Sentence examples for decided to prefer from inspiring English sources

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.

A fan of Shostakovich does not, usually at least, wish she could just decide to prefer Andrew Lloyd Webber.

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.

"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.

By then, millions of Muslims had decided to settle in Europe, preferring the social segregation and racial discrimination they found in the west to political and economic turmoil at home.

However, as McCaw had only recently returned from injury he decided to decline the offer, preferring to focus on Super Rugby and the Rugby World Cup.

I decided to pursue stand up, preferring to have calluses on my soul and not my hands, but the three weeks working with Sam stuck with me.

So I decided to fight back — although I preferred to call it research.