Sentence examples similar to empty preferred from inspiring English sources

He had lost an eye in childhood, but preferred an empty socket to a glass replacement.

Timor was once an optician in Helsinki before he decided that he had had enough of close-up examinations of other people's eyes and preferred the empty and endless horizon of the north.

In contrast to the clear alteration of territorial aggression in TG versus WT male mice of both strains, the sociability test (mouse preferred over empty cage) revealed entirely normal behavior, indistinguishable between TG and WT (Fig  2B).

"It's about honoring our heroes," he said, looking around at the near-empty grounds that he preferred to see as jammed as they were in 2007.

Owners often prefer empty flats because they can be traded more easily.

Gracie Mansion -- still well protected by New York's Finest -- sits mostly empty, since Mr. Bloomberg prefers his own house on East 79th Street.

"If you go to a farm it's not uncommon to see 30 hens clumped together and the grass around them empty, because they prefer to stick together for safety," Coward said.

However, tRNA binding to an empty bacterial ribosome prefers the P site, so this structure does not represent the initial binding of a full-length IRES to a eukaryotic ribosome.

In addition we establish the existence of polynomial time methods for systems having bounded treewidth when deciding the following: whether a given (set of) arguments is credulously accepted; if the system has a non-empty preferred extension; has a stable extension; is coherent; has at least one sceptically accepted argument.

"I preferred sex on an empty stomach, and to eat alone with a good book".

Generally, Ĉ-statistics is preferred because it avoids empty groups, despite being heavily dependent on sample size and grouping criterion [ 1].