It's preferable to wait to bestow this honor until someone is well beyond the possibility of committing crime or engaging in embarrassing behavior.
Dr. Dot Richardson can answer only that she still has the passion and she earned the opportunity and because a game not measured by time is preferable to waiting around for hers to be up.
That's why downloading and watching a crummy, fuzzy version of a first-run movie is preferable to waiting forever for the DVD or pay-per-view.
While we cannot definitively say that MET systems improve outcomes, it seems self-evident that the goal of identifying and treating patients early in the course of their illness is preferable to waiting until more serious signs and symptoms have developed.
But hope springs eternal, and some plaintiffs are being told that it would be preferable to wait.
Jan Kees de Jager, the Dutch finance minister, said: "It would be preferable to wait until after the elections.
The center's director, Michael Leiter, said that it would be preferable to wait for stronger confirmation of bin Laden's presence in Abbottabad.
There is always a risk at first foaling, especially if the mare is aged 3 years, so it may be preferable to wait and breed older mares.
In cases supposed to be primary idiopathic PRCA, it would be preferable to wait for at least a month before instituting specific treatment, with the rationale that 10 12% of PRCA patients run a short and self-limited course (Dessypris, 1988).
Overall, taking into account the ethical, legal, and social issues that might arise, participants agreed that, although genetic testing in early life might maximize coverage and uptake, it may be preferable to wait until individuals reach adulthood before offering sampling for adult-onset conditions.
