Avocados are so rich in cholesterol-free vegetable fat they've been called poor man's butter (I prefer the notion of vegetable foie gras).
Mr Hariri's camp, which includes right-wing Christians, liberals and, increasingly tenuously, the Druze faction led by a suave warlord, Walid Jumblatt, prefer the notion of Lebanon as a neutral, mercantile state.
She prefers the notion of "trained instinct", that quality which the author of a great novel has in abundance.
They, too, have cast it narrowly, as a matter of security (preferring the notion of police action to that of war).
He prefers the notion of "communitisation"—getting local communities to deal with water shortages by building and maintaining their own water tanks and other structures, usually giving their labour free.
This ignores the fact that feminists, both secular and religious, hold a variety of views on the manifestation of true equality, some preferring the notion of equality in difference, the not-particularly religious notion, advanced by Aristotle among others, that "justice consists not only in treating like cases alike but also in treating different cases differently".
Although some GPs commented in the last round that they would have preferred the notion of uncertainty to be included, it is still implied in statements 1a and 3 as "uneasy feeling", "worries" and "there is something wrong here" and in statement 5 as "secure feeling" and "uncertain about the diagnosis" (see Appendix 2: accepted statements).
They didn't want an actual fighter to represent the team, preferring instead the notion of fighting spirit.
Those who like the true two-hour drive from Manhattan (as opposed to the four-hour crawl in the summertime) and a relatively relaxed tasting-room experience (free from the throngs during harvest season) might prefer to keep the notion of visiting the wineries in winter a secret.
Roth himself has always preferred the German notion of maskenfreiheit to describe his fiction: "the freedom conferred by masks", using narrators to implement the novelist's get-out clause, that any resemblance his writing may have to his "true self" is entirely coincidental.
Ought we to prefer the disjunctive notion to the single threshold notion according to which the threshold condition is a necessary condition of harm?
