Sentence examples for prefer fighting from inspiring English sources

I do prefer fighting people.

Mr. Maye said he had picked up his hard-nosed ways from his father, a construction worker and labor leader also named Michael, who claimed to prefer fighting to eating.

The government has made a lot of mistakes this year, and yet because the party seems to prefer fighting their own leader than doing their jobs, the Tories have been let off scot free.

"I sometimes think that they prefer fighting over the choice of leader, because it is so much easier than agreeing on a doctrine," comments Dominique Reynié, a leading political scientist.To some extent, the French Socialists' problems match those of the mainstream left across Europe.

The centenary, which is being intensively marked in Ireland and among the diaspora, reaches a formal climax in the delicately choreographed state-sponsored events in Dublin on Sunday which are being snubbed by Sinn Féin and Northern Ireland unionists alike, who both prefer fighting old battles.

Accusations that ISIS prefer fighting other rebels to fighting the regime seem to have stung the group, who have responded by releasing ever-more-intense combat footage from their official Vimeo account.

Earlier this week, Galloway was criticised by the leader of Bradford council after giving an interview in which he allegedly admitted preferring fighting elections to serving as an MP.

Here is a less innocent, more physically robust Keats than the sickly boy of legend or Shelley's otherworldly Adonais; a pugnacious poet, who in childhood preferred fighting to reading; he was confident, sensual, sexually active, but also rootless, mercurial and morbid.

Curry and others in British government, including Wedgwood Benn, Secretary of State for India, preferred fighting violent rather than nonviolent opponents.

ISIS' need to hold land makes it much more vulnerable to the methods, training, and equipment of the U.S. military, which prefers fighting regular forces in the open to fighting terrorists in the shadows.

The Army's armored division has more manpower and far better tanks than its likely first adversary, but it does not have the very large numerical advantage that some military planners prefer before fighting.