Sentence examples for instance preferred from inspiring English sources

The artists of the Northern Renaissance, for instance, preferred to paint naked women with elegant, slender and tapering, small-breasted bodies: just look, for example, at the way that Lucas Cranach the Elder depicted Eve before the Tree of Knowledge in a panel of 1526 now in the Courtauld Gallery in London.

For instance, preferred shares are issued in perpetuity, and subordinated debt is not obligated to pay interest unless the bank has profits.

Maybe Vogel, for instance, prefers another team.

An Ambrose Bierce Companion (2001), for instance, prefers Gwinnett.

Villagers may for instance prefer local tanks and wells to 'improved' government-supplied piped water.

Literally, often: she won't come out at Christmas, for instance, preferring to stay in and watch box sets.

The yellow fever mosquito, for instance, prefers the hot and humid climate in Florida and the southeastern part of the country.

Citicorp, for instance, prefers to lend on hardware it can repossess and sell in a pinch, "because, really, at the end of the day, software is worth nothing," said Sally Wunsch, a saleswoman with Citicorp's commercial financing division in New York.

Managers may, for instance, prefer to retain the informal practices of a small company, knowing that this way of life is inherent in the organization's limited size, not in their congenial Personalities.

Treating an artist right, Mr. Lockwood said, can go a long way toward ensuring a return visit -- the pianist George Winston, for instance, prefers to rehearse from midnight till dawn, so the staff makes sure he can get into the theater then.

How could Robert Penn Warren, for instance, prefer Kit Morton's plain dying-grandmother story to Lance Leavitt's stream-of-consciousness monologue from the viewpoint of a condemned man smoking his last cigarette while pouring daringly profane contempt over the judgment of a world that punishes you for one measly murder while ignoring the murder of millions?