Sentence examples for been preferable to settle from inspiring English sources

His observation that Mancini's men had great scope because his own team kept going on the attack was Ferguson's tacit statement that it would have been preferable to settle for losing by a commonplace margin.

Still, that would have been preferable to what happened.

It's considered preferable to settle out of court instead.

But if willing compliance is not forthcoming, then society must settle for second-best unwilling compliance—second-best unwillinge to noncompliance since

Evolution is preferable to revolution.

Surely that's preferable to gin & milk.

Evolution is preferable to judicial fiat.

That fantasy is preferable to the truth.

Because anyone is preferable to Bibi.

Which is preferable to the blind community?

American hegemony is preferable to fundamentalist Islamist hegemony, just as it was preferable to Soviet hegemony.