Sentence examples for prefer to prolong from inspiring English sources

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Like many civil-war leaders Mr Assad may prefer to prolong the fighting rather than risk compromise.

He sorted the homicides by type, since he had been told that serial killers often strangle or bludgeon their victims, apparently because they prefer to prolong the encounter.

That seems unlikely because several conservative Republicans who are most opposed to the president's immigration actions would prefer to prolong the fight.

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He declined to be interviewed for this article, preferring to prolong the speculation about his plans.

We preferred to prolong the incubation time to 2 h while lowering the dose to 5 μM, since this is known to activate intracellular TG2 (Jeong et al. 2009), and in our hands greatly increased the accumulated number of microparticles.

Religion did not influence patient admission and forego therapy; however, religious nurses compared with atheists and nonpracticing believers preferred to prolong therapy against the patient's will (P = 0.04).

I would prefer to take myself out before it's too late, so I can prolong my time on stage.

They prefer to "work with borrowers" through loan modifications and payment plans that present fewer accounting and earnings problems but fail to resolve and, thereby, prolong the underlying issues.

"We prefer to negotiate.

I prefer to wait.

I'd prefer to sue".

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