Sentence examples for is generally preferable from inspiring English sources
"Having a wholly non-executive board is generally preferable for investment trusts.
No one gets exactly what he wants from Chapter 11 — creditors get a haircut, employees get laid off, and shareholders (usually) get zilch — but it is generally preferable to selling off a company's assets piece by piece.
The second choice is generally preferable, despite the increased paperwork, because including the income on the parents' return will increase their adjusted gross income, which for affluent taxpayers may result in the phase-out of more deductions, credits and exemptions.
Accelerating ordinary income with an 83(b) election can be risky, as there is no guarantee that the stock will appreciate in value, and it is generally preferable to defer paying taxes as long as possible.
The process may be repeated as necessary; this is generally preferable to osteotomy.
In solving many practical mathematical programming applications, it is generally preferable to formulate several quantifiably good alternatives that provide very different approaches to the particular problem.
Yes indeed, short words are generally preferable to long ones, plain speech to ornate, simple structure to Ciceronian complexity.
Prefix codes are always uniquely decipherable, and they are generally preferable to nonprefix codes for communication because of their simplicity.
And Germany's reunited capital is following in the footsteps of New York and London, where imported cuisines are generally preferable to indigenous ones.
Every town seemed to have two restaurants, a fast-food franchise and Mom's, and the franchise, I learned, was generally preferable.
He added it was "generally preferable to pay a financial price than the price of a human life or a political price consisting of [submitting to] blackmail by pulling out troops".
