Sentence examples for it preferred to from inspiring English sources

When the Iraqi regime wished to eliminate its opponents, Mr. Paz continued, "it preferred to use its own, more reliable, state security agents".

Avon and its board repeatedly rebuffed those advances, arguing that it preferred to pursue its stand-alone turnaround plan and pick its next chief executive.

The consolidation took hold in the mid-1990's after the grocery store chain Safeway Inc. told wholesalers in several states that it preferred to service its national chain with fewer wholesalers, rather than dealing with wholesalers city by city.

Nintendo is known for turning out hits with memorable characters like Donkey Kong and the Super Mario Bros., but it has had a reputation for cold-shouldering game software developers because it preferred to make both its hardware and software internally.

After World War I, France grieved its fallen; after World War II it preferred "to tune them out" and look to the future.

AS DRUG mobs go, Colombia's Cali gang had a gentlemanly reputation, of a sort: it preferred to buy rather than bomb its way to influence.

Like any bully, it prefers to pick off its antagonists one by one.

It prefers to traffic in its own reality.

It prefers to creep up on its prey and then pounce, like a snake.

Rather than admit that, it prefers to attack the credibility of its critics.

It prefers to use the assembled line of gig-goers as its beacon.