It is impossible to know which came first: faith in elected police chiefs or a preference for tough crime-fighting.
His posture — shoulders and head reared slightly back, like George Washington in John Trumbull's painting of Washington resigning as Commander-in-Chief — projects a preference for input over output, even when he's letting loose his queries and dictums.
Both the Blancos and Ronaldo responded furiously on Tuesday at quotes made by Blatter on Friday in which the FIFA chief had expressed a preference for Messi and made fun of the Portuguese and, although the Swiss moved to apologize and play down the controversy, the player feels the remarks are indicative of institutional bias.
The foundation's chairman, Allen H. Neuharth, and its chief executive, Charles L. Overby, repeated their preference for selling the stock to the company, which publishes USA Today, or to an employee stock-option plan.
The site's 23-year-old founder and chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, has indicated his preference for staying independent and going public.
That the USA under the Trump administration is voluntarily relinquishing its leadership position as the chief advocate of free market in preference for an insular America remains difficult to comprehend. .
"The Japanese household developed a remarkable preference for cash," said Richard Jerram, chief economist at Macquarie Securities in Tokyo.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva formally articulated his preference for Dilma Rousseff, his chief of staff, to be the presidential candidate of the ruling Workers Partyy (PT).
Such an approach would have great appeal to Chief Justice Roberts, who has shown a preference for an oblique approach to a radical result.
President Bush's reported plan to nominate John Walters as chief of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy suggests a clear preference for military and law enforcement strategies, the traditional emphasis, as opposed to more effective treatment strategies.
The General leads the Iraq war in the style of a corporate chief executive, one influenced by the recent managerial preference for "flatness," or horizontal forms of communication.
