Sentences with phrase «as first preference»

Overall, the groups ranked the Toyota as their first preference, and according to Beranger, «didn't see the car as a Camry».

There is also evidence that the number of university applicants identifying teaching as their first preference has been quite stable over recent years, suggesting that a growing number of students are entering teaching after failing to obtain a place in their course of first choice.

Phil Woolas will become the new norm as the pressure will be on especially Labour candidates to try and reach out to those voting BNP as their first preference.

Its officers therefore recommended support for Angela Eagle as first preference because of her unique record amongst women candidates in support of democracy in the party, of a policy - making process which was accessible to the party grassroots rather than one which was entirely based, in reality, in the leader's office, of the impartiality of party staff in internal democracy and of the party - union link.

More than 19 out of 20 of those who said they would vote Labour or Conservative under FPTP named the same party as their first preference under AV, as did nine out of ten UKIP voters.

The best indication that this is the case is the fact that, in the YouGov poll for the IPPR, for example, 96 % of Tory and 97 % of Labour voters are assumed to stick with their current parties as first preference.

But you're not ranking your favorite as your first preference.

For example, if it is known that popular choice A beats minor choice C, but loses to choice B, it might be worthwhile for some of A's supporters to insincerely list C as first preference to ensure it survives the process longer the B.

Of the 634 voters it spoke to who ranked Labour as their first preference, 49 % said they would prefer a minority government, compared to 30 % who wanted to see a coalition with the Liberal Democrats.

No way either would displace Ozil, Sanchez or Giroud as first preference in their respected positions bar injury in our current set - up.

But if that's true, aren't everyone's second preferences worth the same as first preferences?

The detailed YouGov results provide much information about second and subsequent preferences, although they predict a rather unrealistic low switch in allegiance in AV first preference votes from FPTP voting intentions — both Labour and Tories, for example, are predicted to retain 96 % of their FPTP voters as first preferences which must understate the switch to UKIP and the Greens, for example.

Not exact matches

A participating preferred stock enables an investor to first get a return of its dollar - for - dollar investment as a preference payment, before anyone else gets a single dollar, and then to continue to participate in the distribution of the remaining proceeds as a common stockholder based on its ownership percentage.

Last year, ECU was listed as the first - preference choice for 34 per cent of Year 12, the highest of WA's public universities.

«Our strong preference is for all 11 countries to join the first wave, but our focus is on bringing a new TPP agreement into force as soon as possible with those who are ready to move,» Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said in Tokyo last week.

Preferred stocks get various priorities such as in the event of bankruptcy, preference shareholders get paid first.

When we create content at IDC to support our clients» content - based marketing efforts, we first indentify our clients» target audience (buying persona) plus buyer cycle stage (i.e., general awareness / education, preference, purchase and post-purchase; within each stage there are specific tasks or «jobs» you prospects / customers need to accomplish such as, short list creation, business case development, final recommendation and decision, etc.) We also consider our clients ideal outcome or action they want their target prospect / customer to take once they interact with the content or messaging.

Trump made the comment a day after expressing his preference to hold what will be the first - ever U.S. - North Korea summit in the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea while saying a third - party country such as Singapore is also under consideration.

Another way of calculating the proportional reduction in the content rule, is to consider the combined effect of the two thresholds. An auto part can qualify as TPP - made with just 30 % TPP content. A vehicle can qualify as TPP - made if 45 % of its content originate within the TPP — including auto parts which only had minority TPP content in the first place. This «double jeopardy» effect means that the theoretical minimum regional content for a finished vehicle to qualify for TPP trade preferences would be only 13.5 % (equal to 30 % of 45 %).

My over arching point is and has been twofold: First, as ghastly as priestly abuse is, it is a statistically moot point in the big picture and two, seexual orientation is not related to age preference.

In our discussion we shall ask first what theological statements can be made on the subject of private prayer, examining afterwards if liturgical prayer (as distinct from the Eucharist and the administration of the sacraments with which we are not here concerned) can be preferred to it at all, and if so, what such a preference means for the practice of the Christian life.

First of all, in their attitudes toward legalized abortion, beliefs about abortion, and policy preferences pertaining to abortion, the members of those two groups, not surprisingly, are almost as different as they possibly could be.

The First Good, when it is understood as fulfillment of a natural potential, seems adequately suggested in the word «self» — hence my own preference for «self - perfection» as the nontheological version of this human fulfillment.

