Sentence examples for have preferred him from inspiring English sources

I would have preferred him to face justice.

"Had he been more experienced, I might have preferred him less," Mr. Vidal said.

He was gay and in many ways, the lobby, certainly Grey, would have preferred him.

"We would have preferred him to have a smaller but secure job, where he was safe and we were, too".

The Dodgers chased Girardi before signing Torre, and deep down, the Yankees might have preferred him, too.

I would have preferred him to be more selfish, but in the end one admired his modest steadfastness.

To a large extent Mr Obama has tried to avoid such errands himself, by placing strict limits on the intervention in Libya and surge in Afghanistan, and by ignoring his more liberal supporters who would've preferred him to drive tougher (perhaps impossible) bargains on health care, taxes and the budget.But a liberal pragmatist like Mr Obama need not give up on ideological goals entirely.

Liddell: You know, if he [Silva] was going to clown him [Demian Maia], I would have preferred he try to fight him for three rounds then clown him for the last two, not clown him from the get-go.

Some sources state that he also studied with Kodály, but in his memoirs Solti recalled that Kodály, whom he would have preferred, turned him down, leaving him to study composition first with Albert Siklós and then with Dohnányi.

He said they would have preferred for him to have been tried as war criminal.

"I think the American people would have preferred having him do the work that he was elected to do, which is go to work and get people back to work".