Sentence examples for preferable not to from inspiring English sources

Kerry says "it would be preferable not to": It would be preferable not to, not because there's any desire whatsoever to have boots on the ground... but in the event Syria imploded, for instance, or in the event there was a threat of a chemical weapons cache falling into the hands of al-Nusra or someone else...

In our view, it would have been preferable not to invite more countries to join NATO.

And it would be preferable not to have an economy in which millions of people have to invent marginal forms of employment because there are so few jobs.

However, for those of you who have mercury fillings it is preferable not to rush to the dentist's to have them out.

The revamp loses some of the dynamism and distinctiveness of the old, but it's preferable not to be asphyxiated and run over.

It would have been preferable not to have given viewers the impression that all the children had contacted the programme through the website".

These colors should be seen nowhere else on the coat and it is preferable not even to have these pigments on the ears.[citation needed] Although it is still permitted if they are light and barely noticeable.[citation needed].

It's also okay - and sometimes preferable - not to wear a fragrance.

"I think I'm going to vote for Nader," he said, but "as for the outcome, I feel it would be preferable for Bush not to be president".

Modality aspect of futures research: possible, probable and preferable futures are not to be mixed up.

It would therefore be preferable for Europe not to become entangled in further rearguard action.. (NL) With this report the European Parliament has again gone too far with regulation.