The preferred past tense is "sank".
In this second movie, directed by David Bowers, Greg must contend with his older brother, Rodrick (Devon Bostick), whose only preferred past-time to bullying his sibling is playing in his rock band, the amusingly named Löded Diper.
Asking people to select between different alternative models might yield information about which models people would prefer (and past evidence is that this is actually quite fragmented as a preference) but this does not directly provide any reliable indicator of acceptability.
Though he retired in 1974, he was the agency's institutional memory -- an unusual role at an institution that tends to prefer its past shredded.
Some Labor Day viewers may prefer television past, on Trio's season premiere of "Brilliant but Canceled," a series that resurrects episodes from canceled shows.
Archeologists who now argue that antiquities are better served in the dirt where they came from than dispersed among public museums like the Met imply that they prefer the past remain dead and buried.
Sure, Mubarak was deposed, the Muslim Brotherhood were ousted and General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi – who she seems to support, or at least prefer to past leaders – came into and remains in power.
Each day, 1,000 requests pour in from people who, for one reason or another, would prefer their pasts to be kept secret.
In a speech to newspaper editors, he said that thousands of requests to remove links to articles were pouring in to companies such as Google from people who "for one reason or another, would prefer their pasts to be kept secret".
Winston Churchill once said he "preferred the past to the present and the present to the future".
