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availability of positions of leadership and the scope of social privileges in preference to males. Patriarchy requires that powerful women be discredited so that...

humane and sympathetic person, give a preference to the second universe? I myself cannot help feeling a preference for the second universe. J. J. C. Smart...

ranked voting electoral system can convert the ranked preferences of individuals into a community-wide (complete and transitive) ranking while also meeting...

irrationality. There can be no place for preference that is not rational preference, and all rational preferences necessarily coincide. Political activity...

principle, which, had they no other excellence, would secure to them the preference over those of all other countries. I mean — and some devout patriots will...

enthralling quote, but it might be best if trimmed, a matter of personal preference to just "And aha! Now, after the winter of 1945, Soviet forces captured...

Culture, p. xvii-xix. Minneapolis: University of Minneasota Press. "The preference for 'queer' represents, among other things, an aggressive impulse of generalizations;...

were the current coin given in payment; and for seals, blood was used in preference to wax. Could valid claims be thus constituted? Hardly. And if not, what...

Oakeshott, conservatism has been defined for its distrust of ideology, and a preference for pragmatism, compromise and what has gone before. David Cameron has...

do not lead to the creation of an open society. That class mouths its preference for a free, competitive society, while at the same time forcefully and...

contained any subjective value judgment, then this has amounted at most to a preference for freedom and progress rather than state control of the economy and...

perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice. He who does anything because it...

of an unsatisfied preference as putting a debit in a kind of moral ledger of debits and credits. The satisfaction of the preference merely cancels out...

persons actually give a relatively high place to gold on their scales of preference, in virtue of its direct significance to them.  It is established by custom...

content, multilingual online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers through a model of open collaboration, using a wiki-based...

citizens. ... They are not. The distinction between consumer and citizen preferences has long vexed the theory of public finance. Should the public economy...

gender, or preference for particular types of contact, but these differences do not define the relationship. What does is the preference of the wealthier...

when things are quiet, all is well. Subconsciously, we tend to give the preference to 'social peace,' though it be only apparent, because our lives and possessions...

being gay — a small mutation in the genome that determines our sexual preferences. Depending on what area of the world you were born and what time, it...

after it sanctioned a professor [Dr. Norman Wang] for criticizing racial preferences in an article in a prestigious academic journal. J. Robert Renner, "University...