Preferential Sentence Examples

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  • Mr Chamberlain himself had proposed only to take it off as regards colonial, and not foreign corn, - thus inaugurating a preferential system.

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  • He saw the true field for commercial expansion within the Empire, and therefore advocated preferential duties.

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  • As a ufirst customer your increased overdraft will benefit from preferential rates.

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  • It's worth enquiring whether the linked company offers preferential terms for referred clients.

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  • The traders, too, get little, while preferential treatment is meted out to the clergy and the barons.

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  • Prior to the date of these protocols, an attempt had been made by Great Britain, Germany and Italy to enforce their claims by blockade, and a further question arose as between these three powers on the one hand, and the United States of America, France, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden and Norway, and Mexico (all of whom had claims against Venezuela, but had abstained from hostile action) on the other hand, as to whether the blockading powers were entitled to preferential treatment.

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  • Whether you play them or not is preferential; as a collector, just having them is good enough.

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  • Signs of a preferential attraction to others like the self also appear at an early age.

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  • The sad truth is that some people subconsciously discriminate against overweight people, while giving slender people preferential treatment.

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  • The Administrator will now be able to distribute funds to secured and preferential creditors.

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  • The rights of secured creditors of the debtor, and of preferential creditors of the debtor, and of preferential creditors, cannot be affected without the agreement of the creditors concerned.

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  • However, Ward Room patrons and restaurant diners do receive preferential reserved seating.

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  • Once in the CNS, BDV exhibits a preferential tropism for the limbic system, including the hippocampus.

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  • The sulfur caused microstructural changes and the presence of sulfide particles, which acted as preferential fatigue initiation sites.

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  • In addition, three other autonomous prefectures are allowed to enjoy the preferential policies the state has adopted for the western regions.

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  • Sensitivity to stimuli of first and second order motion was measured, using a two alternative forced choice preferential looking procedure.

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  • Any unpaid balance of a preferential debt in the joint estate is not preferential in the separate estates.

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  • Finance In addition, Charles Wells offers a range of flexible and highly preferential financial packages to assist in establishing Charles Wells pubs overseas.

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  • We have access to very preferential terns for the insurance of let properties.

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  • The rights of the Ordinary Shareholder to dividends are neither preferential nor cumulative.

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  • Services scheme has fund providing preferential the contract a company.

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  • In addition Members have access to all properties within the collection of hotels - all at a preferential tariff.

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  • Preferential dock charges are prohibited and a port fund established under the act.

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  • The "gaming queue" is where you add all the games you would like to rent, and GameAccess allows you to put them in preferential "ranked" order.

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  • Many women opt for a standard bikini wax because it allows for preferential cuts and styles.

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  • Mansel charged Kant with inconsistency in this preferential treatment of the moral consciousness; all our knowledge, even in moral things, was " relative " and was " regulative."' But, whether consistent or inconsistent, Kant was deliberate in differentiating between the ethical and the theoretic knowledge of man.

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  • The segregation may be geographical, or may be the result of preferential mating, or of seasonal mating, and its effects plainly can be made no more of than proximate or empirical laws of differentiation, of great importance in codifying and simplifying the facts to be explained.

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  • Critics are saying that if Cameron Douglas does receive a more lenient sentence other than the mandatory 10 years, that it will be yet another example of the rich and famous getting preferential treatment when it comes to criminal cases.

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  • This convention was notable for its grant of preferential treatment (in general, a rebate of 25% on the customs already levied) to imports from the United Kingdom.

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  • Lastly, there is a class of difficulties which might arise from preferential treatment of trade from different countries.

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  • This preferential and discriminating policy, combined with other causes which cannot here be discussed, resulted in 'the Granger legislation of.

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  • This utterance led to an idea that he was inclined to consider favourably the proposal for a preferential tariff, his earlier enthusiasm for Imperial Federation making his support an interesting political possibility.

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  • He advocated the creation of a permanent deliberative imperial council, and favoured preferential trade relations between the United Kingdom and the other members of the empire; and in later years he took an active part in advocating the cause of tariff reform and colonial preference.

