Roland Barthes once said he had decided to prefer photography to cinema, and he was in good company, with Philippe Sollers, Brassaï and Proust, among others.
Considering advantages and disadvantages of the two kinds of transcriptomes, we decided to prefer the in silico transcriptome for the identification of putative orthologs between U. gibba and U. vulgaris.
That's what Harry's parents decide to do when Harry prefers acting like a dog to more boylike behavior.
I might decide to paint daylight, but I prefer a moodier palette.
He decided to forgo curtains, preferring that the Manhattan skyline always be visible.
Michael Strahan, whom the Giants considered wooing out of retirement after Osi Umenyiora sustained a season-ending knee injury last Saturday night, has decided to remain retired, preferring to stay in the broadcast booth.
However, it is still up to researchers to decide whether they prefer to use the same parameters for all the participants, adapt the parameters on a participant basis, or rather have different input parameters for different groups of participants featuring different levels of data quality (as we did in our validation section).
"This is a gigantic risk, so we decided to say this year we prefer he doesn't play," said Donnie Walsh, the team president.
Tim Derbyshire, the owner of On the Beat Records — a snug, vinyl collector's shop on Hanway Street in London — has decided to retire but would prefer not to just pack up and go.
"First, Trevor Birch (administrator) named Portpin as preferred bidder, then, before the Football League was given any time to actually assess our bid, Trevor Birch decided to suddenly withdraw our preferred bidder status the same day, without any credible reasoning.
