predilections

Our cultural fads will affect certain predilections to color.

A Fascination of Colors « Colleen Anderson 2010

And each of us, as writers, has certain predilections.

Another Side to "Character Vulnerabilty" « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2008

And each of us, as writers, has certain predilections.

February « 2008 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2008

Guided in its conduct almost entirely by a policy of personal predilections, which is fitfully reinforced by the recollection of precedents, it is small wonder if such mountains of mistakes choke every Legation dossier.

The Fight for the Republic in China Bertram Lenox Simpson 1903

This attitude is not surprising, when one recalls his predilections and the conflict of evidence on essential points in the controversy.

Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics Allen Johnson 1900

While the new nones are, by definition, less attached to organized religion than other Americans, they do not seem to have discarded all religious beliefs or predilections.56 While observers sometimes describe them as “spiritual, not religious,” they themselves generally do not use that language.

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

Further muddying the outlook, Fed officials have offered conflicting signals on their policy predilections in recent weeks, with some pushing for a very aggressive stimulus and others highly skeptical of any additional accommodation.

The Fed Quantitative Easing: What You Can Expect The Huffington Post News Team 2010

Further muddying the outlook, Fed officials have offered conflicting signals on their policy predilections in recent weeks, with some pushing for a very aggressive stimulus and others highly skeptical of any additional accommodation.

The Fed Quantitative Easing: What You Can Expect The Huffington Post News Team 2010

Further muddying the outlook, Fed officials have offered conflicting signals on their policy predilections in recent weeks, with some pushing for a very aggressive stimulus and others highly skeptical of any additional accommodation.

The Fed Quantitative Easing: What You Can Expect Ryan McCarthy 2010

And of that decimal, each of the paired-off opponents tend to give their own predilections an overwhelming bias in sorting out new information.

Avoiding Truth, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009