Sentence examples for parties prefer from inspiring English sources

Our main purpose is to investigate the contract preferences for such a supply chain and to examine whether both parties prefer to keep contract type consistency over the two periods.

Political parties prefer "safe" districts to those that are competitive.

Politicians and their parties prefer to pretend they are the keepers of eternal verities.

Rather than work, the two parties prefer to spend their time in ideological combat, making points rather than policy.

Parties prefer to use the hard money they get from regulated contributions in combination with the unregulated soft money from rich individuals, unions and corporations.

Parity in parliamentary elections has been the rule in France for 13 years but the parties prefer the fines to more women.

Both main parties preferred Monday to see the Le Pen votes as a cry of pain.

Both parties preferred instead to keep the winner-takes-all system, though with some limited reforms.The PNC maintained its refusal to recognise the government, and sought justice in the courts.

But both parties preferred to pretend that we were seeing nothing more than the misconduct of a few rogue individuals — and torture barely came up for debate during the Presidential campaign.

Grillo's leading candidate in Sicily said the movement would not now be tempted by backroom alliances with other parties, preferring to be "bitter spinsters who never have boyfriends".

Suddenly, we seem to be headed back to where we started the year, before the Ryan budget and the president's quasi-budget and the whole drama of the debt-ceiling negotiation — with both parties preferring to punt the deficit to the next administration rather than take the painful steps necessary for a big bipartisan deal.