Sentence examples for prefer one thing to another from inspiring English sources

Intuitively, what this means is that there is no saying how much more strongly someone must prefer one thing to another in order to make up for the fact that someone else's preference is just the other way around.

"Everybody has their life experiences that make them prefer one thing over another -- it makes them prefer blond hair over a brunette; if you see somebody with dark skin walking down the street, you have a different reaction than you have [with] someone who is 5-foot-1 and white".

"If that many people really just prefer one thing, you really have to talk to each other to find out what you like otherwise it's such a guessing game," Herbenick said.

Insofar as RA is structured to instill such a preference, and insofar as to prefer is always to prefer one thing over some alternative, RA is essentially a project devoted to taste elevation in leisure activities.

Whichever look you prefer, one thing's for certain: Freida's come a long way since her "Slumdog Millionaire" days.

So bias is just preferring one thing over another.

Why compare one thing to another?

So shifting attention from one thing to another seems to be a problem.

I don't say one thing to one crowd and another thing to another crowd.

Why would we prefer one to another?

"It's one thing to say that and another thing to do that.