Sentence examples for openly preferred from inspiring English sources
Pagans were openly preferred for high official appointments, and Christians were expelled from the army and prohibited from teaching classical literature and philosophy.
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.
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.
Rosebery, a self-centred, reserved man, prone to depression, pessimism and insecurity, had a difficult relationship with his mother who had been distant and openly preferred his younger brother.
The staff of the National Museum would openly prefer it if nobody visited at all.
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.
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.
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.
Nick should just dump Taylor already since, bless his heart, he openly prefers the immature brain and mature mammaries of Corinne.
At PC, 48% of the combined student responders indicated that they accept evolution and express it openly; 30% preferred not to comment on this issue; 11% admitted they accept evolution but do not discuss it openly; the remaining 11% either believe in creationism and express it openly or do not discuss it openly.
