Sentence examples for prefer the parent from inspiring English sources

They prefer the parent who lets them stay up later, lets them go out before completing homework, or doesn't insist that clothes be picked up off the floor.

If W. has to be supervised by officials who are in loco parentis, I would prefer the real parents.

Something similar could surely be done with the 44 dioceses of the C of E, which might then have 22 male and 22 female bishops acting equally as "parents-in-God" to their flocks, though some individual "sheep" would undoubtedly prefer the "voice" of one parent over the over.

We prefer the candidate siblings whose parent term is a suffix of this sibling.

Some parents prefer the power of letters.

Some parents prefer the child most like them, while others clash most with that child.

Even frightened toddlers who prefer the arms of their parents may still be persuaded to hug the au pair.

There is evidence that parents prefer the biggest, strongest, most charismatic child, and evidence that they prefer the smallest and weakest, the one who needs them most.

The film's richly detailed universe is entirely delightful: we see ads for "Zuber: Migration At Your Fingertips", and the kids groove to the torch-song stylings of Gazelle, while their parents prefer "the velvety pipes of Jerry Vole".

We also referred to Li and Zhang's (2008) method, incorporating gender minority as a variable to verify whether parents prefer the minority gender in children.

Most parents prefer the broad, one-time consent model of being asked once to give blanket consent to secondary use, or the tiered model of being asked once at the beginning to consent to secondary use and to give broad parameters on the type of research and researchers that they would want their data to be accessible to.