Sentence examples for had preferred using from inspiring English sources

The doctrine of the British cavalry had been highly influenced by their experiences in the Second Boer War fifteen years earlier, during which one commander had preferred using irregular units to the professional cavalry regiments.

Taylor said that this includes staff, such as education psychologists, some of whom in the past have preferred using paper files to carry out their work.

I would have preferred using the outside 220-volt outlet I had installed nearly a decade ago to "quick-charge" the old GM EV-1, equipped with heavy nickel-metal hydride batteries.

Otherwise, I would have preferred using a horizontal bar chart to allow room for the full names of the exhibitions.

Ideally we would have preferred using a female translator but this was not possible for practical reasons.

Initially not all members of the team were keen to use the PDA-mobile phone device as they would have preferred using the traditional paging system owing to the reluctance to learn how to operate a new device.

The present study showed that although most parents felt comfortable with the child possibly searching for identifying information, there was one parent who would have preferred using an anonymous donor.

I had always been told that Girumuhatse killed with a machete, but he said that he had preferred to use a masu, a nail-studded club.

Mr. Su said that President Chen's interior ministry had proposed at midnight to send in national forces to disperse the crowd, but that the Nationalists had preferred to use municipal police more directly under their control.

But for months, Republicans had preferred to use the Lynch nomination as a bludgeon in various battles with Democrats over issues with deep partisan divides, such as immigration and abortion.

I've always preferred using new American or French oak barrels over other industry standards.