Sentence examples for plainly prefer from inspiring English sources

President Bush would plainly prefer not to use military force.

Nevertheless, Gerrard would plainly prefer his impact on this great tournament to be as a player, not as a counsellor.

Mr. DeLay's nominal superior, Speaker J. Dennis Hastert of Illinois, would plainly prefer to compromise with Mr. Clinton.

Such people plainly prefer the old "politics of the belly", which keeps them comfortably on the state payroll and hands out cash in return for their votes.

But Wisconsin pioneered conservative welfare reform in the 1990s, and its voters now plainly prefer divided government on the state level: Wisconsin currently has a Democratic governor, Jim Doyle, and a Republican-controlled state Assembly.

Besides, many details of this siege are bound up in too important a way with the story we have undertaken to tell for us to pass over them in silence" — as he would plainly prefer to do.

At the second performance in the run, the Met crowd plainly preferred the "Pagliacci," which is pleasing to the eye and vibrantly detailed.

He lives in a remote part of Ireland and plainly prefers a reclusive life, but, according to the press, he is only doing this for tax reasons.

He elegantly harmonizes aggressive works, each of which plainly would prefer to be the only one in the room.

Riyadh plainly would prefer to see Iran consigned indefinitely to membership in an "axis of evil" than engaged in direct and seemingly amiable negotiations with the U.S. secretary of State at a five-star Geneva hotel.

Put plainly, the MR2 prefers to be driven with finesse, not recklessness.