Sentence examples for has often preferred from inspiring English sources

Mourinho has often preferred the more experienced ones to execute his orders.

In an effort to skirt confrontation, the administration has often preferred the quieter route of regulatory rather than legislative change.

Talese says that, despite the fame of his larger-than-life portraits of larger-than-life people (Frank Sinatra, Joe DiMaggio), he has often preferred less exalted subjects.

Signs of increased hostility from a state that has often preferred to accommodate rather than confront the Brotherhood have persuaded many of its members of a need to retrench and lie low for the time being.

That matters because the TED conferences (TED stands for technology, entertainment and design, and is a not-for-profit global conference organization) are one of the obligatory stops on the itinerary of any self-regarding plutocrat, and in the past that constituency has often preferred its vision of the economic future served sunny-side up.

Whether it's our 28,000 troops currently protecting South Korea from the new North Korean thug Kim Jorg-un ourour brave servicemen and women fighting the wicked Taliban, America has always fought tyranny while the rest of the world has often preferred to hide their heads in the sand.

FROM Joyce to Beckett, Ireland's best storytellers have often preferred to describe their homeland from other parts of Europe.

In Britain we have often preferred the Conservatives, but switched to Tony Blair's Labour Party at two general elections.

From Hadrian's Wall to the Maginot Line to ballistic-missile defense, Emperors and Presidents have often preferred dramatic defensive innovations, even implausible ones, to incremental improvements.

But Brazil's leaders have often preferred to see their country as a "southern" power, a leader of the developing world.

Consumers have often preferred choosing their financial services à la carte — picking an interest-bearing checking account here, and a stock-trading site there.