51.   Laws that gave whites preferences were opposed by the NAACP and its followers in the courts, at lunch counters, on city buses and in the streets.

52.   Many European countries give preferences to women, in an attempt to increase their representation in the workplace.

53.   Members of disadvantaged groups should be given preference in hiring and admissions in order to correct for past inequities.

54.   Many who oppose affirmative action define it as giving a preference to someone only because of skin color.

55.   Most black-run IT firms survive by doing business with the government or with state-owned firms, which give preference to black tenders.

56.   Mexico gives preference to wines produced in Chile and has rebuffed U.S. calls to lower tariffs on American wine.

57.   Now Franco says the Housing Authority will give preference to the working poor over welfare recipients in filling vacancies.

58.   Nowadays, Caribbean immigrants are given no preference by the Ethiopian authorities, but must get resident and working visas like other foreigners.

59.   On the other side are health-care professionals who say that patients whose livers fail through no fault of their own should be given preference over alcoholics.