Sentence examples for have often preferred from inspiring English sources
FROM Joyce to Beckett, Ireland's best storytellers have often preferred to describe their homeland from other parts of Europe.
But Brazil's leaders have often preferred to see their country as a "southern" power, a leader of the developing world.
In Britain we have often preferred the Conservatives, but switched to Tony Blair's Labour Party at two general elections.
Consumers have often preferred choosing their financial services à la carte — picking an interest-bearing checking account here, and a stock-trading site there.
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.
PARIS — President François Hollande inaugurated a new Holocaust memorial center on Friday with an address that underscored the direct approach he has taken to France's collaborationist past, a grim and still uncomfortable chapter that French leaders and politicians have often preferred to skirt.
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.
