Sentence examples for if we preferred from inspiring English sources

It was as if we preferred to outsource our worries to our military prisons and drone attacks.

Our waiter – precise; rather priestly – told us that we were welcome to choose from the menu but that, if we preferred, "Dan", who was in the kitchen that night, could put together a tasting menu for us.

One recent evening, Kim Cheng, one of the owners and the designer of the space, good-naturedly canvassed our table and those nearby to see if we preferred the red or blue LED ceiling lighting (red won out).

Even if we preferred 4 × MIC as PK end-point in this study, we did not have enough data to compare the efficacy of these two strategies in the human setting, and a prospective study evaluating the different β-lactams concentrations in the treatment of severe infections is necessary.

If we prefered to relive the big day via video, we could do it for $35 per cassette.

We might date this decline from our military failure in Vietnam, or, if we prefer, more recently to the debacle in Iraq.

It's also perfectly all right if we prefer to go on believing these guys actually do hate each other's guts.

We are now, it seems to me, in a position to answer our final question the question about "man's stature," or (if we prefer to speak a little less portentously and more accurately) "modern Western man's self-image".

Only if we prefer the black-and-white certainties of hagiography to the convincingly human portrayal of a charismatic, contradictory individual who was, as Guy puts it, "as prickly as he was smooth.

It does us credit if we prefer putting up with them to seeing the tentacles of rights-annihilating power reach still further into the bowels (though this, in this case, would be the apt location) of our polity.

"The new capital provides us the flexibility to grow organically or, if we prefer, through more acquisitions.