Sentence examples for openly prefer from inspiring English sources

The staff of the National Museum would openly prefer it if nobody visited at all.

It is against the spirit of our non-discriminating times to openly prefer one sort of music to another, so let's just say that hearing grand orchestral music in a public place is exhilarating in a way that hearing popular music never can be, if only because, in a popular music age, a full orchestra is less familiar to our ears.

Some housing is for Hindus only; some employers openly prefer Muslims over Hindus or Christians.

Pagans were openly preferred for high official appointments, and Christians were expelled from the army and prohibited from teaching classical literature and philosophy.

Jobs, after months of openly preferring Forstall, once made a show of ignoring him and talking to Fadell — "just to fuck with him," an engineer tells Vogelstein.

She remembered being treated cruelly by Olivier, who openly preferred his then-lover Vivien Leigh for the role, and being ignored by the largely British cast.

Until 2003 they foundered on the opposition of the obdurate Turkish-Cypriot leader, Rauf Denktash, who openly preferred the idea of an independent north and in 1983 proclaimed the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus, which was recognised only by Turkey.

I covered Kasparov's ascent to the world chess championship against the grandmaster openly preferred by the Kremlin, Anatoly Karpov, in matches that became a memorable ideological contest between the audacious upstart and the dull company man.

The political threat to Mr. Sharon is from the right, and specifically his own party, Likud, whose central committee openly prefers Benjamin Netanyahu, the former prime minister, who has positioned himself to the right of Mr. Sharon.

TotalFinaElf is itself the product of such a takeover, involving Elf-Aquitaine and TotalFina, a Belgian-French company that the French government openly preferred over rival foreign bidders like Royal Dutch/Shell.

Nick should just dump Taylor already since, bless his heart, he openly prefers the immature brain and mature mammaries of Corinne.