He preferred rising in his own profession to the emoluments of the civil service.
Inflation got out of hand because central banks were under the thumb of politicians who preferred rising prices to higher joblessness.In this latest report the authors subject such controversies to painstaking cross-country forensics.
Among Americans, delayed gratification was the more popular approach, thus supporting the psychologists' hypothesis that Americans prefer a rising sequence in life.
I prefer the rising third grader's option: a space to list all the books she reads, along with "one thing you liked" and "one thing you didn't".
The accepted wisdom is that Americans prefer a rising sequence in life – that is, for stuff to get better, as opposed to starting out good and staying the same, or starting out fantastic and becoming less brilliant.
Many even prefer to rise early for bird watching.
Do you want to hike 8 miles a day at a relaxed pace while taking lots of pictures, while they want to push their limits and do 18? Do you like to sip coffee in the morning and hike into the night, while they prefer to rise at dawn and hit the trail?
In the peat, the shift can be seen as a distinct change in the ratio of various types of pollen, with grains from weed species that prefer open fields rising sharply at a certain horizon.
But since the earthquake, homebuyers prefer low-rise apartments, developers say, and are looking inland where ground tends to be firmer.
He and others have argued that Manhattan is a dinosaur in the decentralized era of the Internet, and that terrorism now gives people yet another reason to prefer low-rise communities like Silicon Valley.
Most people in Britain would prefer tax rises to cuts in the NHS, according to a poll by Ipsos-MORI.
