Sentence examples for british preferred from inspiring English sources

Moreover, the Belgians, Dutch, and French as well as the British preferred to introduce in their colonies laws imposing liability on employers rather than funded insurance schemes.

Generally, the British preferred to leave education to missions, which were given variable financial aid, usually from local and inadequate sources.

Nearly every club servant in Kolkata is Muslim, a tradition that started when the colonial British preferred them as khansamas – or house stewards – because they had fewer food taboos than Hindus.

Talleyrand was drawn to the outskirts of Bordeaux; Thomas Jefferson, who had recently devised a system strikingly like the metric system in the hope of introducing it in the United States, felt the Monticello area was more favorably situated; the British preferred London.

In Jennet Conant's coming book, "Tuxedo Park," about a social setting in which key scientists worked during World War II, the origin of radar is recounted: United States Army scientists used r.p.f., for "radio position finding," while the British preferred r.d.f., for "radio direction finding".

The British prefer Mr. Blobby.

The only difference is that the British prefer stammer over stutter.

The General pronounces his last name to rhyme with "bowell," while the British prefer to rhyme it with "bowl".

The British prefer Firoz because he has promised to let them build factories and he wears a tie.

Sadly, no UK attempt to replicate The West Wing has succeeded, largely because the British prefer their fictional politicians laughable or nasty (Yes, Prime Minister, The Thick of It) rather than decenct and serious.

(The French tend to favor elegant icons, like the delicate Art Nouveau ironwork of the Paris subway and those dainty blue and white enamel street signs, but the pretension-phobic British prefer theirs to look pragmatic).