Sentence examples similar to pick in preference to from inspiring English sources

For those who regularly watch the Premier League, it will come as a surprise that the Tottenham Hotspur midfielder is picked in preference to Manchester City's Fernandinho.

Ruby Walsh, who was on board Shotgun Willy, is expected to pick him in preference to Ad Hoc at Liverpool, and said: "He will improve a bit and was never on the bridle.

The manager, picking Louis Saha in preference to Ruud van Nistelrooy, had put the accent on pace for a specific purpose.

The law governing fertility treatment is now being updated in a bill before Parliament, and using PGD to pick embryos with faulty genes in preference to those without them is to become illegal.

Emily Dickinson used the dash in preference to any other punctuation.

I have always worn a skirt in preference to trousers.

In preference-to-preference procedures, the outcome is a preference relation over the set of alternatives.

However, biases are only picked in preference over a previously calculated bias made by a smaller number of residue types, if their Pmin-values are smaller.

Where all PSM from a given HCMV protein could be explained either by a canonical gene or noncanonical ORF, the canonical gene was picked in preference.

Where all PSMs from a given HCMV protein could be explained either by a canonical gene or novel ORF, the canonical gene was picked in preference.

But it was his preference to pick the American ahead of Roy Carroll.