1.   Also, while the country polls revealed an overwhelming preference for realistic images, Net users went strongly in the other direction.

2.   Northwest had earlier banned smoking on flights to London, Frankfurt and Paris, because market research had shown that was the overwhelming preference of passengers on those flights.

3.   One sure sign of a terrific fly-fisher is the overwhelming preference for presenting a fly from upstream of a fish.

4.   Polls show an overwhelming preference for leftist candidate Cuauhtemoc Cardenas.

5.   The market for specialty beers has been heavily tapped this year, as consumers have shown an overwhelming preference for custom-brewed beers.

6.   The overwhelming preference of terrestrial life for left-handed amino acids over the right-handed kind is not likely to be explained soon.

7.   There is an overwhelming preference in the region for U.S. goods and services.

8.   But opponents of statehood note that Puerto Ricans feel themselves a nation with their own culture and an overwhelming preference for Spanish over English.