Sentence examples for instead of preferred from inspiring English sources

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In fact, hitting one dragon that you fully participated in due to pro-rata and ownership percentage more than makes up for any losses incurred by owning common shares instead of preferred.

Nevertheless, the decision to use SMQs instead of preferred terms (PTs) may have had an impact on the results.

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There are, in fact, those who would go right on eating food, for which Mr. Meigs had paid, instead of preferring to starve to death in a quiet and decent manner.

The MAM algorithm has to be only slightly modified to determine an MDM: instead of preferring to include edges with a lower assortative weight (to maximize the assortative index of the maximal matching), we need to include the uncovered edge with the largest assortative weight (to minimize the assortative index of the maximal matching) in each iteration.

But Fidler, who also championed 2007 legislation that required city high schools to use wooden bats instead of aluminum, preferred to have the P.S.A.L. tackle the issue "as opposed to having a rule imposed".

Spinning and weaving, though well-known, remain at an elementary level since most tropical forest Indians, instead of dressing, prefer to paint the body and to embellish it with all sorts of adornments.

"The Donald" is an odd hybrid bird with a large bill and big mouth who, instead of quacking, prefers to tweet, squawk, screech, shriek, and squeal.

Instead of boiling, prefer steaming.

Instead he preferred the writings of William Cobbett and Sergius Stepniak, although also read the critique of socialism produced by John Stuart Mill.

Instead of the wine preferred by their officers, legionnaires downed whiskey mixed with an energy drink called Long Horn.

Instead of helping, he preferred to weather the economic storm confident that before long things would improve, as they always had in the past.

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