preferential

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• The division’s staffers are supposed to adhere to a strict ethics code and forgo any public partisan activities because such actions could imply preferential treatment for a candidate or party and jeopardize the commission’s credibility.

• It offered legacy admissions in the form of preferential or priority status to descendants of the sold slaves and, in 2019, promised to raise $400,000 per year for their benefit.

• Instead, it placed quotas on immigrants from the Western Hemisphere and instituted a preferential system that prioritized immigrants of the professional class and those with specialized skills.

• There are complaints of preferential treatment of major arts groups — including Arena Stage, Studio Theatre and the National Building Museum — at the expense of smaller groups and organizations of color.

• They’ve extended that to say everyone who we work with that is like us will get preferential treatment.

• Hall even made it clear that his problem is less with the preferential admissions, but with the lack of transparency.

• Either way, part of the tragedy and poignancy of polio is its preferential spread to babies and toddlers.

• The preferential ballot will definitely favor Gravity, which I felt was a superior film anyway.

• “Crony capitalism,” for example, typically refers to preferential relationships between politicians and business interests.

• Jews enjoy preferential access to land ownership throughout most of the country.