e. g. people or groups ) they had not yet considered, using a model built from the characteristics of an item ( content-based approaches ) or the user's social environment ( collaborative filtering approaches ).

" He believed the reaction highlighted Australia's general malaise ; he deplored the emphasis on the short term and the preference for patching up decaying and unprofitable systems, ignoring imaginative plans for the future.

Exceptions to the Radio Quiet Zone restrictions are usually determined on a case-by-case basis, with preference given to public safety concerns, such as remote alarm systems, repeaters for first responders, and NOAA Weather Radio.

These systems are called off-grid power systems and may be used in preference to on-grid systems for a variety of reasons.

However, as of early 2007, the only official Chinese policy related to WAPI is a " government preference " for WAPI in government and government-funded systems.

The AGM postulates are equivalent to several different conditions on the revision operator ; in particular, they are equivalent to the revision operator being definable in terms of structures known as selection functions, epistemic entrenchments, systems of spheres, and preference relations.

The pre-print era had fewer literate people: languages lacked fixed systems of orthography, and the handwritten manuscripts that survive often show words spelled according to regional pronunciation and to personal preference.