Sentence examples for has traditionally preferred from inspiring English sources

That is something of a departure for SBC, which has traditionally preferred to control its ventures outright.

Oil-rich Saudi Arabia, a close ally of Washington, has traditionally preferred to operate in the shadows through checkbook diplomacy.

In addition he gives prominence to the humanitarian role played by the 22 foreigners, mostly missionaries and business people, who stayed behind in Nanjing, an aspect of the massacre that Communist Party propaganda has traditionally preferred to gloss over.

His distaste for this tour is also the sign of a man who has traditionally preferred to take his teams to the forested hills of Veluwe, in the central eastern Netherlands, for pre-season.

Though Saudi Arabia has traditionally preferred to push its agenda through checkbook diplomacy, it has taken a far more muscular approach since the Arab Spring, offering generous support to its allies, like Egypt, while working to oppose adversaries like President Bashar al-Assad of Syria and the Muslim Brotherhood.

However, the Indian system of decision-making has traditionally preferred opacity.

Other cities have lovingly preserved their charming waterfronts and quaint business districts; we have traditionally preferred to raze the old and build something more profitable.

Last year, a wave of suicide bombings across the country targeted Sufi shrines, the places millions of Pakistanis have traditionally preferred to mosques.

Days after the N.C.A.A. cleared Cam Newton to play despite finding his father broke the organization's rules, Julie Roe Lach, the N.C.A.A.'s vice president for enforcement, said it had traditionally preferred to "fall on the side of the student-athlete".

The initiative is intended less to raise circulation numbers than to steal away a large portion of the consumer advertisers — like high-end retailers, luxury goods makers and residential real estate companies — that have traditionally preferred The Times.

The club serves sly, old-fashioned precision cocktails — the kind seemingly in endless supply from Los Angeles to Berlin, but practically nonexistent in Paris, where drinkers have traditionally preferred wine, beer and weightless aperitifs like sweet cordials.