Thus, regardless of their original host and location, Sardinian weevils generally preferred to oviposit on Cynara, or showed no preference (z-test, z = −9.4, P < 0.0001).
Brachytherapy — the insertion of radioactive seeds — was generally preferred to external beam radiation.
He's generally preferred to Javier Hernández, the country's all-time top goalscorer, these days.
During the war and interregnum, royalists and peacemakers generally preferred to forget him.
Until recently, humans generally preferred to interact with each other via the medium of wars (see above).
During the Civil War, doctors generally preferred to work with the nuns as they were known to be excellent nurses.
The French generally preferred to make their figures in biscuit, an unglazed porcelain which was used both in soft paste and then hard paste.
The French used deep buried cable to some extent but generally preferred to string their telephone lines on wooden supports set against the walls of deep open trenches.
Americans have generally preferred to sue when faced with the effects of risk, rather than wait for lawmakers to deal with their concerns.
But Mr. Feehery said Mr. Hastert generally preferred to address tax cuts piecemeal, believing that they had greater political appeal in bite-size chunks than when sold as a single package whose big price tag dominates the debate.
He was a skinny 18-year-old, with long, unkempt hair – a sort of proto-hippie – and although he generally preferred to go barefoot, on this occasion he wore strappy Jesus sandals.
