Sentence examples for prefer to be able from inspiring English sources

I prefer to be able to identify what I'm eating.

Mr. Davis said Mr. McCain would obviously prefer to be able to accept the nomination in person.

I would prefer to be able to continue to enter my building and do my work, since what I do directly benefits students.

Oil companies prefer to be able to report to investors that they have acquired actual reserves for future production, but they have accepted similar agreements in other countries.

Noted French chef Alain Ducasse agreed, saying in a 2007 interview, I prefer to be able to identify what I'm eating.

All editors would prefer to be able to pay for holidays and send writers anonymously, but quite frankly very few publications have the budget to do this.

He preferred to be able to take a winter break during the school term, when hotel rates were lower.

I told him that most grownups preferred to be able to see a face, however frightening, to not being able to see a face.

I preferred to be able to quickly type numbers without using a function key.

During the conference session, the UE may want to suspend the service (it does not want to receive or transmit video streams and signaling messages for a time duration) while preferring to be able to return to the ALM group with the smallest delay afterwards.

Yet it was devastating at the time and a choice I would have preferred to be able to make myself.