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  • A further increase of £26,000,000 a year in the trade with the colonies might be obtained by a preferential tariff, and this meant additional employment at home for 166,000 workmen, or subsistence for a population of a far larger number.

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  • A careful and even brilliant financier, and a keen debater, he became known as a strong believer in protection for Canadian industries and in preferential trade within the British empire.

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  • Laurier made his first visit to Great Britain on the occasion of Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee (1897), when he received the grand cross of the Bath; he then secured the denunciation of the Belgian and German treaties and thus obtained for the colonies the right to make preferential trade arrangements with the mother country.

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  • The first public intimation of his views was given in a speech to his constituents at Birmingham (May 15, 1903), when he outlined a plan for raising more money by a rearranged tariff, partly to obtain a preferential system for the empire and partly to produce funds for social reform at home.

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  • The trade of the province, which had grown from about 800,000 in 1870 to about 3,000,000 in 1905, is largely with Portugal and in Portuguese bottoms. Between 1893 and 1904 the percentage of Portuguese as compared with foreign goods entering the province increased from 43 to 201 70, a result due to the preferential duties in force.

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  • These include petroleum refineries, iron foundries, distilleries, flour mills, sugar refineries, sawmills, paper mills, chemical works, glass works, soap and candle works, &c. A law passed in 1887 provided that any one undertaking to found an industrial establishment with a capital of at least £2000, or employing at least 25 workmen (of whom two-thirds should be Rumanians), should be granted 12 acres of state land, exemption for a term of years from all direct taxes, freedom from customs dues for machinery and raw material imported, exemption from road taxes, reduction in cost of carriage of materials on the state railways, and preferential rights to the supply of manufactured articles to the state.

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  • The correspondence between Mr Chamberlain and Mr Balfour (September 9th and 16th) was published, and presented the latter in the light of a sympathizer with some form of fiscal union with the colonies, if practicable, and in favour of retaliatory duties, but unable to believe that the country was yet ready to agree to the taxation of food required for a preferential tariff, and therefore unwilling to support that scheme; at the same time he encouraged Mr Chamberlain to test the feeling of the public and to convert them by his missionary efforts outside the government.

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  • Mr Chamberlain pointed out that he was committed to a preferential scheme involving new duties on food, and could not remain in the government without prejudice while it was excluded from the party programme; remaining loyal to Mr Balfour and his general objects, he could best promote this course from outside, and he suggested that the government might confine its policy to the "assertion of our freedom in the case of all commercial relations with foreign countries."

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  • In 1909 a direct primary elections law was passed which required a majority of all votes to nominate, and, to make a majority possible, provided for preferential (or second-choice) voting, such votes to be canvassed and added to the first-choice vote for each candidate if there be no majority by the first-choice vote.

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  • In bringing about a system of penny postage throughout the empire; in forwarding the construction of the Pacific cable to secure close and safe imperial telegraphic connexion; in creating rapid and efficient lines of steamship communication with the motherland and all the colonies; in granting tariff preference to British goods and in striving for preferential treatment of inter-imperial trade; in assuming responsibility for imperial defence at the two important stations of Halifax and Esquimalt, - Canada, under the guidance of Sir Wilfrid Laurier and his party, took a leading part and showed a truly national spirit.

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  • The more aggressive protectionists among Mr Chamberlain's supporters had lately become very confident, and Mr Balfour plainly repudiated "protection" in so far as it meant a policy aiming at supporting or creating home industries by raising home prices; but he introduced a new point by declaring that an Imperial Conference would be called to discuss with the colonies the question of preferential tariffs if the Unionist government obtained a majority at the next general election.

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  • Colonel Denison was one of the founders of the "Canada First" party, which did much to shape the national aspirations from 1870 to 1878, and was a consistent supporter of imperial federation and of preferential trade between Great Britain and her colonies.

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  • At the peace in 1815, however, only four were spared, namely, Frankfort, Bremen, Hamburg and Lubeck, these being practically the only ones still in a sufficiently flourishing and economically independent position to warrant such preferential treatment.

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