I used it without an object; common usage has made that intransitive form correct, but it is not preferred in formal writing.
For patients it is not preferred to schedule their surgery earlier and certainly not later in the day.
Computerised assessment was valued by the professionals, but it was not preferred above the conventional paper assessment by the patients.
Although the effectiveness of intramedullary nail application as a treatment method is accepted in the tibia, femur and humerus [ 15], it is not preferred in forearm fractures due to high nonunion ratios and insufficient stability [ 4].
If you are 12 or under but you are very tall, you can wear tall boots but it is not preferred.
It supports the broad goal of defeating President Bush in November; it does not prefer Dr. Dean or any other candidate.
Good passing is not preferred, it's demanded.
The least one can say is that it did not, preferring to play a populist wait-and-see game aimed at consolidating its own power rather than defending the long-term interests of the country.
The classic indifference curve is drawn downward from left to right and convex to the origin, so that a consumer who is given a choice between any two points on it would not prefer one point over the other.
UPDATE does not converge before the 400th epoch as it does not prefer aggregators from the unexploited view and is influenced by the changes of the selected states.
