Sentence examples for prefer safe from inspiring English sources

Political parties prefer "safe" districts to those that are competitive.

For example, sustained low interest rates hurt savers who traditionally prefer safe short-term investments.

There is plenty of money sloshing about, but investors prefer safe, tangible bets such as property and factories over putting their cash into high-risk start-ups.

The holders of subordinated debt, therefore, have an incentive to prefer safe, conservatively managed merchant banks.

Utilities and Beyond Judith A. Saryan and Charlie Gaffney, co-managers of Eaton Vance Dividend Builder, hunt for stocks in foreign markets, too, though they prefer safer fare than Mr. Alderson's portfolio.

In the U.K. and Europe the venture capitalists still prefer "safer" management buy-outs (where they fund a tried-and-tested management team to buy-out other investors) to true seed funding.

While foraging, animals often titrate food and safety from predation and prefer safer foraging options over riskier ones.

The song, which Murphy said feels to him like a revved-up version of Bowie's "Diamond Dogs," uses a wider melodic range than Murphy's preferred safe zone of three or four notes.

When selecting strategies, fire managers have displayed the discounting bias (overemphasizing short-term risk reduction over longer-term considerations), the status quo bias (reverting to suppressing all fires relative to allowing fires to burn for ecological considerations), and the loss aversion bias (preferring safe options when consequences are framed as potential gains) (Wilson et al. 2011).

Lately, investors seem to have preferred safer Treasuries to riskier corporate bonds.

The euro was expected to remain subdued against the dollar and the yen, with investors preferring safe-haven currencies, with weak earnings from top companies in the region weighing on investors.