The current leaders may well prefer to maintain their position, power and control.
Both sides would prefer to maintain a relationship that began when Jeter was drafted in 1992.
Instead they would prefer to maintain the products and make adjustments to promotions or advertising.
Most novelists prefer to maintain a distance between themselves and their characters; it preserves a veneer of sanity.
Many Taiwanese prefer to maintain the status quo while others lobby strongly to move toward formal independence.
Some of our team prefer to maintain good relations with the regime, and denied that there were snipers.
Among 15- to 19-year-olds, more than half prefer to maintain the status quo, with the most popular reason being that those under 18 lack life experience.
Interestingly, however, the majority of people I spoke to in the UK prefer to maintain their artistic independence rather than taking money from the state.
Yet he would prefer to maintain more privacy, and believes that knowing too much about an actor's life does no favours to his or her work.
In March, a survey found that 22% of South Koreans in their twenties would prefer to maintain the status quo, higher than any other age group.
According to a recently completed (not yet published) social impact study funded by the World Bank, Gobi nomads would largely prefer to maintain their traditional ways.
