Sentence examples for greatly preferable from inspiring English sources

Of course, new construction, especially of the owner-occupied sort, is greatly preferable to trash-filled vacant lots and crack-infested abandoned buildings.

"We are glad to see the fundamental recognition of the select committee that 'self-regulation of the press is greatly preferable to statutory regulation and should continue'".

Commenting on the report, Stephen Abell, Director of the PCC, said: "We are glad to see the fundamental recognition of the Select Committee that 'self-regulation of the press is greatly preferable to statutory regulation, and should continue'.

This end, he finds, is greatly preferable to the shallow certainties of religion, because she is still "doing practical work... educating young doctors / or helping researchers outwit the disease that outwitted her".

He said this was greatly preferable to Mitt Romney's support for a so-called territorial tax system, in which the overseas profits of American corporations would escape United States taxation altogether.

The admonishment "Don't just do something; stand there!" reminds us that we should stop and think before we act, that there are many instances in which doing nothing is greatly preferable to doing something.

If the across-session drift in the location-parameter estimates is small in comparison to other noise sources, this second method may be preferable to the first due to the greatly reduced number of parameters.

Having observers arrive unannounced would have been preferable from a methodological standpoint, but would have greatly reduced the probability of finding the CHW at home and available.

Furthermore, although a direct measure would theoretically be preferable, the lack of standardized insulin assay [ 36] greatly limits the clinical utility of that approach for identifying insulin-resistant persons.

Meanwhile, the hydrocarbon distribution of the catalyst was greatly improved for after the catalyst being scaled up, and the distribution of hydrocarbon products become much preferable.

But now it's becoming more evident that a dumb glass box is preferable to a dumb masonry box, or a dumb collage box, and that, in any case, technology has greatly expanded the expressive potential of glass.