Sentence examples for he was preferable from inspiring English sources

But she said she would work to keep him in office because he was preferable to Mr. Schwarzenegger, whom she called a "phony independent".

Action, he told them, was preferable to hesitation, and so they laid low the mob and pressed reform on Wall Street.

Death, for him, was preferable.

While he agreed that civilian politicians were corrupt, he said that was preferable to martial law.

He said the school would help her get into the University of Oxford, which he had decided was preferable to Harvard; she later would get her doctorate there.

He said this was preferable to trying to redact existing orders.

Therefore, he said, it was preferable to spend the resources available to him prosecuting these general crimes.

But he said it was preferable to working at home and gave him a chance to network and socialize.

Most Eurocrats had thought that the re-election of Nicolas Sarkozy, difficult as he may be, was preferable to the election of his challenger, François Hollande.

He explained why it was preferable for the foil to bend down after a solid hit.

"There were once those who said that Sharm el-Sheikh without peace was preferable," he said.