Sentence examples for power preferred to from inspiring English sources

Reading the roll of honour-refusers, one begins to understand why those in power preferred to keep it under wraps.

Mr. Greenspan was not inclined to use that power, preferring to adhere to a silly notion, shared apparently by the Treasury Department and by federal securities regulators, that market discipline would always and everywhere keep lenders — and the bankers who created derivatives based on the loans — in line.

He never advocated resistance to the European powers, preferring to embrace European civilisation and technology as a means of personal enrichment and in the service of African interests.

But if forced to choose between isolation and power, Mr Chávez might prefer to walk alone.

Once in power, he preferred to focus on his quest for Africanness.

House conservatives maintain that the Senate provision on tribal courts is a dangerous and unconstitutional expansion of tribal power, and they preferred to keep the bill silent on same-sex couples.

The predicting capability of these modeling approaches is compared and the Findley power law is preferred to be adopted.

Until recently the powers that be preferred to keep their selections private, however what has never been secret is the four-day jamboree's tendency to steal the thunder from two of its more glamorous counterparts on the festival circuit.

Although the BER curves could be plotted as functions of the classical signal-to-noise ratio (i.e., the ratio between the transmitted power and the noise power), we prefer to use the signal-to-noise ratio per bit, since it is more meaningful and coherent with the definition (8) of total degradation.

Opponents in Connecticut, generally business groups and power companies, said they preferred to wait for the next presidential administration, which is believed more likely than the current one to set limits on greenhouse gas emissions.

Former Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, in his memoir of the crisis, The Courage to Act, says that had it been within his power, he would have preferred to see more corporate executives head to jail, instead of just signing off on massive fines to the SEC and other agencies to settle allegations of wrongdoing.