Preference

Preference is only about how you rank your perceived options ex ante.

Income Vs. Happiness, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Preference is given to current/former sex workers (self-defined) but we are also considering submissions from allies, partners of workers, etc.

NYC Call For Performers: Sex Worker Cabaret on June 6th! « Bound, Not Gagged 2010

Preference is given to Idaho applicants attending Idaho schools who are in their junior or senior years of college (including graduating seniors).

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Preference is reached by quality, harmony, ingenuity, uniqueness; by a personal style which unites values of the craft with innovation and progress.

Reminiscences of the Group of Seven 1982

The relation of GATT to Imperial Preference is often not properly understood.

Imperial Preference and GATT 1961

Mr. Chamberlain's idea of a return Preference is absolutely right.

Canada's Position in the Empire 1905

Mr. Chamberlain's idea of a return Preference is absolutely right.

Canada's Position in the Empire 1905

Whether that Preference is to be met with a Reciprocal one from Great Britain is another question, and that must be answered by Great Britain from her own standpoint.

Canadian Industries, Preference and Reciprocity 1904

Now, Imperial Preference is not the same as Imperialism.

Preferential Trade 1903

We talked about it all the evening, turning it in every possible light, and we went to bed anxious for the morning, when we should surely hear from someone what Mr Hoggins thought and recommended; for, as Miss Matty observed, though Mr Hoggins did say "Jack's up," "a fig for his heels," and called Preference "Pref." she believed he was a very worthy man and a very clever surgeon.

Cranford Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837