George Mason, a member of the Con - sti - tu - tion - al Convention and recognized as The Father of the Bill of Rights submitted this proposal for the wording of the First Amendment All men have an equal, natural and unalienable right to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience and that no particular sect or society of Christians ought to be favored or established by law in preference to others.

Its application means, first of all, that we can not regard things like sexual life style or sexual «preference» as a matter of no importance or as an area in which the individual is to have free reign.

«This update is timely as diets, eating patterns and consumer preferences have changed dramatically since the Nutrition Facts panel was first introduced.

As the leading advocate for female consumers, WomenCertified Inc., home of the Women's Choice Award, created the first national award based on the ratings and preferences of women.

One of the First Ladies of the BBQ competition world, Danielle Dimovski, AKA DivaQ, joins Scott via Skype and talks about her smoker and grill preferences, outdoor cooking pet peeves and favorite flavor combos, and also discusses her TV career as host on the Travel Channel's BBQ Crawl and contestant and barbecue judge on Destination America's BBQ Pitmasters.

The 27 year old has never looked capable of forging a spot as a first team regular at Arsenal and Wenger will seek to find a permanent buyer for the Swiss international in preference to sending him out for another loan spell.

Liverpool appear to still be his preference, although Milan have emerged as stiff competition for Jurgen Klopp with Vincenzo Montella hopeful that Zielinski can bolster his midfield ahead of his first season in charge.

The report by El Gol Digital suggests that the player's first preference was to move to the Bernabeu, and it really does not come as a surprise.

The hospital staff, all the way to my OB, were happy to oblige my preferences as long as there was no medical reason not to (for example, I preferred stitches to staples; OB said I was the first person who ever expressed a preference — and he had been practicing for 30 years).

Additional literature suggests that the acceleration of the obesity problem occurs in the first years of life as lifelong dietary intake patterns, eating habits, sleep routines, and food preferences are established.

Your instructions will depend on your individual situation — like whether you have a high - risk pregnancy or other complications, if this is your first baby, and how far you live from the hospital or birth center — as well as on your caregiver's personal preference about when to be notified.

First, try not to think of your child's learning style preference as a liability.

I think, first, there are baby items you should never accept as hand - me - downs and then there are others that I believe are just up to your personal preference.

Most opportunities for unusual results occur when there are options which collect significant first choice votes, but few second preferences, as in the political example I give above.

And we hope that the arguments in this article clarify the role of preferences as an essential first step for an accurate understanding of redistribution.

It's also possible for the FPTP winner to not be the same as the AV winner even when the AV winner was also ahead on first preferences.

A: No mystery; because the Conservative Party is traditionally the second choice of relatively few voters and they therefore wish to count weak second preferences as on a par with strong first preferences.

On AV, I think it is more complicated, as neither you nor I can say we know what the pattern of 1st preferences would be in the first AV General Election, still less do any of us know what the overall candidate and party system look like, and the way in which different candidates and parties might interact over two or three elections.

For example, seeing which candidates are declared elected on first preference votes alone can be shown as follows:

No less than 79 % of those whose first preference is independence named «devo max» as their second choice, as did two - thirds (66 %) of those who would prefer to see a continuation of the status quo.

Lansman is referring to the Blairite organisation that, he says, was able to command only a tiny share of internal Labour support by 2015, as evidenced by Liz Kendall's miserable 4.5 % of first - preference votes in the leadership election.

Instant runoff voting, also known as ranked - choice voting, allows voters to rank primary candidates in order of preference so that if one candidate does not cross the required threshold for victory, the candidate with the least number of votes is eliminated and the votes are redistributed based on the second choice selected by voters who had selected the eliminated candidate first, and so on until a winner emerges.

Although the Irish electoral system is classified as a proportional electoral system, the proportion of seats won by parties will not measure up exactly to their actual share of the first preference votes, mainly because geography has a very significant impact here.

The share of the first preference vote is, in fact, exactly the same as it was five years ago, when the last round of local elections was held.

This was seen as a swipe at the Labour First group, which is calling on Liz Kendall to ask her supporters to give their second - preference votes to Andy Burnham and Yvette Cooper to stop Corbyn.

And although the SNP's share of the first preference vote may have held steady across Scotland as a whole as compared with 2012, it has not held up everywhere.

Although it is not regarded as truly proportional by campaigners for electoral reform, AV is favoured by some because it maintains the constituency link, ensures elected MPs have the support of at least 50 per cent of voters and allows supporters of minority parties to express opinion through their first vote while giving their second preference to a mainstream party.